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.

well of the choice I was taking

right,

need to get out of here,

to wipe the gel off my stomach, placing my

I needed

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

lying to them, I

too in-deep now, and I have to remain on this runaway

crashes around

the bed. Wrapping the bedspread across me for comfort.

just have a panic attack?

but the struggling

to pound as if it was mimicking the beats of my

comfort in familiarity

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

see it is an unsaved

knowing immediately

wanted to

suppress a moan, why does he keep texting me. I told him I was safely home last night but only because he claimed he would phone the alpha office if

had met with Maya, and I certainly didn't want it to