Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 584

~ Jace ~

This place feels different to me now.

I feel less connected with it, which is odd because I hadn’t ever taken on the alpha title from Mum, and neither has Josie yet.

Technically nothing has changed, I meant the same to the Clear Waters pack as I did a few days ago…but now as the alpha of the Amber Desert pack, being here…there is no doubt in my mind that I have made thre right decision.

That I wasn’t meant to rule this place, Josie was.

I’m going to miss these damn views though.

Even in the darkness of night time, as the moonlight cascades upon the gentle sea waters ahead…offering a fluorescent beam for miles, you can still make out just how beautiful it was here.

This place truly was picturesque. An unmatched landscape that I’ll need to go out of my way to find in the Amber Desert lands to try and compete with.

Try, and fail.

“Congratulations, you are a marked man!” Jaxon pulls my eyes away from the gentle waters.

“That I am.” I smile back at my brother who slowly approaches me, it would seem he also was struggling with sleep at the moment.

I don’t think I will be able to rest properly until our auntie is laid to rest and Medea is caught. No matter how long it takes I will find her, I will kill her.

“You did right not to wait.” Jaxon claps me on the back, pure happiness for me buzzing through the triplet bond. I wish I could see him with a mate, with a child on the way.

“Yeah well, we’ve already wasted too much time, I wasn’t going to wait for a ceremony. Also, the pack needed to know from the outset who was in control, and that is now Cleo and I.”

That sensation of happiness fizzles out and is replaced with a level of sadness. He crouches down, collecting a stone from the ground only to throw it into the waters below.

“You’re just so far away.” He sighs out.

“I’ve been far away for a year Jaxon, at least you know where I am now.”

“That’s true, just…things keep changing. First Josie, now you.”

“Hmmm.” He was right, things were changing…things had changed.

“Now a baby…” He blows his cheeks out, yes…the biggest change of all.

“A baby.”

“You are going to be a father.”