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

Chapter 0484

- Cleo ~

Josie keeps trying to call me and for the first time since forever, I'm not answering.

I need time to think, time to put a plan in place.

Jaxon knows, my attempts to persuade him that the baby is human may have worked on my parents, but he could sense the child was related to him.

Which means...I haven't got a lot of time. His out-of-the-blue arrival yesterday means I need to speed things up.

I haven't got the luxury of time like I thought I would. I wanted time to adjust, time to let my body get used to be pregnant.

But now I need to act...before I am truly ready.

Time to think how I can stop Jace finding out...that's if Jaxon hasn't already said something.

Hence, why I can't bring myself to answer Josie's call...what if she also knows.

She doesn't, he wouldn't have done that...I made it very clear I would leave.

As my phone starts ringing again, I cast my eye down...surprised to find that it is no longer Josie but Maya calling.

"Maya?" I answer it without hesitation.

you heard the news?" Her

news?" I

is back..back

she waits for my response, only for a sigh to escape

That's where he had been all this time." Her voice is gentler this time. She's thinking she's the one breaking the news, she's trying to ease me into it. Until

did

""What guy?"

assumed you stayed away with the

need to stop her mind from running away with her because she was too close to the

is so low, almost like a whisper on

telling anyone but she's already found out too

"Locked in, I swear."

mean it Maya. You cannot tell a

her and Josie are best friends. I wouldn't ever want to put her in a position

to see her, I need to press the point of how important it is that she doesn't say

the bartender to Josie, and when it comes out that I am pregnant...and was at Jace's hotel, it will be too coincidental for Jace not to be

much I have loved him and for how long. She'll know that between him and a human bartender,

but I still need to see her. A promise is better

eyes as I confirm

I told him

for the past two months of Jace's location, painfully flashes back in my mind. Josie will be even more hurt, she will

V card...not the bartender?" She gasps,