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

Chapter 0548Cleo -

"Freya?" I bend down, trying to gain her eye contact but she was in so much pain...her eyes were hardly focusing.

To my astonishment Zane fetches another rope soaked in wolfsbane, preparing to put it on her. He had thick leather gloves on, it might not be causing him harm but she was in excruciating pain.

Why was he behaving like nothing was wrong.

"Stop...stop it." I aggressively push Zane's hand away from her, blocking her body from him with mine. "What are you doing?" I growl out, my voice demanding.

"She wants it, she needs it."

"Needs it?"

His eyes dart between me and Freya, before moving to the ropes in his hands.

"I'm not...do you think I am doing this to her?"

Am I the only one that is truly seeing the depravity before me. Did I accidently take a sip on the hip flask without remembering. Why was everyone acting like this wasn't severely wrong.

"You were putting the ropes on her."

"Yes, but without me...

"Without you what?" I seethe out, my jaw tense as it takes a lot of my strength to not act out and throttle him with the ropes in his hands. Give him a taste of his own medicine.

"It's her punishment, for helping the lunas."

"Lunas?"

helped Luna Alora escape,

years ago? Have you been doing this to her for twenty years?" Now the red scars upon her

painfully reopened. Scars that were struggling to heal under the impact of the poison, blood continuing to drip down the chair's arms creating a

dead. It was her punishment set by the alpha. Without me, she would have taken it too far." He looks at me as if I was the

speaking a different language for what good it

want you to remove the ropes from her, take her upstairs and let her rest." I

want to get on my

"Yes Luna."

within me, how could Freya still be paying

floor, where he gently places a sobbing Frey la onto the

now, I storm out of the beta household, entering the alpha house with a venomous anger surging

I scream out, not waiting to be granted entry into the alpha office,

not caring if he was alone or

"Cleo...calm down."

calm

Freya does or says something that would be detrimental to this pack or to me as an alpha she

was standing over her

her. He found her doing it

than stop

has to keep going until she summits to

"Summits to what?"

responds, his hands moving and resting openly on top of his desk.