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

- Cleo -

The screams increase...their desperate cries becoming more frantic...and my heart breaks when I hear children crying out.

No matter what has happened between Than and my family, the pack members were the innocent ones and I refused to let them be punished for accepting me.

"Alpha?" Beta Zane storms out of the beta house, alone. My eyes flash up to the top level window, where was Freya...was she still alive.

"We are under attack, protect the borders..."

"Yes Alpha!"

"And report back to me who the fuck is attacking. Although I could have a guess..."

He grips me by my elbow pulling me closely to him, his lips by my ear as he seethes out...

"Looks like lover boy has come for his prize." His heated breath tickles at my ear, anger radiating off him.

Warriors descend upon the front of the alpha house, my family moving into action to fight them off.

I move towards them, needing to help but Than pulls me with him, back into the alpha house, back into his alpha office where it is just the two of us.

My mind is moving at a thousand thoughts per second... trying to think of a way to get them out of this, to stop them from getting hurt.

He moves to his desk, ripping the painting off the wall before tearing open the safe and pulling out a gun.

My eyes widen...watching his every move as he places a small box out on his desk...pulling out silver bullets... flinching as they burn on the tip of his fingers.

"Let me talk to him, I'll get him to stand down." Panic rages through me, my eyes staring coldly at the gun held tightly in his hand.

"Somehow I don't think you will." His eyes look at me coldly, all warmth disappearing from him.

"What are you going to do with that?"

“Just a little insurance policy..." His eyes glaze over into a mind-link, a growl emitting from him.

"They've broken through the south side....Mother!" He roars out, Luna Medea entering into his office...Kaia's aunt by her side.

I growl out as Medea forcibly pushes the woman into a chair.

The movement causing the frail female to shriek out.

"Don't touch her." I seethe out, rushing to her side...her hands patting on mine

that are cupped to her face to make sure she has no injuries.

"You..." Medea points the dagger at me, her eyes lit with fury.

"You're just like them, bringing trouble on our doorstep." Her face distorts with complete contempt for me.

"How? He sought out me." I argue pack, my eyes carefully watching the knife in her hand.

"Cleo?" Mum's fearful voice pushes into my mind.

"I'm fine.." I try to push her back out, not wanting to lose focus on the situation happening in front of me.

"Where are you." Dad's angry voice bellows through the link, joining Mum's.

"I'm inside...what's going on?"

"We think it is Jace, Jaxon and Josie... Cleo, listen to me whatever you do, do not trust Than..."

"Dad?"noveldrama

"Trust me."

"I know everything. He's told me. I know that he was married to Kaia, that both of them were his mates."

"You don't know everything Cleo, he used Kaia...he groomed her for her organs. Alora was dying...he needed an organ donor... he used Kaia. Pretended to love her...then he Mum's frantic voice cuts out abruptly.

"Cleo!" A growl snaps me out of the mind-link bringing me back into the alpha office, but Mum's voice was trying to reconnect. She needed to concentrate on fighting, not worry about me.

I try to refuse the connection, but Mum uses her Luna aura on me.

"Get out of there, whatever it takes. He raped her..." Her voice ploughs into my mind.

"What?"

"He raped Kaia...forcibly impregnated her..." The words echo through my ears as

I am forced out of the mind-link again, this time by the sound of sirens growing more intense.

"Damn, the secondary system has been activated."

Than growls out by my side.

"What does that mean?" Medea bites at him impatiently.

"Means they haven't come alone...they have numbers...get them to the shelter

and lock it." He orders at his mother.

"What about you?"

"I'm going to take care of my dear

brother and his off spring once and for all." He clicks the gun, the movement causing me to act out The thought of Jace being forces my wolf forward. My arm knocking the gun out of Than's hand and onto the floor.

Her sudden movement takes me by surprise, her energy levels has been so low

of late.

"No!" I roar out, complete disgust foaming in my mouth.

"No?" Medea back slaps me across the face, the unexpected movement forcing me to take a back step. Than bends down picking the gun back up.

"Cleo?" Than takes a step closer to me, his hands reaching out to me. No...I don't want him to ever touch me again. Not knowing what I now know.

"You raped her?" My eyes narrow on him.