Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 57

Chapter 0057 

Chapter 0057 

Kaia POV 

I was back alone, back in a home to myself. 

But this time was different, the pack wasn’t ignoring me. I wasn’t being shunned. 

Word must have got around because every morning I opened the front door to find baskets of freshly baked bread and cakes, freshly picked fruit or vegetables from their gardens. 

They cared and that meant the world to me. 

I just couldn’t properly digest that right now. 

I was still healing. 

When I am ready I will thank them all with the gratitude I hold deep within me. 

My new home wasn’t near the pack borders a I had requested, it was close to the alpha mansion and pack house. 

Hector claims it is the only one available but I don’t believe him. I know for a fact that there are unused houses by the borders. 

He’s keeping a close watch on me. If I should leave, he’ll lose all bargaining power with the Amber Desert pack. 

Lose any chance of getting her out…what did he say, freeing her? 

She wasn’t a prisoner, I was their prisoner. She was loved and adored by the alpha, by the pack who helped keep the past from me. 

She didn’t need rescuing. 

Sleep I was struggling with. The silence of the night making more own thoughts louder, the moon’s powerful glow reminding me of what I have lost. 

Yet her peaceful presence helps gives me start to heal at the stillest of night. 

I was sleep deprived, my mind playing tricks on me. At night I could sometimes smell his burnt oranges and dark chocolate scent when I step outside to look up at the moon. The doctor said Lwould experience odd things, lack of smell, imaging scents that don’t exist. That with my wolf regaining her strength, yet the reducing pregnancy hormones confusing her just as much as me, that I might have a week or two of phantom symptoms. 

Why else would I imagine smelling his scent. 

The mate bond already trying to push me towards him, already trying to betray me once again. 

I won’t have it this time, I refuse to be the moon goddess’s puppet. 

Her entertainment. 

Chapter 0057 

+25 BONUS 

It’s Aubrey sitting in the front room when I come down from my morning shower that has me almost jumping out of my own skin. I didn’t sense her presence through smell or hearing at all. The doctor wasn’t 

wrong. 

“Kaia…” She jumps from my sofa as I scream behind her. 

“Aubrey…you scared me.” My hands clutch at my chest, my breathing heavy before I burst into laughter. At least for a change it wasn’t tears. 

“I’m sorry, I did knock.” 

“And yet didn’t wait for a response.” 

“I’ve been knocking daily Kaia, more than once. I need to check you are well.” 

She has been knocking and I do feel guilty, I was fond of Aubrey but I just needed to be alone. 

“Check?” 

“Okay, fine…he is worried…he wants to know you are okay. He says you are blocking him. How?” 

“Am I? Must be the hormones.” I full well know I am blocking him through the pack link. Just as I used to 

with Than. 

“He misses you…” She sighs as she walks towards me, trying to pull me into her arms. I don’t want to be touched right now, not by anybody. The fear of my inner turmoil leaking out is stopping me from leaving 

the house also. 

“Aubrey…stop.” 

“Kaia, please…I’ve never seen him like this. He’s not good, he’s trying to give you some space. But it is clear how much he misses you. How much he cares for you. Won’t you reach out to him, at least hear him out?” 

“Did you know Aubrey? Did you know about his mate?” 

“I didn’t know he had a mate, I had hoped…” 

She had hoped I was his mate. That’s what she was going to say before she corrects herself. 

“Look how well his had done, look at this pack. Look at all of this in such a short space of time. It’s as if he didn’t have a life before this pack.” 

“Believe me, he did.” 

“Won’t you at least listen….hear his side of the story. I’m not saying move back in but just let him explain.” This pack was different, and maybe I owe them for their kindness…just to hear their alpha out. 

“I’ll give it some thought.” 

“I’ll give you some space. If you need me, please let me know.” 

As soon as she leaves, I am left with her parting words. But rather then soothe me, they do quite the opposite.