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.

decide to call it a night, unlike the guard I was shadowing...I had been up all day and now most of the night. If

the alpha home, I pause at the top

all day to see her driving me to

kept away, knowing how damn desperate he has been to see her. He's growing too attached, he's never

them boring, not her though. There is something about Red, something

check on her." He

"She's fine."

"You don't know that."

pack wide panic if their

I see for

was like this. Unnegotiable, stubborn...basically a prick. He'll have

let me

down by my side as I

door gently, I push it ajar to find the soft glow of the bedside lamp highlighting her red loose hair

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

can hear her deep sleeping breaths, her peaceful moans as she slightly stirs at

moves, a thigh escapes from underneath the bedding, her bruised and grazed skin making bile rise to the back of my throat. She hadn't