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

back..back at

waits for my response, only for

stayed in for your 18th...that was his hotel. That's where he had been all this time." Her voice is gentler this

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

""What guy?"

you stayed away with the waiter,

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

voice is so low, almost like a whisper on the

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

"Locked in, I swear."

Maya. You cannot tell a soul, not

want to put her in a position that would ruin her

already knows too much. I need to see her, I need to press the point of

to Josie, and when it comes out that I am pregnant...and was at

loved him and for how long. She'll know that between him

soul." She promises me down the phone line, but I still need to see

eyes as I confirm her

I told

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

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