Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 479

~ Cleo ~

“Oh yeah, then explain to me why you smell like my brother.” He snarls at me, his nose sniffing again at the crease of my neck.

My body goes into panic mode, an instant threat nearby that needed to be avoided. Jaxon isn’t a threat but him finding out the truth is.

“What? No I don’t.” I take a sidestep, moving myself away from him…trying to laugh off his claim. Making him think he was barking up the wrong tree.

“Yes you do…in fact…you reek of him. You saw him…”

“That’s not possible. No, I haven’t even seen him, she was there….” Bitterness takes over me as the image of her in her lingerie flashes through my mind.

I catch myself as soon as the words leave my lips, slamming my eyes shut. I shouldn’t have just said that. I allowed my emotions to get the better of me.

“Who was there…Callie?” He shakes his head in confusion.

“Callie…” I repeat her name on my lips, swallowing hard as hot bile rises up to the back of my throat.

I feel sick just saying her name.

But she hasn’t done anything wrong, I am the one in the wrong. She is his fated mate after all.

She’s the one that should hate me, not the other way around.

She is the innocent party in all of this. A one night stand I shared with her own mate before she found him.

I’ve tarnished their mate bond before they have even marked one another. I’ll be forever seen by her as his dirty little secret.

“You saw her, why were you even there?”

“It doesn’t matter. ”

“Clearly it does.”

“Jaxon, drop it.” I seethe out, a warning in my voice.

“Cleo!” He ignores my warning, taking a step closer again as he releases his alpha aura into the room. He can’t command me, I’m not a pack member but that doesn’t make the air around me any easier to breathe, the oppressive sensation he was causing with the atmosphere any more bearable.