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.

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

forgive me, she'll

pushed her away to keep her safe, but all I have done is send her to

gun myself...I just haven't pulled the trigger...I've put Cleo in a

My Cleo....

life, at first as a friend...a protector. Then as I grew those feelings changed. I didn't notice at first, I went away to

feels...being away from their pack. Fuck, Knox even delivered training on calming your

To see her again after a year away...my

was mine she was

young to feel the mate bond then, I knew I had time on

numerous of tumbles trying to keep

her tears as

between us since her birth, the mate bond humming in the background. The need to protect her,

fucking decision I have made, every step I have taken has

her in my arms, marked her the night

she fucking deserved all along. Now it

was my everything, that my destiny is to be

to my sister, my alpha command rolling off me and into her. It works, her eyes

have time to wait for her to wake up on her own, I need