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.

pregnant." He jabs me back, in

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

tell him about my burn with the pizza as he spilled my most

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

I've reached out, you had plenty

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, made me

you Jace, 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 of frustration...and

it is finally dawning on him that he shouldn't have treated me like that. How he shouldn't have tasted me and then ran out, bringing home another girl. He was almost speechless, his words struggling to come out. "I was naïve,

Not any more.

"I want you.."

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

shoulders painfully,

"No."

just tried to fight against it. I want to be with you, don't do anything you will

with the plea in his tone,

was something about him,

give him some

protective...of everyone. He needed to make sure

can give him time, for the sake of our

can give you time,