Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 521

~ Jace ~

“So this is where you are hiding?” An overly aggressive kick to the stomach wakes me with a

start.

Josie…

“What do you want?” I growl out, my eyes reluctantly opening to the bright morning sunshine.

A pain in my neck informing me that I hadn’t slept on a bed.

I hadn’t made it back to the alpha house last night, instead finally succumbing to the need to sleep after downing a. entire bottle of whiskey I had taken from the kitchen.

The cold hard ground by the far border the only place I wanted to be for the night.

Once the Arancea’s had left, everybody knew something was wrong…there was no point

dancing around the issue.

I just didn’t want to address it.

So I walked into the house, swiped a bottle and stormed back out…earning a growl from Jaxon as I barged back past him.

There was nothing going on between him and Cleo but why had he given her his car, why had he

been all weird around her at the dinner table.

But then what does it matter to me, after what happened I might as well have verbally rejected her, reject the mate bond once and for all.

“Cleo’s parents wanted you to give them a tour of the pack..”

“You are joking right?”

“No, Jace, I’m not joking. What a surprise…your own mate’s parents wanting a tour of the pack you grew up in. What a pair of monsters they are…” I don’t appreciate her sarcasm when my heading is pounding.

“Can you not shout.” I grunt out reaching out for the whiskey bottle in the hope there was some

left, only for Josie to kick it out of my reach, the bottle now rolling down a slight slope before hitting

the iron cladded fence.

With a throbbing head I manage to sit up slowly, my head resting in my hands…without their support I don’t think I will be able to keep it upright.

Between the pain in my neck, the heavy head…and everything that had transpired between Callie and I, I was a fucking mess.