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

- Cleo -

I move his hands off my face...I can't look him in the eyes. My mind was spiralling

and I couldn't stop it.

Freya.

Borders.

Alora....

Supplies.

My mind was making lists of things that need sorting...things that would keep me going right now. If I stopped for a second I fear I would crumble under the heavy burden of guilt.

The hospital.

The injured.

The dead.

No...Alora...

My legs were trembling as I try to remain upright...but she was dead...Alora was dead.

How will they ever forgive me.

There must be something...something in these drawers, in this safe...on this desk that tells me where Medea has escaped to.

I want to kill her myself...I don't think I've ever felt such deadly anger coursing through my body.

She needed to die, and now.

"Cleo...I need you to look at me." His voice is like a beacon calling me home during a terrifying storm at sea. He was guiding me to him, all I had to do was listen...to open up to him.

"I can't.." I shake my head, refusing to give in. If I give in...the guilt takes over, the pain takes me..I will be surrendering myself to it.

holding my hands behind my lower back with one hand... the other trailing

not giving me a chance to fight it. That gravitational pull to

having a baby?" I didn't expect those words to leave his lips. Why

from those unexpected words at a time like this, I look up into his green

vengeance but I see love, happiness...even excitement

words "we" wasn't

didn't you tell

Had you of

as his hand moves from my neck

to leave me when he slowly lifts the hem of my top

stifle the moan but not the way my eyes roll into the back of my head

there." A second hand moves on to my stomach as he greets his baby, the experience forcing emotions to rise at

force themselves out of

my hands move through his hair, cupping his face as he looks

can feel

Concern for edges

emotions become too much...the

"Jace, I'm sorry..."

and it wasn't your fault. None of this was your

step up, his eyes following me as he leans

yet again

are mine Cleo. I tried

you. It was a stupid notion, I can see that

life

you were my mate...I

you, you know that." I respond, his forehead now pressing against mine as we just hold one

the walls I had placed around my heart. Walls that I had built brick

"Jace..."

don't expect you to forgive me overnight, but us having

fate, of my destiny and that is by your

"But you're birth right..."

that is being the alpha of

pack. You are my destiny...not