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

Chapter 0538

- Jace -

"Baby, what baby?"

"Of course..." Mum gasps out but I can't keep up with everybody else's words, all I can concentrate is on one image...Cleo having a baby.

"What baby?" I roar out again, surely, they must have it wrong. She can't be with child, she would have told me.

"Cleo is pregnant." The words leave Auntie Rosa's lips, her eyes piercing directly through to my soul. No..that cannot be.

"What?"

"He still wants an heir, after all this time." Dad's voice rumbles out loudly over everybody else's.

"No the father is a human...it's not Than's." Rosa declares out loudly, shaking her head, her breathing continuing to be erratic.

It's like the world disappears around me...everything just melts away. All the shouting over each other, the incessant noise...it is blocked out, as all I can hear is my own heart beat thudding against my chest. "She's pregnant?" My words don't even sound like my own. They sound clouded...a voice not belonging to me.

Maybe it's the blood now pumping violently against my ear drum that has drowned out even the sound of my own voice.

"Jace?" Jaxon clears the floor towards me, large meaningful strides before his hand lands firmly on my shoulder...helping to keep me grounded.

name?" Josie's voice rises above the arguing that has continued in

as if she was pained by

We should have told them. She wouldn't have gone near him if she knew. He's manipulated our lengths to

the one in the bar..the one that got kicked out by Uncle Jude's men. What

would go to the ends of the world to protect her, just like I

growl out in frustration,

so much

Than is

But also Auntie Alora's

mate Dad answers, he

be by

the

flicker between Mum and Auntie Alora. The words are bitter upon my lips, just how deeply involved is Cleo in this It was imperative that we get to her, that we pull

But he used me, until

from Dad, the notorious Dark Phantom alpha

it's time they knew." Mum places a hand on Dad, soothing his wolf's anger by her

find my father, my search for him led me

her out...." Auntie Rosa reaches

did you