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.

had time to tell me you were pregnant." He jabs me back, in the upper corner

strong, it actually hurts more than I am letting on. He doesn't know I feel everything at the moment, that

about my burn

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

had plenty of

how I had waited...then you left me alone. Left me to wake up alone in your penthouse, made me feel

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,

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

Not any more.

"I want you.."

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

me....I love you." He grips my shoulders painfully, shaking me slightly

"No."

I want to be with

with the plea in his tone, he

needed myself but there was something about

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

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

can give him time, for the sake of our

you time, If