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.

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

home, I pause

wolf demands in my mind, his need all day to see her driving me to the point of almost

the reasons I have kept away, knowing how damn desperate he has been

one night with them. Boring, he finds them boring, not her though. There is something about Red, something in her taste, in her scent that makes him

her."

"She's fine."

"You don't know that."

a pack wide panic if their beloved princess was

not until I see for myself that she

was no point arguing him, not when he was like this. Unnegotiable, stubborn...basically a prick. He'll have me pacing the

won't let me

I move

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 a pile of pillows and

beige carpet but she seems to

her deep sleeping breaths, her peaceful moans

and grazed skin making bile rise to