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, then

to her for twenty years?"

impact of the poison, blood continuing to drip down

taken it too far." He looks

ago?" He could be speaking a different language for what good it was doing me to understand what

remove the ropes from her, take her upstairs and let her rest." I powerfully command

want to get on

"Yes Luna."

alight within me, how could Freya still be paying

a sobbing Frey la onto the bed, before fetching warm water and soaking

for now, I storm out of the beta household, entering the

waiting to be granted entry into the alpha

if he was

"Cleo...calm down."

me to calm down. You better

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

harms? No Zane was standing over

He found her

than stop

to keep going

"Summits to what?"

command." He calmly responds, his hands moving and resting openly on top of his desk. "Alpha command? You commanded her to do this....for all this time?"