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

"Then why don't you entlighten me?" I slowly sit down next to her, sliding into the chair with confidence. They may have been holding out, but I'm determined to find out from her.

"I don't think you have the stomach for it."

"Then you, like my parents, are underestimating me."

"The White Moon pack has a claim on the White Wolf, believes that if they sacrifice her back to the moon goddess...who created her...they will return to their former glory. To be the most powerful pack in existence.

The white wolf's very existence is the reason they have been shunned to the out skirts of shifter society. Most would want to live their lives out in peace, in comforts...but not the current alpha...no he is power hungry, he was revenge.

He thinks the pack has suffered for too long, he thinks in sacrificing her...the moon goddess will restore them."

"When you say sacrifice..."

"Kill...well, drink the White Wolf's blood and send her soul back to the moon."

"The White Wolf, you mean Kaia?"

"Yes."

"How do you know this?"

"How do you not?" She tuts out at me, that annoyance again in her demeanour towards me.

No it can't just be me, Jace has never mentioned anything like this about his mother, not even Josie. Surely they can't all know but not have told me...or Áres. No...this can't be right.

"Even her children do not know this so I know it isn't just me." I retort back at her, she kept taking swipes at me and they were getting on my last nerve. I can't help it if I don't know something that has been deliberately kept a secret from.

"I guess they've been kept in the dark too. You cannot hide from the past, a mistake on the White Wolf's part. She has poorly equipped her own children for the future they must face."

"What do you mean?"

"Each child of the White Wolf is in danger, he can get to any of them...if he so wishes. He almost got to the healer wolf."

The healer wolf...

"Josie?"

"Yes..."

"What would he want with Josie?" Just the thought of my best friend in danger, of any of them in danger shakes me to my core.

"Just imagine, an army that never dies..." Her head snaps towards me, her eyes almost luminous...like a white light shining in the darkest of nights.

"And Jaxon...Jace?" I swallow hard at the lump that has formed in the back of my throat from saying his name out loud.

I promised myself I would never think of him again, never mention him...but if he was in danger I owe it to our baby to help him. To make sure he stays safe.

I may not be able to be with him, but I cannot lose him. I will love him for the remainder of my life, as long

as he is safe...I can't love him if he is gone. As much as it hurts me that he will never be mine...I cannot survive in a world that he no longer exists in.

It's too early surely, but I can feel a small movement in my lower stomach, like a kick.

I gasp out, my hand moving down to my belly as soon as I mention his name.

Her eyes follow mine, to my small belly. I still wasn't showing but my leggings were becoming tighter, it wouldn't be long until I could no longer hide that I was pregnant.

"Is it his?" A mumble escapes her.

"Whose?"

"The second born...Jace?"

I don't answer, but I know my frozen response is speaking volumes.

"You can't stay here....you need to leave."

"Why?"

"Are you carrying the grandchild of the White Wolf? If so, you are in more peril that I had realised." Panic starts to course through me, a sinking feeling that I was struggling to climb myself out of.

It had never occurred to me that carrying the grandchild of the White Wolf would be dangerous, I was too concerned of the affects it would have on our families.

How naive t have been. So mentality warped by our inner circle, I never once truly thought of my baby being in danger... of who would benefit from having me by their side

Someone like Than.

"Why would I be in danger...and my child?"

"If the White Moon pack find you... if he finds me here."

"If who finds you here."

"The Alpha."

"Why would the alpha be looking for you?"

"Because I am his mate. I believe that is why I am here...to be traded as part of a deal."

"No...no Than wouldn't do that to me, he doesn't know who the father is, he just knows it's not human."

"Then you need to pray that he doesn't find out, and you need to keep your wits about you. I can

help you, but only that will go for so far."

"Why would you help me?"

"The child...the one growing in your belly. He..."

"He?" I am snapped out of my spiralling state of mind.

"Oh yes, I would say it was a boy." my surprise her hand reaches taking mine in its hold and

squeezing gently. Content to

"He is a part of me..." She continues.

"How?"

"Kaia is my niece, her mother was my sister."noveldrama