Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond

Chapter 0490

"Protect from what?"

"From you...from your family."

"I wouldn't hurt the baby." The colours runs off his face as if I had just slapped him.

"No, I know that. But the baby will be the heir to the Clear Waters until you have a real baby with your mate.."

"A real baby.." He chuckles out finding my paranoia laughable. Well he is the only one.

I take a further step back from him, anger radiating through me. Always pushed aside by him, always

ignored for no fault of my own.

"Don't laugh at me." I seethe out, hot molten anger racing through me.

"I'm sorry, I'm not laughing at you. You must know how much I love you Cleo, how much I want to be with you. Since the hotel..." Again he tries to close that gap between us. My back almost touching the brick house wall.

"Since the hotel you've had plenty of time to tell me that you have another. You let me find her almost naked in your bedroom..." My finger jabs into his chest, pure anger in my voice.

you were pregnant." He jabs me back, in the upper corner of my chest...just before my

I am letting on. He doesn't

have failed to tell him about my burn with

to tell you Jace. I would have come to the hotel if you hadn't text back

had plenty of times to

you realise what that night meant to me, how I had waited...then you left me alone. Left me to wake up alone in your penthouse,

a hotel girl. Some female you picked up at the bar, a dirty little secret?" I was finally letting out two month's of anger, two month's

shouldn't have tasted me and then ran out, bringing home another girl. He was almost

Not any more.

"I want you.."

can't have me, not when you have another. I won't be a mistress, a dirty secret. I should have gotten into that lift, I should have gone downstairs

shoulders painfully,

"No."

against it. I want to be with you, don't

in his tone, he was only asking for

I also needed myself but there was something about him, something that

give him time, surely can give him some time. He needed

protective...of everyone. He needed to make sure she was safe, that she

sake of our

you time,