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

Chapter 0309

"I will do."

"So what's your background?"

This is why I preferred the alpha house, less questions about my own past. I get it, I was the visitor, the one everyone wants to get the dirt on.

"I was a bit of a drifter until I started the program...you?" I vaguely respond.

"Born and raised here." He proudly smiles out as he reaches aross the table for the salt and pepper.

I would be wasting my time in trying to find information out from Riley. Not only was he the pack's beta but being born and raised here, his loyalty to the alpha family would be unwavering. As it should be. "How long are you here for?" Riley asks just as one of the guards I was shadowing tonight gives me the sign that he was going back to his post.

"Not long, the new intake will start soon and I'll have to be back for that." I stand up, picking up my tray and placing it on the cleaning trolley.

"Well if I can do anything to help whilst you're here..." Beta Riley offers out before I leave.

"Will do." I call back to him before exiting.

been up all day and now most of the night. If I had any chance of getting up at 6am for training, I needed to call it

alpha home, I pause at the top

my mind, his need all day to see her driving

also one of the reasons I have kept away, knowing how damn desperate he has been to see her. He's growing too attached, he's never been

There is something about Red, something in her taste, in her scent that makes him want more. "No." I fight

her."

"She's fine."

"You don't know that."

a pack wide panic if their beloved princess was in

for myself that she is

a prick. He'll have me pacing the floor in the guest room until training if I

won't let me get

into tiny balls down by my side as I move towards her room, my eyes roaming

the bottom gap of her door. Opening her door gently, I push it ajar to find the soft glow of the bedside lamp highlighting her red loose hair mixed with

toned walls and beige carpet but she seems to make it work somehow. Gentle...but sexy hot. I take a step in, closing that gap

breaths, her peaceful

moves, a thigh escapes from underneath the bedding, her bruised and grazed skin making bile rise to the back of my throat. She