Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond

Chapter 0278

"Hey, when is your friend leaving..." I angrily grunt out, barely looking up from my phone.

"Friend?" Jace stops in his tracks, assessing my mood. He had a way of understanding my emotions...call it the triplet sibling link. But Jace had always been in more tune with it than Jaxon, or so that's how it seemed. "Knox?"

"He's staying longer now, Dad blew his top when he heard what the warriors have been up to. Did you have any idea?"

"No of course not." I tut out, rolling my eyes before hearing a car approach towards us.

I'd recognise that car anywhere...a Red Thorn pack SUV, which meant Luna Rosa was returning home. Rosa was Beta Riley's sister and she was the Luna of the Red Thorn pack, where Uncle Orpheus was the Alpha. The car pulls up beside Jace and I, the window rolling down to a tattoo covered Alpha. His eyes scan me, before his eyes darken.

"Who do I need to kill?" Uncle Orpheus seethes.

"What?"

out on it, but my entire body was tense, my hands clenching around my phone. "Josie doesn't like our guest..." Jace steps infront of me, bending down as he looks into

"Hey Ares. No Cleo?"

she will join us later. What house guest?" Uncle Orpheus responds looking back

used to play with us a lot as children. Even now, I consider her more like a sister than a cousin. A sister that has different parents and lives in a different pack... "Our trainer, Knox. He and Josie seem

start only to cut off as Orpheus cuts the car's engine..his eyes

we were born. Rosa was a pack member here until she was marked by Orpheus and moved away with him. Yet, her parents and brother remained here, so she visits a lot. Which I love, as does Mum. She

give me the word, and I'll sort him out..." Uncle Orpheus gives me a dark look before a small smile edges onto the corner of

scary looking with his arms, chest and neck covered in tattoos...but under that fierce looking exterior, he was protective and

hair, her signature floral patterned dress on as she embraces Jace and moves onto

hands remain on my cheeks as she looks

honestly Auntie Rosa, nothing I

doubt that." She smiles

Ares's shoulder as he picks up some of their bags. Ares was thirteen

surrounded by alpha blooded wolves, I keep my breathing calm...they would notice a