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

"Why are you being so fucking quiet about this?" He turns on Jace, his anger rising again.

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"They are both consenting adults, if they both want it...there are more complicated things in the world."Jace responds, shrugging his shoulders. Now wasn't the time to ask, but something was still bothering Jace, something that must have something to do with his new I need to tell them, they need to know that this isn't me just fooling around anymore... that this was it. She was it for me.

"She's mine...she's my mate." I declare to them, my voice strong and steady. Steadfast in my delivery. They needed to know there was no question about my loyalty, my feelings for her...no question of my integrity towards her.

For me, this was it...she was it. She was the one. I'm just more flipping annoyed at myself for not seeing it earlier, for not listening to that gravitational pull to be with her.

"I knew it!" Hector moves towards me, clapping my back almost as if he's been waiting for me to say this. Waiting for me to catch up ever since those words of his in the office, just the two of us. After he caught me sneaking out of her room. "You knew?" Jace rolls his eyes at his Father, seemingly not at all surprised.

"Not much happens around here without me finding out, remember that." Hector's eyes take a turn in holding each of ours in some kind of warning.

"Look, I'm sorry how I went about it, but I didn't want to betray you, yet I just couldn't keep away from her. I never would have done anything to intentionally hurt her."noveldrama

"That's if she'll have you of course..." Jace winks at me as he joins Hector in placing a hand on my shoulder. It's not a blessing but I'll take it for now.

"Just don't keep things hidden from us." Jaxon sighs out, finally calming down enough to let us talk rationally.

"Does she know that you are mates?" Jace asks me, an unreadable expression forming upon his face.

"She didn't have a wolf a few hours ago, she wasn't even breathing by herself..." I pause, swallowing down on a lump that has formed in my throat. The memory of her lying still in the hopstial bed returning to me. How close was I to losing her forever.

"I'm just waiting for it to click." She needs to get used to her wolf first, then she'll realise what we are to one another.

"So you're going to stick around for a bit?" Jaxon asks, his body language becoming less threatening.

"I will need to go back to training head quarters, but yes for now I will stay and sort things out with Josie."

"And then what?" Fuck me, Jaxon was acting like a father. I thought the Dad was meant to be the hard one to crack...not the brothers.

"Jaxon, I really don't know. I haven't thought that far ahead. I've come back to freshen up and return back to the hospital. I didn't want to leave her that long." I missed out the part where I knew they would be waiting for an explanation. He was only just starting to calm down, let's not irritate the beast even more.

"I was also going to put some calls out regarding the human hunters..." I start but Hector cuts me off mid sentence.

"I've put the alliance on alert already, any information you can find out would be appreciated. Let me show you what I've been sent already by the alphas in my inner circle." Hector gestures for me to walk towards his office.

I wanted to get back to Josie but her safety is my number one priority and as a member of this family, of this pack...I would do what I can to keep the Dark Phantom pack safe from another attack.