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.

about it in detail, more Callie

I sure I wanted to mark

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

can be a pack member and be a Luna that

was setting Cleo free. I was unchaining myself from

mind was

land, if I pretend not to take notice of the steel borders to either side of me...I can envisage complete freedom inside of this pack. How it was. Just looking out to the horizon gave me

I have ensured I was at

appreciative of the work the Dark Phantom Warriors have done here but it was time they left. Once my family leave, they...along with

en novelxo

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

phone rings, my fingers moving

Josie and Knox are here." A guard's

I grunt out before ending the call.

not noticing

to my side, I could sense her unease of stepping down and leaving the pack

her own, never exploring the world...surely it was about time

kept the pack safe all these years,

wouldn't know what to do

"What do you mean?"

first pack that has felt like home to me,