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

Chapter 0409

- Josie -

"What's going on?"

Knox approaches me as I step out of the front door with Lobo, he has his spare motorcycle helmet in his hand.

"Let's go for a ride!" A charming smile lands across his face, his brown eyes the strongest they've looked in days.

"A ride, right now? Dad would have a fit!" I laugh out only to stop myself when I realise he is being completely serious. "Knox, the borders aren't safe."

"Then it's a good thing I want to take you out of the borders." He places the helmet in my hands before heading back towards his bike.

The engine roaring to life under his touch.

I start shaking my head at him, only to see that determined look in his eyes return and the alpha office door open hastily from behind. If I was to go, it would be now.

bottom lip, I place the helmet over my head and follow in his footsteps, placing my leg over the back

to wink at

pushing on my mind-link, he just missed us. I push back, I knew I shouldn't be leaving, but I knew I would be safe with Knox. I let him unwind, let the tension in his back and shoulders release as he drives us through the

to the pack link, if I needed to, I could mind-link still...a fact I'm

lanes where we are surrounded

pulls up in a layby where his hands move on to me, his fingers snaking around my hips as I find myself lifted and placed in front of him...now

dark brown eyes brooding with unsaid emotion. Air

I love you?"

my neck where he untightens

hair, his eyes watching me with sultry

The contradiction to his last sentence

“Charming.."

I would spend the rest of my life living in fear of something happening to them, and then trying to survive after losing the mate bond." "You

entire family were killed before my very eyes...I don't think I can survive that again." I'm frozen, both through choice and involuntarily. If I

a day. I witnessed it all, I