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

Chapter 0327

~Josie~

I felt like that 16 year old girl again. The one that had her entire life ahead of her.

The vague hope of having a wolf appear when she reached 18, still alive like a bright candle flickering within my core, my very centre. The one that thought she knew so much, that believed even then she was already a woman.

Three years later and I'm back to the night he rejected me in the nightclub. It's as if the past three years never really happened. My inner growth, my soul searching...all evaporated, gone in a split of a second. I'm 16 years old again.

Not only had he given me my first kiss, I now know he would be my first love. Perhaps my only love.

felt such a powerful connection to any other male than

had a wolf, I would think...but I don't and I know it is my mind trying to trick

partner...I don't know, maybe he has another. He just

maybe like he said, it was one sided. He got lost in desire, he wasn't thinking straight when he said those words. He

point proven. Maybe I should just count my losses and go back with him. At least to the outside world

in the long grass...the coolness of the night air now stinging at my skin but I don't feel it. I don't feel my body trembling with

background and Lobo's unmistakable panting, I turn to

at a steady pace before Lobo knocks into my legs, almost pushing me over. His warmth acting like an electric shock that travels directly to my heart,

sound right now I think I would wail, but the night's coldness has stolen my voice. He takes gentle steps towards me, the long grass nothing to this alpha male... it almost bends out of its way

into my neck. He's never seen me like this, and when I am unable to respond to his touch he howls up to