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

- Jace -

This place feels different to me now.

I feel less connected with it, which is odd because I hadn't ever taken on the alpha title from Mum, and neither has Josie yet.

Technically nothing has changed, I meant the same to the Clear Waters pack as I did a few days ago...but now as the alpha of the Amber Desert pack, being here...there is no doubt in my mind that I have made thre right decision.

That I wasn't meant to rule this place, Josie was.

I'm going to miss these damn views though.

Even in the darkness of night time, as the moonlight cascades upon the gentle sea waters ahead...offering a fluorescent beam for miles, you can still make out just how beautiful it was here.

This place truly was picturesque. An unmatched landscape that I'll need to go out of my way to find in the Amber Desert lands to try and compete with.

Try, and fail.

"Congratulations, you are a marked man!" Jaxon pulls my eyes away from the gentle waters.

"That I am." I smile back at my brother who slowly approaches me, it would seem he also was struggling with sleep at the moment.

I don't think I will be able to rest properly until our auntie is laid to rest and Medea

is caught. No matter how long it takes I will find her, I will kill her.

"You did right not to wait." Jaxon claps me on the back, pure happiness for me buzzing through the triplet bond. I wish I could see him with a mate, with a child

on the way.

time, I wasn't going to wait for a ceremony. Also, the pack needed to know from the outset who was in control, and

out and is replaced with a level of sadness. He crouches down, collecting a stone from

so far away." He

been far away for a year Jaxon,

things keep changing. First Josie,

He was right, things

out, yes...the biggest change of all. "A

going to be a

father." I chuckle out, I was still trying to get my head around that, I need to

a time I had given up on the

at the time but now I know my first

looking behind to the area he had

through, I'll catch up tomorrow. Ezra's not in the right mindset to keep on track of the borders, and I didn't want to put Mum on that tonight." I

a long time, they...like her family

their alpha's sister...she

and I

alive because I dodged that

was the last thing on

night is quiet, Jaxon and I remaining on border patrol meeting

conversation when coffee wasn't available

time the next shift arrives it is already 6am. We

find only Callie

by herself in