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

Chapter 0497

It doesn't mean that he would leave his mate for me, and I wouldn't want him to be with me just because of the baby.

To spend my life loving someone who felt trapped by my side? No thank you, I would rather do this alone.

As Sophia places the monitor on, my chest becomes constricted, the sudden realisation dawning upon me that I am going to be a single mother.

An overwhelming impending sense of fear that clouds my mind.

In all honesty, I felt like a fraud. A bad mum before even having the baby. As soon as the baby appears on the screen it will be all too real, and I'm not ready. I'm not prepared.

"Can we stop." I shout out, unable to breathe. My chest continuing to tighten as the air I inhale doesn't seem to have any oxygen in it. I was suffocating from the inside out, it's the only way to explain it. "What's going on?" Dad's asks as Sophia helps me to sit up, her eyes watching me carefully.

"Cleo?"

"I can't...I'm sorry I thought I was ready for this but I'm not." I pant out, pain now registering in my heart.

In truth I'm not ready to ask myself if what I am doing is the right thing for the baby, or for me.

"We can take a break, you can come back in a few times. I know this is all very overwhelming." Sophia tries to calm me as she rubs my back...encouraging me to take small deep breaths.

That was an understatement. It was one thing to think I can do this alone, without him...but to then actually do something without him, without giving him a choice.

my baby knowing full well of the choice I was taking

this wasn't right,

of here, I can feel the walls closing

the gel off my stomach, placing my hoodie back

needed space, I needed time to

for Mum and Dad. They will have questions and I need to give myself that breathing space

them, I

and I have to

it crashes around

room, I rest my body on the bed. Wrapping the bedspread across

just have a

one before but the struggling to breathe,

chest, the way my vision started to pound as if it was mimicking the beats of my heart. He

in familiarity of my bedroom. Take slow deep

my bed stand, thinking it would be Dad trying to get a hold of me because I have closed off my

see it is

it, knowing immediately who the sender is. Alpha

to check

him I was safely home last night but only because he claimed he would phone the alpha office

Dad to know I had met with Maya, and I certainly didn't want it to be known