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

Chapter 0540

- Jace -

"Grandchild?" A few voices ask at once, all eyes looking to Jaxon in replica astonishment, myself included.

"Jaxon, what are you talking about..." Josie calls out, but my eyes are locked on my brother, whose hand...that has remained on my shoulder for some time, suddenly has some weight to it.

Suddenly I can feel myself being pushed down by a gravitational weight.

"Jace..." He turns to me, a graveness within his eyes.

"Jaxon?" Mum demands out but she is immediately hushed by Jaxon.

"Mum, just stop... Jace..." My head tilts slightly to his hand on my shoulder, he had crossed the floor to be by my side...he was preparing to support me before I even knew why.

Why would he need to support me..

Then a flashback, to their odd behaviour the other night. The way he wouldn't leave her alone...the way he snatched the champagne flute out of her hand.

"No.." I gasp out.

"Yes."

humans. Except for my beach club and I put an end to

pregnant with my child I would have felt

would have sensed if she

whimpers out in my head, for once his aggression towards me is replaced with a yearning for her, a fear that I've done things I can't undo.

so vocal that I couldn't make sense of what was being said. But now that I am met with an eery silence...I can feel it,

it, the mate bond was trying to warn me, trying to

time. How she had tried to reach

anything I

I

fake mate before her very eyes, touched another.....purposefully, when my own mate

again,

us, against our parents. Biding his

what is mine?

Jace.. " Callie's voice is

I done." I breathe out,

Ares shoots me a

eyes, my admission loud for all to

is

with her, and she