Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 220

Kaia POV

I didn’t even know Than, yet I found myself hurt that he would use me in such a way.

“How could you do that to your mate’s twin?” His eyes remain on Hector but I want him to look at me. He is thinking of the threat before him, but not all threats come from muscles.

“I didn’t know you were twins.” He barely mutters as Hector’s arm presses against his vocal cords, making what I can hear raspy.

“You didn’t think we were related?” I retort, except for a few slight differences…we were physically the same person.

“No Kaia…Can you stop..” He growls at Hector as he tries to push him off, his voice hoarse from his throat still being restricted.

“Why are you here?” I growl at Than and Orpheus, their arrival was bad timing.

Why were they also together. Just when I think Hector and I manage to jump over a hurdle, an even bigger obstacle comes in our path.

“We come in peace Hector.” Orpheus walks towards me unfazed by what was happening before him, not potentially interested in breaking it up, instead walking over to me and looking at me intently.

I watch him very carefully as his body leans into mine, my eyes flash to Hector who is watching him like a predator.

At first I think he is going to smell my neck and I am readying to grab his throat when he pulls back away from me…his odd behaviour making my wolf push forward just below the surface.

She was just as puzzled by the young alpha as me.

“Why are you both here...together?” My attention is on Orpheus who seems to move around Hector’s office, touching things…even pulling at books in random on the book case.

“Than and I are related.” He responds, his back to me.

“Hector…” I hear Than growl against Hector’s relentless throat hold.

“Medea, Than’s Mother is cousins with my Father…” My eyes dart to Hector, no wonder he was keen to get us out of the Red Thorn pack as quickly as possible.

So Medea must have grown up in the Red Thorn pack, no wonder Hector’s Mother never stood a chance against this shifter world…I was a full werewolf yet I was still learning something new every day.

What must a human have thought.

“I need to visit a pack member in the hospital, when I get back I want you both gone..” I need space, space to digest another bombshell of information…I had been married to Than.

But not because he actually wanted me, no because I looked like his mate and could be used…used for the sole purpose to harvest my organs. What a sick dickhead.

…..

I was trying not to overthink things. I was trying to just keep one foot in front of the other.

As I walked towards the hospital to visit Rosa, pack members smiled as they passed…wishing me good day as their Luna.

Questions…I had so many questions.

But right now I wanted to check on Rosa, I wanted to see how much better she was doing…

I needed tor remove myself from the office, I needed to remove myself from a toxic situation.

As I enter the hospital room, I hadn’t braced myself for the reality of Rosa’s true battle with her current mental state. On what I found when I entered her room.

I expected brightness, I expected laughter…what greeted me was sombreness, darkness...bleakness.

Her eyes didn’t even look to me as I enter…even as her mother walks towards me, her hands reaching for mine and thanking me for taking the time to visit. It’s as if Rosa’s body was here…but her mind is elsewhere.

“How is she?” It feels like the worse question to ask, because the answer is already before me. But yet it seems like the most fitting of questions.

“Luna…thank you for coming. She is doing a lot better.”

A lot better? I swallow down my words because here is her mother, a pack member of mine now, that I can feel through the pack bond is beyond exhausted…waiting with hope that her daughter, her darling girl, will get better.

Will be back home with her.

“What can I do?” I feel awful for not coming sooner.

“Just you coming means the world to us. Her Father usually sits with her in the day and I do the night, but he was just too tired today.”

“You’ve been all last night and now?” She must be so tired, not that she was letting on. She’s the kind of mother I hope mine was like…

“I wouldn’t be able to sleep knowing she would be alone…” Her eyes fight back the tears that threaten to glisten.

“She won’t be alone, I’ll be with her. Please, go home…sleep, eat…I’ll stay until you return.”