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

- Cleo -

The three of them prowl towards us...like gods disguised in human form that threaten to

release a new hell on earth.

Their kind of hell.

They walk side by side until Jace takes a wider stride forward, a triangle formation settling amongst the three of them.

Warriors creep in behind them, at first slow...then forming into an unstoppable destructive tidal wave, promising a swift death to the pack members of the Amber Desert lands.

Dominating the lands that they invade. If you stood in their way, they just washed over you.

I've never seen anything like it, not even the night the White Moon pack attacked. Than does nothing, he doesn't run to the aid of his own people...he remains here...leaving them to fight for themselves.

The innocent screams echoing against the thunder clouds above us.

With one twist of the wrist from Jaxon, the warriors spread out, a bolt of lightening laminates the night sky...offering a spot light upon the pack lands.

A short lived glimpse of the horror that has fallen upon the pack.

Suddenly it isn't the silver bullet in the gun currently pointed towards me that puts fear into me, but the Varon triplets....they came for war. A war of my own making. But this was a massacre.

A growl escapes me when Knox and Callie move behind them...they weren't mates but he still brought her here. Perhaps Kaia had it wrong all along...perhaps they really can't be apart.

Like me, everyone was watching them...watching every footstep as they moved closer and closer towards us.

Until they sud

stop...just on the edge of our current imploding situation.noveldrama

His eyes find me, the air catching in the back of my throat when his gaze drops down from my eyes twice. At first to my lips...then secondly to my stomach.

He knew....there was no doubt now...no going back to before.

The old me would have shrunk under his intense glare, under those eyes that show anger towards me...but I'm not the young impressionable girl any more. I'm going to be a Mum, I need to be strong for my baby...and for me.

He can look at me all he wants with those judgemental eyes...but he's also fucked up, and he

can't deny that.

I'm here not only from my own doing...but because he lied to me...he said Callie was his mate, his destined one.

I'm also here...because of him.

Luna Medea may still have the gun pointed towards me, but her eyes were on Jace...as were mine.

"What's going on here?" A rumble escapes off Jaxon's lips, his body taking a step forward to be exactly next to his brother.

"It's a family matter." Luna Medea tuts back.

"Odd...because this is my family." Jaxon scowls back at her, his jaw tense and his lips twisting in disgust.

"And

you and your family are free to go at any time." Than offers out, his arms stretching out as if he were pardoning them all at the same time. Embarrassing them into his soul.

"What's the catch?" Jace growls out, his eyes not leaving me once.

"No catch...Look...our warriors are barely even fighting." Medea waves the gun around as if it were a poking device, pointing to a crowd of warriors held back... waiting for the orders.

Yes there were warriors fighting, but she hadn't yet unleashed what I can only imagine are the superior warriors...the ones that can kill alphas. I hadn't even noticed them standing there...waiting.

"Cleo?" His voice ignites a thousand mini fires inside of me, sparks that had never and will never truly die out. No matter how much I try.

My head spins back towards him,

my eyes leaving the group of warriors standing together in the distance. He's already taken a step closer towards me, his hand

ver

stretched out...his palm out, waiting

to take my hand in his.

I look to him, a moment passes between us where all I can hear is some kind of

energy between us...a buzzing sound.

That gravitational pull towards him deepening as he stands before me.

"Cleo, are you coming home?"

"Home?"

"With me?" As if it were that simple. Oh, how I wish it could be that simple. "With you?"

"Yes..." The situation surrounding us is dire but he still manages to smile out, his soft warm eyes spreading down to his lips....that tug at both corners...licking his lips with his tongue as he takes another step towards me.

"I'm sorry, but perhaps you haven't heard. Cleo is our family now. She remains." Than is back by my side his hands gripping me by the hip Jace catches the movement, his eyes widening with pure fury as a growl escapes him.

I've never seen Jace so angry, so venomous...

"Get your hands off my mate." A thunderclap rings out as Jace's aura expels out

of him.

"What is this?" Jaxon's eyes mirror his brother's, as he takes a step closer

towards the Amber Desert alpha also.

"She's my Luna."