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?" Her

I

is back..back at Dark

waits for my response, only for a sigh to escape

the hotel we stayed in for 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 me into it.

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

""What guy?"

you stayed away

I need to stop her mind from running away with

so low, almost like

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

"Locked in, I swear."

cannot tell a soul,

wouldn't ever want to put

see her, I need to press

I don't, she'll mention the bartender to Josie, and when it comes out that I am pregnant...and was at Jace's hotel, it will be too coincidental for Jace not to be

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

She promises me down the phone line, but I still need

close my eyes as

when I told him that

my mind. Josie will be even more

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