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.

He jabs me

I am letting on. He doesn't know I feel everything at the moment, that my

him about my burn with the

to tell you Jace. I would have come

out, you 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

Jace, a hotel girl. Some female you picked up at the bar, a dirty little secret?" I was finally letting

and then ran out, bringing home another girl. He was almost speechless, his words struggling to come out. "I

Not any more.

"I want you.."

mistress, a dirty secret. I should have gotten into that lift, I should have gone

my shoulders painfully, shaking me slightly to make me

"No."

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

with the plea in his tone, he was only asking

I also needed myself but there was something about him, something that didn't seem

myself...I can give him time, surely can give him some time. He needed to do right by his mate, he

warm and protective...of everyone. He needed to make sure she

can give him time, for the sake of our baby, I

can give you time, If you are