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

Chapter 0496

-Josie -

I'm quiet as I move out of my bedroom not wanting to alert the household that I was heading out.

It was still early and being a Sunday, no training was scheduled.

There was no reason for anyone to be up early on a pack-wide rest day. Unless you were on border patrol.

As long as I tip toe down the stairs, avoiding the creaking steps...I should make it out without being

heard.

But as I make it half way down the stairs, a sigh escapes me...both Mum and Dad are at the bottom waiting for me. "Can we come?"

"How did you find out?" I stop a few steps from them, unable to hide the bite in my tone. They didn't deserve it, but I was irritated that they had found out.

"I told you, the hospital has policies to follow." Which is code for, Sophia told Dad.

I sigh internally, there was no point hiding any of my prenatal appointments with them, Sophia was going to tell them each time now anyway.

the system as it were. Not a lot will happen." I try to

to be there

"Really?"

"Yes, of course."

my chest, yes...yes I would like that. I want them to be with me. This is their

out, my emotions once again flipping over. I was like a yoyo at the moment, still reeling from Jaxon's intrusion, from the hole in my wall. But I needed to push my anger with him aside, this was a special moment, one my parents want to be included on. "You mean that?" Mum takes a step towards me, her hand placing out to help me down the stairs. I was pregnant not incapable of walking the last few steps

would like you both to be there

feels peculiar, to be sitting in the doctor's office with my parents. I wasn't a child anymore, I was an adult growing my own child. Yet, I needed them...I didn't want to be alone. No matter what I

worried about the unknown path I had now entered on...scared about

do this I know I can, so what is holding me back. Mum and Dad sit in silence,

pregnancy vitamins that I need to take daily as

form upon her brow...she was more

my arm.

which I think she was more grateful for than me, Dad was already almost lunging out of his

works quietly, not giving anything away as she continues to give me a full health check and write down the

I am finally laying back on the bed, my relatively flat stomach covered in some

don't think

should be here, he should be a part of