Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 309

“I will do.”

“So what’s your background?”

This is why I preferred the alpha house, less questions about my own past. I get it, I was the visitor, the one everyone wants to get the dirt on.

“I was a bit of a drifter until I started the program…you?” I vaguely respond.

“Born and raised here.” He proudly smiles out as he reaches aross the table for the salt and pepper.

I would be wasting my time in trying to find information out from Riley. Not only was he the pack’s beta but being born and raised here, his loyalty to the alpha family would be unwavering. As it should be.

“How long are you here for?” Riley asks just as one of the guards I was shadowing tonight gives me the sign that he was going back to his post.

“Not long, the new intake will start soon and I’ll have to be back for that.” I stand up, picking up my tray and placing it on the cleaning trolley.

“Well if I can do anything to help whilst you’re here…” Beta Riley offers out before I leave.

“Will do.” I call back to him before exiting.

By 2am I decide to call it a night, unlike the guard I was shadowing…I had been up all day and now most of the night. If I had any chance of getting up at 6am for training, I needed to call it a night.

Making my way upstairs in the alpha home, I pause at the top of the sitairs…suddenly increasingly conflicted.

“Check on her.” My wolf demands in my mind, his need all day to see her driving me to the point of almost insanity.

It’s also one of the reasons I have kept away, knowing how damn desperate he has been to see her. He’s growing too attached, he’s never been like this with a female.

He’s always too keen to throw them away after spending just one night with them. Boring, he finds them boring, not her though. There is something about Red, something in her taste, in her scent that makes him want more.

“No.” I fight back, my body unmoving as he tries to push forward.

“Go check on her.” He growls threateningly.

“She’s fine.”