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."

out, he must be what in his mid forties, if she was a younger mother she

had plenty of time to find his mate

of your own, to find your

my mate is

sorry to

Just think of it, you...a luna...your child being raised by an alpha to protect a pack that will be

"It won't?"

niece to your brother, they would be alpha themselves." "Boy or girl." My eyes narrow at him, was this offer depending on me having a male

it's time the shifter community recognised female 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

deny

be offering my child a different future, a future where they

should be anyway.

from them. It

within me, why did he not speak to

Dad...why don't you speak to him?" My tone isn't

be related to people but have different views in life, different opinions. Just because you share a percentage of blood doesn't mean you have to be in each other' lives. Sometimes it's family that hurt us the most." He shrugs out, his eyes moving to the window where

lot to take in." I break his

before you say no...give it some thought.

a title of luna and

vel.

my pack...few babies can

protection even before the

born."

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