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

Chapter 0532

-Jace ~

The way I remembered the Clear Waters pack was a distant memory.

The softness, the tranquillity of the landscape...everything that made it what it was...is now steel, metal..a cold harshness.

The brutality in contrast to how I remember it was a wake up call to how long I had been away. I had been gone, what shy of a year...look how much has happened in that year. Mum said steel borders, I imagined steel borders...but to actually see them was something else.

Not only that, warriors of the Dark Phantom pack had infiltrated the pack here...turning the clear waters warriors into something else.

I get it, Dad needed to send them to protect the borders but if the Dark Phantom was considered night...then the Clear Waters was always knowns as being the light to its darkness.

It had been a week since Callie and I left the Dark Phantom pack.

A week of Callie getting used to her new pack, and taking the time to get to know the pack members.

Today the family descended, everyone...and I mean everyone was coming. Even the Arancea's...apparently my family cannot do anything without them.

But them coming serves a purpose once and for all.

Today, I would announce the date Callie would be made a pack member and the Luna through me marking her.

Callie bringing it up every time

sure I

mark her to keep the mate bond open in case I change

can be a pack member and be a Luna that

I was setting Cleo free. I was unchaining myself from the very thing that threatened to topple

was made

over looking the peaceful beach. This was my favourite spot in this land, if I pretend not to take notice of the

was at

was time they left. Once my family leave,

en novelxo

a fresh start, time for a new leadership upon this pack. Time

fingers moving to accept the call

Alphas, Miss Josie and Knox are here." A guard's voice

access." I grunt out before

myself, not noticing a

side, I could sense her unease of stepping down and leaving the pack that she had called

own,

these years, it's

I wouldn't know what to

"What do you mean?"

felt like home to me, real home. I'm not sure