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

Chapter 0347

-Josie-

I can't help but lean into his touch, my body moulding into his hold...those tingles at his touch feel even stronger somehow. He was warm and for some reason I was cold. So cold.

There was no doubt who was holding me, his potent scent was calling out to me...leather and sandalwood. I'd happily stay like this forever, within his hold and still in a dreamy state of mind.

"Josie?" A female's voice calls my name and for a brief moment my mind calculates what exactly must be going on.

If I was in the arms of Knox, and my Mum was witnessing...no that can't be right. We were secretive...this can't be real.

I have to be dreaming.

I hear Mum gasp as my eyes open and I manage to focus around me, my vision sharper than usual. My entire family are standing over me and I know instantly something had to be wrong, because their eyes were teary, their faces were death-like...pale as ghosts. "What's going on?" I hoarsely say, grabbing at my throat as pain explodes in the area. It was sore, it hurt to talk..to even swallow.

"We thought we lost you.." Mum leans in, her arms cupping at my face before she starts to smother me with kisses on my cheeks.

search their eyes, the severity of my

You were shot by silver bullets..." Knox softly speaks next to me as he places a lingering kiss

at his public display of affection...in front of my brothers, in

character motion,

Dad proudly declares as he makes

memory was hazy but slowly coming back to

shift in discomfort, my movement alarming Knox next to me as my hands

for a small bin only for the nausea to pass as soon as it came. With

and I

triplet connection with him I would question if he was an imposter...tattoos climbed up his neck like a vine and were even branded across

question whether it

at your eyes." Mum squeals, her hands moving to cover her mouth.

her response, thinking that my eyes must have been damaged. But rather than look at me with pity, he looks at

He pulls his phone out of his pocket, placing the camera on