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.

I tell him then, why didn't I find the strength to pull away

that's all it would take...but the allure to him was just too strong. His coconut scent polluted the cabin and like a drug I found myself

of guilt forces itself through me again at the flashback of

shocked...so appalled. I touched what was

me is like a demon, each time I try to

for the

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

was willing to leave...but it was he that refused to let

up to me, my body freezing on

front of my mirror, my

noticeable turquoise blue growing in strength as my wolf pressing forward, her exhaustion temporarily forgotten as she tries to stop me from spiralling. "I'll be down in a minute." I call back out, yet again, wanting to calm myself. It was getting more difficult though,

was fine, I was confident...I knew my life's plan before

were supportive...they were going to build

Jaxon knows for

was hanging on with a thread after being

Know everything.

my entire family and pack will

never forgive me for

me alone...for once I refuse to take the complete blame. Twice now he has put me in a

seeking me out.

into my bedroom... finding me staring at myself in the mirror. "Nothing." My voice catches in the back of my throat, forcing

where Dad tries to reach out to pull her back. Her words are like a sharp-ended arrow

I seethe out, refusing to turn

there. Heaven

about, how an alpha and