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

crouches down, collecting a

far away."

for a year Jaxon, at least

true, just... things keep changing. First Josie, now

right, things

out, yes...the biggest

are going to be a

out, I was still trying to get my head around that, I need to let that

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

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

looking behind to the area

to keep on track of

pack for a long time, they...like her

was their alpha's

being run, and I didn't mind being available to watch the

I'm alive because I dodged

was the last thing on

and I remaining on border patrol meeting up again

conversation when coffee wasn't available out

shift arrives it is already 6am. We both return

to find only Callie

herself