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

- Cleo -noveldrama

I'm not home twenty minutes before I hear my parent's car pulling up outside.

I'm pacing the floor of my bedroom, the toxic mixture of both guilt and anger threatening to erupt out of me.

She caught us, his own mate caught us together.

My lips could still taste his on me, even now. One moment I was in heaven, the next in hell. Callie's and Josie's interruption would have pulled us apart; however, he had already pulled away from me.

He had already rejected me.

How could I have been so weak, yet again I allowed my feelings for him to get the better of me. To lose control.

I had gone to the cabin for a moment's peace, to collect myself before returning back to the

dinner table.

I just needed to regain my strength.

Jaxon had already easily extracted the truth from me; he found me in a moment of weakness...nausea completely taking over me.

I agreed I would tell Jace tomorrow, once the

celebrations were over...I just needed to get him alone.

Which I did, I had him alone.

Why didn't I tell him then, why didn't I find the strength to pull away from him.

Just a few words, that's all it would take...but the allure to him was just too strong. His coconut scent polluted the cabin and like a drug I found myself powerless under it.

A pang of guilt forces itself through me again at the flashback of her reaction. Her face, she was

so shocked...so appalled. I touched what was hers...

The anger within me is like a demon, each time I try to make sense of what had just happened,

how I showed lack of control...only for the anger to flare up...blaming him.

Wasn't he the one that came after me, wasn't he the one that touched me first. I believe it was his lips that thrusted on to mine.

Just like the lift in hotel, I was willing to leave...but it was he that refused to let me leave.

"Cleo?" Mum's voice calls up to me, my body freezing on the spot... my pacing stopping.

I've stopped in front of my mirror, my eyes locking onto my reflection.

My eyes shine brightly, that noticeable turquoise blue growing in strength as my wolf pressing forward, her exhaustion temporarily forgotten as she tries to stop me from spiralling. "I'll be down in a minute." I call back out, yet again, wanting to calm myself. It was getting more difficult though, to keep my emotions in check.

I was fine, I was confident...I knew my life's plan before this dinner party.

I was having a human baby, my family were supportive...they were going to build a house next door for me.

But now Jaxon knows for definite,

Jace's and Callie's mate bond was hanging on with a thread after being caught with me... the Varon's will know by now.

Know everything.

If Callie remains with Jace then my entire family and pack will be ghosted by them.

They will never forgive me for this betrayal.

All because he couldn't leave me alone...for once I refuse to take the complete blame. Twice now he has put me in a position I didn't ask for. For someone that has a mate, why did he keep

seeking me out.

"What is going on?" Dad is up the stairs first, clear concern in his eyes as he moves into my bedroom... finding me staring at myself in the mirror. "Nothing." My voice catches in the back of my throat, forcing it to come out as a whisper.

"Nothing? You just completely humiliated us." Mum pushes past Dad, forcing her way into my bedroom where Dad tries to reach out to pull her back. Her words are like a sharp-ended arrow hitting the heart of me.

"Embarrassed you how?" I seethe out, refusing to turn to look at her.

"The way you just ran out of there. Heaven knows what Callie's parents must think of us."

"Is that what you are concerned about, how an alpha and luna that you haven't met until this

evening think of us?"

"Mum didn't mean it like that, did you Rosa.." Dad tries to diffuse the rising tension between Mum and me.

"Plus all the drama of you disappearing at dinner time.." She continues not even hearing Dad.

"I told you I didn't want to go, I was being sick in the toilet Mum. That happens when you are pregnant, it wasn't something I could control" growl out in frustration, if I had just stayed here this night wouldn't have turned out into being a disaster.

"What Jaxon must have thought you were doing in there..." She gasps out, her hands moving to her face.

"Jaxon already knows Mum..."

"What?" Mum shrieks out.

"He's known for a few days..."

"Since when?" Dad demands, his voice growing icy. He knows I have been lying to them, again...something I didn't usually do. "Since he was here and heard the second heart beat." I sigh out, closing my eyes as I prepare for the onslaught of their words.

"Is that what the hole in the wall is about?" Dad motions to the wall where the fist sized hole remains. "No...yes...a little."

"So, Jaxon knows that you're having

a human baby? Which means by now they will all know." Amy other time I could handle Mum like this,

but not today, not when my own life was unravelling before my very eyes.