Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 421

~ Knox ~

“Here, that should hold them. With any luck they’ll stick to the lower levels.” I mutter to myself.

“Lower levels?” Red questions me. Damn, I forget how sharp her hearing is now.

“To finish off what they started…”

“But they are injured, unable to defend themselves?”

“I think that’s the point.”

“Heavens!” Her hands clasp at her chest, her body doubling over as she takes in deep breaths of air.

“They’ll come up here.” Doctor Abel grunts next to me as he helps to hold the furniture against the door. This was a very makeshift barricade but one that might just work.

“How do you know that?” I turn awkwardly, my back now pressed up against the barricade. We had piled it high with beds, chairs…anything with any weight behind it.

“Gut instinct.”

“Well for once doc, I hope your gut is wrong.” I never walked away from a fight, or hid from one. But I was praying that they wouldn’t discover us up here.

“Kit, we have to help them.” This was hard for Red, hard for the both of them. They spend their days saving lives, lives…that judging by the screams and gunshots on the lower levels…was being cowardly wiped out.

Attacking the injured, these hunters were callous cowards.

I know I’m asking too much of her, to sit back and let the attack unfold whilst she remains safe up here.

“We can’t, they’ll discover you..”

“I don’t care!” She seethes out at me, her inability to be able to help those that needed saving right now, is causing her to spiral.

But she needs to stay safe, she needs to keep hidden. More was at stake here than this pack, if they got their hands on her. Each pack in existence will be threatened.

I didn’t expect them to return so soon, and with this number. Where the fuck were they getting these fighters from.

If eyes could kill…

The love of my life, the only one fated to me is glaring daggers at me. Because I’m refusing to let her die, refusing to let her exit this room. If the situation wasn’t so dire, I would laugh out.