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

Hector POV

I could see the hurt in her eyes and I want to take the pain from her. Want to burn in hell for an eternity if it means she felt no pain, that she was safe.

I thought in not telling her, I was keeping her safe, but I've allowed ourselves, our mate bond, to be attacked by others.

A mistake I won't make again.

"I should have told you, but I thought in not telling you, I was keeping you protected. Keeping you safe. Protecting you from the past."

"I can't believe this...everything is so..." Her confusion was clear on her face, if I could not already feel it through our bond. Our bond had been growing stronger since the Red Thorn pack. I could feel she was close to finally accepting, that pull to claim her was increasingly difficult to deny. "Fucked up?" I finish her sentence.

"So I did kill him...I must have found out that he killed my mother." Her eyes hold a sadness, she was questioning herself...questioning the foundations of the person she is, the person I have completely fallen in love with.

My love for her was universal, unconditional and nothing I had ever felt before for anyone.

For anyone, no matter what I might have thought as a younger person...this love I have with Kaia...this is what the Moon Goddess had planned for me.

I don't respond to her, not even when she turns to look up at me.

What can I say.

To me she was innocent, she was the purest of souls...so for her to take his life. It must have been for something so unthinkable, so sickening...that it forced her to take action.

"I wish I could remember." She looks away, biting down on her lower lip.All content is © N0velDrama.Org.

"No, it's best that you don't." I let my touch calm her.

"How can you..." She scoffs at me.

"What?"

"Still want to be with me, after what I did."

No, I wouldn't let her question our mate bond, question what the moon goddess has gifted us with.

I bend my height, making sure my eyes are aligned with hers, making sure she can see the seriousness first hand.

"You don't think I haven't done worse, you don't think I haven't killed? I am an alpha, as are you."

"There's killing to protect the pack and then there's killing your own family." She mouths out, her eyes darting to the door.

She didn't need to worry, she was the safest she'll ever be here within our pack, with me.

No one would ever trade her in from my pack, no one would ever double cross her. She was their Luna, even from when she first arrived. They took to her, they fell in love with her even back then.

"I need to be alone." She sighs out, trying to push me away. I won't let her put a block up between us, not after we have come so far.

"No, you don't get to walk away from

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me. We are in this together. I don't know what happened in that hospital room but whatever you did, you did because you had to. Because he posed a threat to the pack, to you or to Alora." I growl, gripping her closer to me. My wolf not letting her go.

"To Alora?"

"Yes, she wasn't blind to him..shit... didn't mean it like that. I mean, she hadn't lived with him, hadn't known him, Kaja She didn't love him, not like you did. She could see through his façade." Their relationship was different. She was separated at birth and had her own parents,

"What about Than?"

"What about Than?" I low rumbling growl escapes from my chest.

"How do we move on from this?"

"Love, there is nothing to move on from. I've known all along who he was to you, what he did. I just didn't want you remembering, but now you do. You did nothing wrong.

He used you, they tricked you. You fled, and I have thanked the moon goddess ever since I found you in the coffee shop." I pull her fully into my arms, relief starting to wash over me that she wasn't edging away anymore.

"I'm no longer married to him?" She looks up at me, inhaling my scent.

"No longer, it's sorted, I sorted it."

She doesn't comment, she just gives an understanding nod.

"Is there anything else you need to tell me?" Her eyes look at me expectingly, as if she can already see into my soul. As if she already knows I am hiding something else. Fuck, I can't tell her. I can't bring myself to admit it out loud.

I can't break her.

"Alpha, Luna?" A knock on the door interrupts us.

"We are busy!" I yell out to Aubrey.

"We have visitors at the gates." Her voice calls out from behind the door. Kaia's eyes look up at me before she pulls away.

""Who is it?" Kaia walks towards the door and opens it.

"Two alphas Luna, an Alpha Orpheus and Alpha Than." Aubrey's eyes dart to me in warning.