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.

the news?" Her

news?" I ask

back..back at

my response, only for a sigh to

been all this time." Her voice is gentler this time. She's thinking she's the

you know? Shitting hell...you did didn't you...was he the

""What guy?"

I assumed you

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

voice is so low, almost like a whisper on the

shouldn't be telling anyone

"Locked in, I swear."

mean it Maya. You cannot tell a

ever want to

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

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

for how long. She'll know that between

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

close my eyes as

when I told him

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

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