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.

with the best protective gear but it

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

him

in a sort of fixated state until the

I don't give him the chance to

what I think she

Otherwise it

These hunters have invaded his

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

hunter to dive out of the way, pulling

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

shifts back...his wolf relenting full control as

scream echos through the meadow, the

to get

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