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

Chapter 0499

"No, I have no mate." For once, the truth.

"I see."

"No you don't actually...the father is a human."

A moment is shared between us where he is considering me, and I him.

He seems to be contemplating something, his eyes pulling away first as he exhales loudly, casting his eyes back over the patrons.

He was a difficult male to read, to figure out. Each movement, each word of his is premeditated, pre-planned. Why was he worried about speaking out of term?

"I'm looking for a luna and an heir. My pack's future relies on me providing them we an heir."

"But the child wouldn't be yours, the heir would be half human."

"That doesn't matter to me."

"It doesn't matter that the child not only won't be yours, but would be half human?" I need to hear him say it again, because he was an alpha male and I'm struggling to think he would adopt not only a child that wasn't a pack member, but a child that was half human...or so I have to make him believe.

"I don't think you understand the severity of my situation. I have no heir, my father is already dead...I would like my mother to see the pack is secure before she dies." His tone is more clipped this time.

"Your mother is sick?" I ask, thinking maybe he was up against time.

"No, just growing old."

forties, if she was a younger mother she would only be in her mid

still had plenty of time to find his mate and

an heir of your own, to find your mate." I offer out to

mate is

sorry to hear

being raised by an alpha to protect a pack that will be theirs.

"It won't?"

your brother, they would be alpha themselves." "Boy or girl." My

you have a say in the future of a pack." Leading a pack has never

deny his proposition

future, a future where they would be an heir...when

should be anyway.

wouldn't be taken from them. It would be theirs,

nagging feeling within me, why did he not

don't you speak to him?" My

doesn't mean you have to be in each other' lives. Sometimes it's family that hurt us the

to take

you say no...give

to a title of luna and an alpha poor your child.

vel.

by myself and my pack...few babies

protection even before the

born."

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