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

Chapter 0547 "I...I just need a moment." I respond, clutching at my stomach, excruciating pain cramping at me. "Here take some of this?" The old woman hands her hip flask out to me, a groan escaping me as I bend over...I was going to hurl at any second.

"What is it?"

"It will help, it will take the pain away."

I take the hip flask off her, sniffing at it only to push it away from me...the potent smell of wolfsbane burning at my nostrils.

"It's wolfsbane." My pain is too intense to really sound how horrified I am that not only she was willingly sipping on this but she was offering it to a pregnant woman.

"Yes."

"Why would you think I would want that?"

"It will stop the calling to the pack, to the baby's father."

"It will kill the baby."

"No, I've been taking it for decades and I'm still standing." I'm torn between crying and laughing at her comment, the severity of my current situation hitting me like a ton of bricks.

My blood turns cold when I hear a scream coming from the beta household, a female scream.

"Freya?" My feet are already moving, all nausea leaving me...now replaced with concern for the female beta.

I knock on the front door, only for another

ignoring this inner sense that something was wrong, enough of being polite...I may not be part of the pack link yet but I knew she needed

I hear both Than and Luna Medea exit the alpha house. "Cleo?" Than roars out to me, but I don't wait, I cross the threshold of the beta

the sound of whimpering.

intently, my wolf letting

noise wasn't coming from upstairs, it was coming from

with urgency at a door that must

no." Than grips my

"What is going on?"

pack member's homes. This is their

the door open, moving

dried blood hits me first,

slight scent from the hip flask,

at the bottom step instantly, my eyes scanning the basement to find a figure sitting in

Freya.

curdling scream escapes Freya again as Zane places a piece of rope across her arm, tying her to the

in horror as the sound of burning flesh erupts, drowning out Freya's

are you doing?" I demand out, pushing Zane to the side, my hands wanting to remove the ropes from her but in doing so I myself would

I turn to Than who stands with his arms crossed, a displeased look to his eyes

He looked cold.