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."

Rosa ever been around humans. Except for my beach

with my child I would have felt it, I would have recognised

have sensed if

for once his aggression towards me is replaced with a yearning for her, a fear that I've done things I can't undo. Irrevocable damage to

thud ricocheting around the now silence of the room. Everybody had been so loud, so vocal that I couldn't make sense of what was being said. But now that I am met with

been all this time but I had been ignoring it, the mate bond was trying to warn me, trying to force me to open my eyes

time. How she had tried to reach out to me again

beyond anything I

I

another.....purposefully, when my own mate stood before me. Pregnant with my

heart yet again, pushed her to

mistake against us, against

have what is mine?

Jace.. " Callie's voice is tearful,

I done." I breathe out, my

shoots me a glare,

mine." I close my eyes, my

is a human." A tearful wail escapes

in love with her, and