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

Just tell them Cleo, tell them who the real father of the baby is...noveldrama

"You're acting Mum as if my baby is an issue, you said yourself that the entire pack was behind me...that you didn't care about the baby's father."

"Human or not, you are still having a baby without a mate..." Her words are like a hundred arrows to the chest.

"Rosa, you didn't just say that?" Dad, shocked by her words, looks as if she had slapped him across the face.

"Don't pretend that isn't what you are thinking.." She seethes out, her eyes glowing to that of her wolf.

"Of course not, you and I of all people know that our past doesn't define us." His lowly warns Mum. "I don't have a mate."

"Yes you do, everybody has a mate you just couldn't wait could you. You had to get yourself

knocked up.."

"Rosa!" Dad's roaring aura emits out of him at such a speed I have to check that it isn't directed at me. My bedroom is now shrouded in a state of darkness, the lights flickering, as he places his command completely on Mum.

With a whimper escaping her it doesn't take long before she submits to his command. Like I've always said Mum can't breathe without Dad, it's like she stops functioning.

So for him to place a command upon her, she wouldn't dare to fight it...she never once has tried to fight it.

Knocked up... Mum has always had moments of madness. She was doing better in recent years,

maybe because Ares and I weren't as demanding on her time, but it's like I'm a child again, protecting Ares from her erratic behaviour.

What she has said cannot be taken back, she meant what she said...knocked up.

A wave of undeniable protection washes over me, my baby wasn't a mistake.

I want this baby, I might have been doubtful at first but my baby has done nothing wrong.

And I can't stay in a pack, in a household that will throw it back in my face, that will make any child of mine feel any less wanted, any less loved than if they had been conceived in a mate bond.

"Got it!" I tiptoe, grabbing a weekend bag off the top of my wardrobe and violently throwing clothing and necessities in.

I need to get out of here. I was past doing what they wanted, needing to put on a show...I was going to be a mother myself.

I needed to do what was right for me, what was right for my child.

"Cleo..." Dad's voice calls out to me, trying to sound calm against the concern of his mate's erratic behaviour.

"I won't stay where I am not wanted. Where I might damage the Arancea's good name. I understand..."

"No, she didn't mean that, Cleo just wait.." Dad reaches for me but I thrust my arm away from him.

"I bet you regret your own policies don't you. How when Doctor Sophia told you it was me...how you wished you could have turned a blind eye and let be go through with it."

"No, of course not." My words are cruel, Dad was the best man I knew...I was just hurting right now.

"Yes!" Her whisper creates such an uproar from Dad that for once I am frightened of the aftermath of his anger. But I'm not sticking around to find out.

I plummet down the stairs, passing Ares who was standing at the bottom listening to the commotion coming from my bedroom.

My hands reaching for Jaxon's car

keys and my phone...I had already

packed the charger along with the few essentials until I decide what to

do. The problem is, even

know is linked to my parents even Maya.

I can't go there, Alpha Jude will immediately tell my parents to come and get me. He won't want to get involved with another pack's drama. Not when we are all linked in an alliance.

I will be back here, under lock and key.

"Cleo? What's going on?" Ares tugs my arm, pulling me back towards him. The look of fear on his face. I sometimes forget that he is only sixteen.

"I can't be here." I shake my head out, adrenaline continuing to surge through me. My heart pumping far too fast, I needed to calm down and do it quickly...what it is hurts the baby.

"I'll come with you."

"No, no..." No Ares will not be tangled in my argument, I will continue to protect him from Mum's erratic behaviour.

He was the future Alpha, he has to stay here.

"I love you, I'll let you know where I am." My arms wrap around him before I pull away, pickin up my bag and walking through the front door.

I enter Jaxon's car, tearing out of the pack grounds not knowing where I am going, just knowing for the sake of me and my child I have to vanish for a while.