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.

do I know that name?" Josie's voice rises above the arguing

as if she was pained by the sound

him if she knew. He's manipulated our lengths to protect them...all this time we've been keeping him away

him...he was the one in the bar..the one that got kicked out

clenched fists. Cleo might be older than him but I know for a fact he would go to the ends of the world to protect her, just like I would for Josie. Having a sister doesn't matter if they are older or younger than you, you keep them safe no matter what. "Yes...I'm afraid

growl out in frustration, as Mum

always so

Than is your mother's

But also

mate Dad answers, he

to be by

the

Auntie Alora. The words are bitter upon my lips, just how deeply involved is Cleo in this It was

were. But he used

the notorious Dark Phantom alpha wolf still

Mum places a hand on

to find my father, my

monster...we need to get her out...." Auntie Rosa

did you flee?"