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 excited

news?" I ask

back..back at Dark

waits for my response, only for a

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

hell...you did didn't you...was he

""What guy?"

assumed you stayed

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

low, almost like a whisper on the other end of the

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

"Locked in, I swear."

cannot tell a

silent, because her and Josie are best friends. I wouldn't ever want

I need to

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

and for how long. She'll know that between him and a human bartender, it would have been

phone line, but I still need to see her. A promise is better made face to face.

eyes as I

I

of Jace's location, painfully flashes back in my mind. Josie will be even more hurt, she will hate me, that I know

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