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.

it in detail, more Callie bringing it up every time

I sure I wanted to

keep the mate bond open in case I change my

pack member and be a Luna

in marking her, I was setting Cleo free. I was unchaining myself from the

mind was made

to take notice of the steel borders to either side of me...I can envisage complete

returning I have ensured I was at each and

here but it was time they left. Once my family leave, they...along with Auntie Alora and Ezra

en novelxo

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

phone rings, my fingers moving to

are here." A guard's voice

I grunt out before

murmur to myself, not noticing

there is no rush?" Auntie Alora moves to my side, I could sense her unease of stepping

so much, never having children of her own, never exploring the world...surely it was about time

kept the pack safe all these

wouldn't know what

"What do you mean?"

home to me, real home. I'm not sure how I feel about