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."

for my beach club and I put an end to that...being with

she was pregnant with my child I would have felt it, I would have recognised the pull

sensed if she was

if you took a wolfsbane shot!" My wolf whimpers out in my head, for once his aggression towards me is replaced with a yearning for her, a

ground, a 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 an eery silence...I

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 to it. But I kept denying it, kept pushing it back down...ignoring

How she had tried to reach out to me again and again...how brave she had

anything I

I

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

her heart yet again, pushed her to

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

can dare have what is mine? Dare have what

" Callie's voice

done." I breathe out, my voice

you done?" Ares shoots me a glare,

mine." I close my eyes, my

even possible? The baby is

in love with her, and she