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."

Except for

I would have

have sensed if she was

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

the room. Everybody had been so loud, so vocal that I couldn't make sense of what was being said.

to force me to open my eyes to it. But I kept denying

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

beyond anything I

I

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

again, pushed her to

used my mistake against us, against

what is mine? Dare have what is destined

Callie's voice is

I done." I breathe out,

have you done?" Ares shoots me a glare, his jaw

close my eyes,

The baby is a human." A tearful

love with her, and she