Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 437

~ Josie ~

“You are mated to that monster?”

“He wasn’t always a monster. Greed can get to us all.”

“He’s killed innocent people in his attempt to gain access to my mother, so you will forgive me if

I don’t want to hear of a time when he wasn’t a monster. The monster I saw before me was void

of any humanity. He used my friend to infiltrate our pack, then allowed him to be violently

attacked for protecting me.”

I have to unclench my jaw, it had tensed painfully at the anger I felt for the alpha that led the

attack on the Dark Moon pack, the monster that had run away as his warriors continued to fall. Kit’s lips kiss the sensitive part of my neck, his action working to soothe me, to calm me.

“This friend of yours…”

“Abel..did you know him?”

“I didn’t know of an Abel, I must have left before he was born. But it sounds as if he was

manipulated, like so many, to act out the commands of the alpha.

They are a pack, you need to remember that. Would a pack member of your father’s rule go against him? The alpha command is a powerful and painful thing to fight against.

Their plan would have been in motion for a long

time and there isn’t anything you could have done to stop it.”

My head turns backwards towards Kit, sadness washes over me from the fact that Abel had

been corrupted from an early age.

That he meant the pack harm, a pack that had welcomed him and offered him shelter as a doctor.

For some reason he had decided to spare me, but if the pack had fallen then I would have chosen to fall with it.

Which means, and as much as it pains me to admit it, Mum couldn’t have let him live. He would have told the white moon things…if he hadn’t already.

“How did you break his command?” Kit asks out behind me, his voice hoarse as he, like me, is

concentrating on every word that she says.

“I wasn’t born into the White Moon pack therefore I didn’t have that necessary, engrained from

birth, need to adhere to it’s rules.

I tried, believe me I tried but when I realised the corruption, what they planned to do. I had to break away, I couldn’t be a part of that.

Being mated to a member of the pack means all contact with the outside world is forbidden. It wasn’t until my mate became alpha that I was granted access to the historical files, that I could read up on the past white wolves.