Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 588

~ Cleo ~

I was riding high off my post climax bliss until my hand pushes down on the door handle, where I

enter the alpha office, to find Callie sitting down by the window.

She shifts as she turns to find me entering, I think it’s the first time I have ever seen her lacking confidence.

“Is Jace not coming in?” She looks behind me in slight panic, her eyes widening as it dawns on

her it was just me and her.

“No, he wants us to talk alone. He stays you have something difficult to share.”

“Does he now?” She sarcastically chuckles out, shaking her head in disbelief.

“Isn’t that the truth?” A low rumble escapes me, I was reaching out here. She better not leave me hanging, this would be the deciding moment between us.

“The truth, I don’t know where to begin with the truth.”

“Well you need to start somewhere, because right now you look like a stage one cling-on. Clinging

on to my mate, to his family. He’s already assured me that you two have never been sexual..”

“No, absolutely not. You can trust us on that.” She looks appalled by the thought of being with Jace, something that she didn’t show when she was all over him since returning to the Dark Phantom pack.

“How so..”

“Because he isn’t my type.”

“But you were willing to be his mate, to be his luna. To take him from another.”

“I didn’t know until the night of the dinner party, that was the first time I knew of it. If I had known

before then, I would have never agreed to it.”

She looks back at the window, her eyes looking to the views that would have been hers.