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

- Jace -

"Jace...JACE!" A hard slap around my face forces my eyes wide open, my jaw aching as both Knox and Jaxon stand above me.

My eyes search the room...Josie was passed out on the floor, Callie crouched down beside her holding her hand.

"What happened?" I grunt out, rubbing my jaw line, trying to soothe the burning sensation from the freshly landed hit.

"Looks like the adults have left the kids to defend for themselves." Knox grumbles out as he places a hand out for me, upon taking it he pulls me upright back onto my feet.

My hand moves to the back of my neck, trying to ease the tense muscles as I try to play catch up...try to think what had happened.

I remember seeing their shoes walk out the front door... Dad practically holding Mum upright herself...her eyes pure blue.

She had used her White Wolf ability to not only wipe me out but also Josie. How was Jaxon standing before me.

"She didn't get you?"

"Oh, she did." A lowly growl escapes him, the noise triggering some kind of flashback within me.

Then it hits me, like a fucking high speed train....Cleo was pregnant, pregnant with my baby...and she was with someone that had fucking raped my own mother.

I've pushed her to him. I've pushed her towards a monster when everything I have done, as cut throat towards her as it has been has solely been done to keep her safe.

howls in my head, his anger at me...at what I have done

never forgive me, she'll never

to keep her safe, but all I have done is

gun myself...I just haven't pulled the trigger...I've put Cleo in a position where she had no choice

My Cleo....

Then as I grew those feelings changed.

alpha feels...being away from their pack. Fuck, Knox even delivered training on calming your wolf from being off pack grounds for extended amounts of

returned, when she walked in to the house. To

I. She was mine

mate bond then, I knew I

of tumbles trying to keep up with

her tears

humming in the background. The need to protect

it...every fucking decision I have made, every step I have taken has led me to this moment...and

my arms, marked her the night of the beach club hotel...never have

needed, been the mate she fucking deserved all along. Now it might be too

was my everything, that my destiny is to

into her. It works, her eyes shoot open...a growl emitting from Knox

for her to wake up on her own, I need to leave