Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 354

~ Josie ~

His arm brushes against mine, his breath already on my neck. Tingles erupt across my skin as I watch him reach for the jar and place it down in front of me.

I don’t even turn, I know who it is. It is only his scent that would cause such a reaction from my body. A reaction that seems more intense all of a sudden, even harder to fight.

“I knew doctors made the worse patients.” My head rolls back exposing more of my neck to him. Suddenly his voice had the potential to command me. I’m not saying I wouldn’t fight it, but to fight it would be a struggle.

His voice had a new tone to it, a new weight behind it…something I couldn’t quite understand. Something I didn’t really want to understand. I just didn’t want this feeling of complete rapture to ever end. I was going to enjoy this new Knox for as long as I had him. I’d worry about the heartbreak at a later stage.

“Technically I’m not a doctor.” I continue to lean into him, my back curling into his chest as my wolf pushes forward. She seemed to like Knox, so far he was the only male that she would leap forward for. However she has only, through my eyes, seen the men in my family or Doctor Abel. So there wasn’t much competition.

“You should be resting…not working.” His fingers lace around my waist.

“I’m not working…I wanted to fix what my brother caused.” I turn, now pressed against my work top and his brick wall of a body.

“It’s nothing, nothing I can’t handle and nothing I didn’t deserve.”

No, he didn’t deserve this. Never would he deserve this.

I touch the corner of his mouth gently with my finger tips before trailing my hand up to his eye to touch. He doesn’t flinch from my touch but he does close his eye and tense his jaw, a sign that it was still causing him discomfort.

Red molten hot anger starts to boil within me again…

“Wait until I see him.”

“No…” He grips the side of my wrist, his head shaking in protest.

“It is done, we have handled it in our way.” His eyes seek into mine, he wants me to reassure him that I’ll drop this.

I sigh out, instantly calming him but I won’t let this go. It wasn’t fair, I was just as much to blame..what was Jaxon going to do…hit me as well? No, then why does he think it is okay to punish Knox.

“Well…as you are here now, in my nest of remedies…” I hoist myself up on the worktop, pulling him in closer to me and wrapping my legs around him to trap him close to me. He doesn’t fight against me in fact his lips are almost on mine before I place a small amount of my remedy at the corner of his mouth.

“I’m sorry.” I whisper out as I blend the remedy into the wound.

“Listen to me, you have nothing to apologize for. Compared to the emotional torment you’ve put me through…this…and this…” He points at his lip and at his eye as I apply cream there also.