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."

she was a younger

still had plenty of time to find his

still have time to produce an heir of your own, to find your mate." I

my mate is

I'm so sorry to hear

Just think of it, you...a luna...your child being raised by an alpha to protect a pack that will be theirs. That won't be

"It won't?"

more than nephew or niece to your brother, they would be alpha themselves." "Boy

alphas. You yourself are first born are you not? Why shouldn't you be luna of your own pack, why shouldn't you have a say in the future of a pack." Leading a pack has never been a dream of mine,

deny

be offering my child a different future, a

should be anyway.

title wouldn't be taken from them. It

I have this nagging feeling within me, why did

My tone isn't

doesn't mean you have to be in each other' lives. Sometimes it's family that hurt us the most." He shrugs out, his

lot to take in." I break his

think about it, before you say no...give

would you say no to a title of luna and an alpha

vel.

pack...few babies

protection even before the

born."

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