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

Chapter 0399

- Knox -

The bullets were not silver...that at least was something.

I watch in horror as a bullet hits Kaia, knocking her to the ground. Images of me holding a weeping Josie flit through my mind. How am I going to tell her...how am I going to break her heart.

Only for relief to quickly wash over me as Kaia stands back up, the hit a flesh wound on her upper arm and she jumps back into another fight.

I'm not given time to pause, to be grateful that my mate's mother remains alive...the bullets keep flying above our heads.

I'm in my wolf form, the bullets whizzing past my wolf's ears constantly. I don't know how we haven't been hit yet, luck...pure luck.

Even being normal bullets, a shifter cannot survive a hit to the head...which is the fate of many already here in the meadow.

A line of hunters stand behind those that have taken the forward position. They fire openly at us all, as the others try and survive our wolves.

without a doubt humans. They were suited up with the best protective gear but it made no difference...nothing would stop our fangs and

to have the mind-link to Josie, to make sure she is staying in the Alpha house. She promised but I know her, she has that innate need to protect the ones she loves. To fight for them. "Knox, behind you!" Kaia shouts out at my wolf just as a hunter fires a gun at me from behind. With her warning, I manage

wolf roars with such venom that it seems to immobilise him

in a sort of fixated

give him the chance to recover...my hands easily ripping through his

she did...did

their numbers, their bullets not having the impact they would expect...not without being silver. Otherwise it would be a complete massacre. Jaxon and Jace are trained,

tearing through skin. These hunters have invaded

wolf covered in blood when I hear an almighty roar. I turn to find Hector's wolf blocking Kaia from an assault of bullets...where they hit him

pulling out a silver dagger and stabbing it into Hector's chest. Kaia kills the hunter in the blink of an

chance to celebrate his achievement. He's taken down the notorious Dark

control as his body falls to

me as Kaia's scream echos through the meadow, the wolves of the Dark Phantom pack stepping up

get

his side and place my hand over the burning silver dagger and painfully pull it from his body. I toss it away, as far as I can as if it were a grenade about to explode. "Hector?" Kaia calls out to him as she continues to fight, her eyes