Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 397

My sight, with my wolf now, is clearer. I can see everything with clear vision, even at this distance. My heart sinks when the naive hope that it was a handful of rogues disappears. It’s a swarm, an invasion of fully kitted gun bearing hunters.

Our wolves are taking them down but not quick enough…bullets are being fired as a line of hunters stand at the back shooting randomly into the crowd of wolves. More screams hit me through the pack link that I keep trying to suppress.

I need to be there, I can take them all down with ease and still maintain a safe distance.

Mum hasn’t shifted yet. She is among only a few that remain still in human form. Dad, Jaxon and Jace in wolf form, as is Knox.

Why isn’t Mum shifting…

I scream in panic as she is knocked to the ground by a bullet, my heart racing…that’s it I need to be there. I can feel she is safe, that it is a skin surface wound but I can’t just stay and wait. Watch my family fight, I need to do something.

I move away from the window, rushing out of their bedroom door…my hand on the stair railing just as the front door is kicked in with a brute force. Holding my gasp, I take a step back out of view as four figures covered in complete black attire step into the house, their guns raised in front of them preparing to take aim.

My heart pounds uncontrollably in my chest as I reach behind my back to take my gun out of my waistband.

Holding it firmly within my grip. These bastards that have entered into my house will not leave alive. They have entered their own tombs.

I need to act now, before they come up the stairs.

Trying to calm the rising adrenaline inside of me, I take a step forward, preparing to ambush them as they have divided in order to scout out the lower level, when Jaxon pushes into my mind.

“Josie?”

“Jaxon?”

“What’s wrong?” He growls out as he must be continuing to fight whilst also mind-linking me.