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

Chapter 0325

- Knox ~

She's recoiling from me, I can see the pain in her expression. My wolf is howling at me, thrashing at me internally to stop talking, to accept her, to take her as ours.

But I can't...how can I keep her safe, keep her away from the destruction that still follows me today.

She doesn't have a wolf, and I really don't care...it doesn't make her any less special to me.

She is perfection, except for the fact that she can't defend herself against the atrocities that I have witnessed with my own eyes.

If my father couldn't protect my own mother, who was a fierce warrior in her own right, what hope is there for me to protect Red.

Far better for her that she stays here, stays with her family...who will always keep her safe.

no need to fight...no need for the external shifter community to know she is

with her last night, it wouldn't take her long to replace me if she does want a future with somebody. Far better a beta, they could move here and

wolf angrily growls at me as my hands lace around her, pulling

I don't want

can't give

break it later on, and hurt her

never forgive you. She is mine." His demonic voice growls out to me from the darkness

to

almost 20 years ago. If you deny me her I'll make the rest of your life a living hell." He threatens. I could survive that, survive his daily torture...what I couldn't survive is something happening to her because of me.

to not show any signs of the hurt I am causing her. That I am inflicting on to her. But

inhaling her scent to momentarily calm my wolf. It doesn't work, he isn't so easily

and I drop my arms again, her