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."

was human, but Josie was right...when has Rosa ever been around humans. Except for my beach club and I put an end to that...being with her instead. "Of

with my child I would have felt it,

sensed if she

for once his aggression towards me is replaced with a yearning for her, a fear that I've done things I

that I couldn't make sense of what was being said. But

ignoring it, the mate bond was trying to warn me, trying to force me to open my eyes to

has been pregnant all this time. How she had tried to reach out to me again and again...how brave she had been even

beyond anything I

I

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

again, pushed her to

mistake against us, against our parents. Biding his time....just

dare have what is mine? Dare have what is

Jace.. " Callie's voice is tearful,

have I done." I breathe out, my voice

Ares shoots me a glare, his

my eyes, my admission loud for

even possible? The baby is a human." A

love with