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.

we've already wasted too much time, I wasn't going to wait for a ceremony. Also, the pack needed to know from the outset who was

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

far

been far away for a year Jaxon, at

things keep changing. First

He was right, things were changing...things had

He blows his cheeks out, yes...the biggest change of all. "A

going to be

a father." I chuckle out, I was still trying to get my

a time I had given up on the prospect of having children

time but now I know my first child is already cooking, I can't believe how excited I

Jaxon asks, looking behind to the area he had just

to keep on track of the borders, and I didn't want to put Mum on that

was part of this pack for a long time, they...like her family

their alpha's

a soft border cover was being run, and I didn't

I'm alive because I dodged

the last thing on

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

conversation

the time the next shift arrives it is already

find only Callie

herself in