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.

news?"

news?" I ask

is back..back at Dark

as she waits for my response, only for a sigh

your 18th...that was his hotel. 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

hell...you did

""What guy?"

assumed you

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

it him?" Her voice is so low, almost like a whisper on the other end

I shouldn't be telling anyone but she's already found out too

"Locked in, I swear."

cannot tell a

ever want

I need to see her, I need to press the point of how

am pregnant...and was at Jace's hotel, it will be too coincidental for Jace not to be involved.

long. She'll know that between him and a human

still need to see her. A promise is better made

my eyes as I confirm

when I told him that

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,