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.

a powerful connection to any other male than I do

tingles, nobody gives me that undeniable gravitational pull to be with them. If I had a wolf, I would think...but I don't and I know it is my mind trying

mate. My soul's recognition of its true partner...I don't know, maybe he

said, it was one sided. He got lost in desire, he wasn't

actually want me. Well here I am, his point proven. Maybe I should just count my losses and go back with him. At least

night air now stinging at my skin but I don't feel it. I don't feel my body trembling with ice coldness as the moon has taken

I hear a whistling in the background and Lobo's unmistakable

travels directly to my heart, forcing me to wake up from my frozen

as soon as Dad calls out to me, I break down. My knees falling beneath me. If I could make a sound right now I think I would wail, but the night's coldness has stolen my voice.

seen me like this,