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.

my finger tips before trailing my hand up to his 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 still causing

hot anger starts to boil within me

I see

my wrist, his

in our way." His eyes seek into

to blame..what was Jaxon going to

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

whisper out as I blend the remedy into

you have nothing to apologize for. Compared to the emotional torment you've put me through...this...and this..." He points at his lip and at his eye

"..is nothing."

"So..."

He repeated, raising

"Emotional torment hmm?"

like." His chin tilts up just as I finished dressing his eye

now know, you're touching me in public..." I guess what I wanted to ask him was at what point will he duck out again. At what point will

as his hands move

now, let's get you back to

of rest...and I've