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

Chapter 0385

"She did a great job, right Doc?" He playfully asks, trying to diffuse my rising paranoia. Taking the attention off me and onto him.

"Hmmm..." She shines a small torch into Kieran's eyes, assessing him for brain injury. She then places a stethoscope to his heart before placing it back around her shoulders seemingly satisfied. She turns to Knox and me, that stern look remaining until it breaks out into a smile and I can feel the tension melt away within me.

"You should...you clearly have a gift. We will check for a head wound, thank you Josie, I can take it from here."

"And Petra?" I turn to see Petra still breathing through the mask, watching me intently. Shit...she would have seen what had happened from there.

"I will of course make sure she receives the care she needs."

A hand snakes around my lower back and lands on my hip, gripping me into him.

I'm speechless...unable to comphrehend what just happened. My eyes peering down at the palm of my hands.

I let a finger touch one of them, the one that emitted a red glow to see if it was still hot, whether it had a trace of any heat left about it.

But nothing...just normal clammy hands.

Petra's, or hers mine until I am out of

to the Alpha house in complete silence, his gripping hand

Alora and Ezra, as they both call out to me

moving at the same speed as his, until we are in our room, and

floor as I slowly move backwards

was that?" He finally stops, his heated gaze

play dumb, hoping that I had been hallucinating. That he and in fact Petra, hadn't seen

glowed from your fucking

"I...I don't know."

ever

it was just some

"Reaction?"

had remnants of spice and herbs on my hands, maybe they reacted with the lagoon water...created a chemical reaction." Yes, yes that's what had happened. That would be the logical explanation, it had to be. "Josie..." His

eyes that I don't want to admit to

the soft skin...seemingly

it's me, you can tell me..." He closes the gap between us, his fingers now placing a stray of hair back behind my ear before it lands on my neck and stays. That pull between us as strong as ever, my wolf motioning in

could feel his