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.

me against the wall and him, holding my hands behind my lower

me a chance to fight

baby?" I didn't expect those words to leave his lips. Why isn't he yelling

up into his green eyes, eyes that look down at

see

"we"

didn't you tell

you stay? Had you of stayed that morning...had you

catching as his hand moves from my neck down to my stomach...cupping

lifts the hem of my top up,

the back of my head from his touch, from the way he kneels down and places a trail of kisses at

as he greets his baby, the

themselves out of

through his hair, cupping his

I can feel my eyes glistening with

Concern for edges upon

emotions become too much...the

"Jace, I'm sorry..."

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

as he takes a step up, his

yet

Cleo. I tried

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

the life of my

live with that mistake for the rest of my life. I knew you were my mate...I got scared. The thought of Josing you because of the threat

you, you know that." I respond, his forehead now

break down the walls I had placed around my heart. Walls that I had built brick by brick to

"Jace..."

you to forgive me overnight,

me of my fate, of my destiny and

"But you're birth right..."

wherever you are Cleo, if that is being the alpha

this pack. You are my destiny...not land...not