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

Chapter 0280

- Knox ~

Why is fate tormenting me? I'm meant to be keeping my distance, not watching her dance like a sexy vixen across the dance floor in a knock out dress. A dress that only highlights her red hair even more.

I regret coming, because watching her and not be able to touch her is fucking with my mind.

It doesn't help that her brother, the one that usually lifts even the darkest of soul's spirits, is drinking himself into oblivion. I don't know what is going on with him all of a sudden, as soon as that blonde arrived during the meal...it's like he's had a personality shift. "Another?" He grunts at me as he refills our shot glasses.

"What's up pal?"

"Nothing." He sneers, his eyes darting to the blonde on the dance floor before he downs his shot, refilling it instantly.

could have fooled

going to be the one to babysit a drunken Jace and carry his

it a night when the dick Red seems to have allowed herself to become attached to walks into

I'll stay for a few more drinks after

of me. My eyes roam the length of her, she looked good enough to eat tonight. But then again she looks hot in

lover boy is coming over." I callously say, as I look over her shoulder. My demeanour is stony, but it's nothing to the steely expression that forms upon her face and the perfected timed reply that stabs

he takes what he wants. Perhaps he'll dampen that achey fire between my thighs tonight." Anybody else might be gobsmacked by what she has just said, but not me. She knows how to hit back, and she hits back hard. Just the thought of him in

glass, any firmer and it will smash in my palm. My jaw tenses at her words, anger flashes from my wolf at

for a reaction, this game between us I was currently losing. I take another shot, before biting

touching her and all I can do is watch on,

shot that follows burns at the back of my throat, and I welcome the relief from the burning

Red's friend Maya climbs up on the bar stool next