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

Chapter 0354

- Josie -

His arm brushes against mine, his breath already on my neck. Tingles erupt across my skin as I watch him reach for the jar and place it down in front of me.

I don't even turn, I know who it is. It is only his scent that would cause such a reaction from my body. A reaction that seems more intense all of a sudden, even harder to fight.

"I knew doctors made the worse patients." My head rolls back exposing more of my neck to him. Suddenly his voice had the potential to command me. I'm not saying I wouldn't fight it, but to fight it would be a struggle.

His voice had a new tone to it, a new weight behind it...something I couldn't quite understand. Something I didn't really want to understand. I just didn't want this feeling of complete rapture to ever end. I was going to enjoy this new Knox for as long as I had him. I'd worry about the heartbreak at a later stage.

"Technically I'm not a doctor." I continue to lean into him, my back curling into his chest as my wolf pushes forward. She seemed to like Knox, so far he was the only male that she would leap forward for. However she has only, through my eyes, seen the men in my family or Doctor Abel. So there wasn't much competition.

"You should be resting...not working." His fingers lace around my waist.

"I'm not working...I wanted to fix what my brother caused." I turn, now pressed against my work top and his brick wall of a body.

"It's nothing, nothing I can't handle and nothing I didn't deserve."

No, he didn't deserve this. Never would he deserve this.

eye to touch. He doesn't flinch from my touch but he does close his eye and tense his jaw, a sign that it was

molten hot anger starts to

I see

the side of my wrist, his head

our way." His eyes seek

I won't let this go. It wasn't fair, I was just as much to blame..what was Jaxon going to do...hit me as well? No, then why does he think it is okay

you are here now, in my nest of remedies..." I hoist myself up on the worktop, pulling him in closer to me and wrapping my legs around him to trap him close to me. He doesn't fight against me in fact his lips are almost on mine before I place a small amount of my remedy at the corner

out as I blend the

me through...this...and this..." He points at his lip and at his

"..is nothing."

"So..."

repeated, raising an eyebrow at

"Emotional torment hmm?"

hell more like." His chin tilts up just as I finished

now? Because since waking up...things have suddenly gone full speed. My family now know, you're touching me in public..." I guess what I wanted to ask him was at what point will he

He smirks at me as his hands move around my lower back to

let's get you

of rest...and I've