Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 499

“No, I have no mate.” For once, the truth.

“I see.”

“No you don’t actually…the father is a human.”

A moment is shared between us where he is considering me, and I him.

He seems to be contemplating something, his eyes pulling away first as he exhales loudly, casting his eyes back over the patrons.

He was a difficult male to read, to figure out. Each movement, each word of his is premeditated, pre-planned. Why was he worried about speaking out of term?

“I’m looking for a luna and an heir. My pack’s future relies on me providing them we an heir.”

“But the child wouldn’t be yours, the heir would be half human.”

“That doesn’t matter to me.”

“It doesn’t matter that the child not only won’t be yours, but would be half human?” I need to hear him say it again, because he was an alpha male and I’m struggling to think he would adopt not only a child that wasn’t a pack member, but a child that was half human…or so I have to make him believe.

“I don’t think you understand the severity of my situation. I have no heir, my father is already dead…I would like my mother to see the pack is secure before she dies.” His tone is more clipped this time.

“Your mother is sick?” I ask, thinking maybe he was up against time.

“No, just growing old.”

I nod out, he must be what in his mid forties, if she was a younger mother she would only be in her mid sixties.

He still had plenty of time to find his mate and produce an heir.

“You still have time to produce an heir of your own, to find your mate.” I offer out to him, trying to be encouraging.

“No, my mate is dead.”

“Oh I’m so sorry to hear that.”

“It was a long time ago. Just think of it, you…a luna…your child being raised by an alpha to protect a pack that will be theirs. That won’t be taken away from them.”

“It won’t?”

“No, I would make the contract unbreakable by me Cleo, you would give your child the opportunity to be more than nephew or niece to your brother, they would be alpha themselves.”