Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 375

~ Knox ~

I couldn’t keep my eyes off her, our session in the lagoon doing nothing to satiate this

permanent need within me. It just makes me want her more.

It comes from not just my human side, but also the wolf side. He’s desperate to mark her, to make her his.

I want to do this right by her, the marking.

Our relationship started in secret, in the darkness…I want to show the world what mate I will be to her in the light, in front of her pack and her family.

If I can wait, my wolf will have to wait.

Nobody has the right to question our bond with one another, yes I did things wrong at the beginning. If I could turn back time, I fucking would, but I can’t and I don’t want to give anyone the opportunity to doubt my commitment for her going forward.

I couldn’t commit before, I didn’t want to, I couldn’t have someone by my side. Live with that risk of losing her.

But knowing she has been destined to me, that she is mine to protect, to love…it’s changed me. And thinking I was going to lose her, that I had lost her….I’ve been given a second chance.

Something I never had with my family. I refuse to waste this second chance, especially when I’ve spent a lifetime longing for one.

She was wearing a black tight ribbed vest dress, paired with tanned wedges and oceanic blue

dangly earrings.

The entire outfit was subtle, yet she looked like a million dollars in it.

I can see the tightness of the material as it stretches around her pert ass and even how I

can make out the thong under her dress.

That alone makes me want to pull her away from

these other eyes on her and take her back to the alpha house. Where I can saturate my skin with her scent.

There we plenty of males here that haven’t set eyes upon the daughter of the alphas in a