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

way upstairs in the alpha home, I pause at the top of the

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

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

just one night with them. Boring, he finds them boring, not her though. There is something about Red, something

check on her." He

"She's fine."

"You don't know that."

would have been a pack wide panic if their beloved princess was in

for myself that

a prick. He'll have me pacing the floor in the guest room until training if I don't check on

me get any

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

light glowing through the bottom gap of her door. Opening her door gently, I push it ajar to find the soft glow of the bedside lamp

be...unorganised and chaotic. Her burgundy bed spread should clash against the soft toned walls and beige carpet but she seems to make it work somehow. Gentle...but sexy hot. I take a step

peaceful moans as she slightly

her bruised and grazed skin making bile rise to the back of my throat.