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

Chapter 0519

- Cleo -

I'm not home twenty minutes before I hear my parent's car pulling up outside.

I'm pacing the floor of my bedroom, the toxic mixture of both guilt and anger threatening to erupt out of me.

She caught us, his own mate caught us together.

My lips could still taste his on me, even now. One moment I was in heaven, the next in hell. Callie's and Josie's interruption would have pulled us apart; however, he had already pulled away from me.

He had already rejected me.

How could I have been so weak, yet again I allowed my feelings for him to get the better of me. To lose control.

I had gone to the cabin for a moment's peace, to collect myself before returning back to the

dinner table.

I just needed to regain my strength.

Jaxon had already easily extracted the truth from me; he found me in a moment of weakness...nausea completely taking over me.

I agreed I would tell Jace tomorrow, once the

celebrations were over...I just needed to get him alone.

Which I did, I had him alone.

why didn't I find the strength to pull away

the allure to him was just too strong. His coconut scent polluted the cabin and like a drug I

of guilt forces itself through me again at the flashback of her reaction.

shocked...so appalled. I touched what

me is like a demon, each time I try to make sense of what had just

control...only for

came after me, wasn't he the one that touched me first. I believe it was his lips that thrusted on to

hotel, I was willing to leave...but it was he that refused to let me

up to me, my

stopped in front of my mirror,

temporarily forgotten as she tries to stop me from spiralling. "I'll be down in a minute." I call

confident...I knew my life's plan before this

family were supportive...they were going to

Jaxon knows for

thread after

Know everything.

then my entire

will never forgive

I refuse to take the complete blame. Twice now he has put me in a position I didn't ask for. For someone that has a mate,

seeking me out.

into my bedroom... finding me staring at myself in the mirror. "Nothing." My

You just completely humiliated us." Mum pushes past Dad, forcing her way into my bedroom where Dad tries to reach out to pull her back. Her

I seethe out, refusing

of there. Heaven knows what Callie's

are concerned about, how an alpha and