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

Hector POVThis content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

Samson the bastard had let me watch him carry Kaia out of the dungeons, my own mate in another male's arms.

Mine...she was mine.

I could feel my life leaving me, feel my end coming. The knife that was still wedged between my chest plate was only centimetres away from my heart..a little higher and I would have bled out ages ago. My wolf, determined for us to save our mate, kept pushing forward only for the silver chains to make him recede back.

But that wouldn't stop me, we kept trying, kept fighting against the chains until the darkness took over me.

I wasn't dead, I know that. I could smell something...something on fire.

I was in a black void, consciously aware but not, like sleeping, but also not sleeping.

I knew I wasn't dead, but I knew my mind and body had lost connection.

That's when I felt it, a surge of energy enter me...like a lightning bolt hitting at my chest. Without a second thought I held on to that energy, I knew it would give me the strength I needed to get to Kaia. What I wasn't expecting was for her eyes to be directly in front of mine as I opened mine.

"Kaia?" I murmur out just as her unconscious body lands onto my

My eyes dart around the room beneath me as I realise I am no longer in a chair but sprawled out half way 'up the steps. She had broken me free of the chains and pulled me up this high but at a great cost to her. Her hands were dripping with blood and her head collapsed within my hold as I tried to wake her.

"Kaia?" My urge to wake her makes me sit up, I could hear her heart beat but only just.

She had something black under her nose and it is only when I wipe it away the black smoke stain that I understand the smell in my unconscious was from the flames burning above.

I move, not wasting a second.

I pick her up, cradling her close to my chest as I move up the dungeon steps. The flames had taken over the hallway, the exit now impassable. The stairs leading to the floors above were now our only way out. Holding my breath I push through the flames, hugging her body tightly in my arms. What the hell had happened... If she had broken free why the fuck did she come back for me.

Anger washes over me that she would risk her life to come back for me.

follow the stairs up to find an opened door...a window. I could get us out through the window. Stepping into the room, a possessive growl emits from me as her scent perfumes the room...ropes with the unmistakable smell of wolfsbane had been tied to the bed. If this where he moved her.

If he so much as fucking touched her....

A darkness takes over me, such blinding anger at how she has been treated by her own beta, the person that was meant to protect her.

I'll fucking kill him.

"Forgive me my love." I wince as I wrap the rope covered in wolfsbane back around her body, the poison burning at my own hands.

Her body was out cold, I knew she wasn't dead as I could still feel the buzzing of the mate bond between us, feel the undeniable ache to protect her, to love her to keep her mine.

I start lowering her lifeless body out of the window, I swallow the pain my mouth wants to growl out from the wolsbane as I slowly ease the rope between my grip.

I won't give in to the pain, not until she is safely on the ground below.

The flames start to lick their menancing heated kisses on my back from the top of the stairs. We were out

of time.

An explosion on the stairs threatens to make me surge forward, no, not until she is on the ground.

Her body lays motionless on the grass below, her body burning from the wolfsbane, I had to get to her, I had to remove the ropes.

Her healing abilities wouldn't return to her, not with the wolfsbane seeping into her pores.

I'll have to jump, the stairs are also impassable now.

I leap out of the window, being careful to make sure I don't lar

aia. It is only one level but if I land

awkwardly it has the potential to break my legs. And I need those get us away from here.

I don't let my mind think about it, I am out of time, Kaia is running out of time.

Once safely on the ground I move to Kaia, tearing the ropes away from her and picking her now cold body up in my arms.

"Stay with me Kaia." I shout out to her, my nose touching my mark on her neck.