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.

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

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

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

would have come to the hotel if

I've reached out, you had plenty

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

at the bar, a dirty little secret?" I was finally letting

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, I can see that now." My

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

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

"No."

to be with you, don't do anything you will

plea in his tone, he

needed myself but there was something about him, something

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

everyone. He needed to make sure

for the sake of our baby, I can give him

can give you time,