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.

heard the news?"

I ask

back..back at Dark

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

gentler this time. She's thinking she's the one breaking the news, she's trying to ease me into it. Until she realises...there is a

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

""What guy?"

waiter. I assumed you stayed

to stop her mind from running away with her because she

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

shouldn't be telling anyone but

"Locked in, I swear."

it Maya. You cannot

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

she already knows too much. I need to see her, I need to press

mention the bartender to Josie, and when it comes out that I am pregnant...and was at Jace's hotel, it will be

that between him and a human bartender,

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

close my eyes as I confirm her

I told

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

She gasps,