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.

head, his anger at me...at what I have done is

forgive me, she'll never

a fucking idiot. I've pushed her away to keep her safe, but all I have done is send her to

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

My Cleo....

at first as a friend...a protector. Then as I grew those feelings

away from every one. Something every alpha feels...being away from their pack. Fuck, Knox even delivered training on calming your wolf

in to the house. To see her again after a year away...my wolf

I. She was mine she was made for

bond

I've hugged her after numerous of tumbles trying to keep up

tried her

bond humming in the background. The need to protect her, to keep her safe...even

every step I have taken has led me to this moment...and I regret making

her the night

fucking deserved all along. Now it might be

fucking admitted that she was my everything, that my destiny

to my sister, my alpha command rolling off me and into

to wake up