Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond



Chapter 580

I am legally the luna of this pack, Alpha Than signed the deed himself.

Alpha Jace, on defeating Than is now the Alpha of this pack. This is a new start, this is where you think carefully about the pack you want to live in, the pack you want for your children to grow up in." I let my Luna aura roll off me and into the crowd staring back at me.

"There won't be a future, not if the Dark Phantom alphas take over, we will lose our identity, we will become a group pack."

"You already were, from the moment I signed those papers. From the moment Alpha Than invited me on to the pack lands...from when you all greeted me, welcomed me into your fold."

"How do we know that you will do right by us?" A male demands, his doubt earning a growl from Jace who takes a step in front of me, preparing to shield me if necessary.

"Because I have rejected my claim to the Clear Waters pack, I will remain here with my mate...and we will raise our child here. We offer you a future, a secured heir for the next generation....a do over. If you are willing to accept it."

It was more unnerving than I thought it would be to leave the Amber Desert pack grounds for the first time since arriving here.

So much has already changed in just over a week.

I had arrived hopelessly trying to secure the future of my unborn child, but leave with a mate, my child's father by my side, the opportunity to secure a future to rule our own pack

The meeting ended with the pack agreeing to give us a chance, to give us time to show them what type of leaders we can be.

Without a beta onsite to watch over the security of the pack in our absence, they agreed to maintain the border shift pattern until we returned.

That they would keep things smoothly running until we returned.

Right now, we couldn't ask for any more than that.

We needed people we could trust, we needed a new beta...we needed warriors that were committed to our cause. We couldn't afford to trust warriors just because we had inherited them from the previous alpha...we needed to consider all options.

I could feel Jace slightly anxious at also leaving the pack grounds so soon. As we move out of the gates, he even stops for a moment...talking to the guards before driving off.

We had a drive ahead of us but nothing compared to the four to five hour trip to the Dark Phantom lands...at least the Clear Waters was closer to us here, something that I think would be beneficial to Jace's relationship with Josie.

They were extremely close, the triplet bond between them unbreakable.

Arriving at the Clear Waters pack, it was the middle of the night. We both expected to find the alpha house still... everyone being asleep but when we pulled up it would appear each and every light was on.

Any chance of people being asleep inside, a minimal.

The pack was in mourning, the arrangements for Alora's funeral would have been planned out today by Kaia and Ezra.

But as I opened the car door, I could hear shoutingnoveldrama

even from standing outside of the alpha house.

Whoever was yelling didn't understand the importance of a mourning pack.

"Fuck's sake." Jace moves around the front of the car to stand next to me.

"What?"

"Callie's parents...I'm sorry." He loudly sighs, his head even rolling back as he closes his eyes to look up at the moon. If I didn't feel his frustration at himself through the bond, I would certainly sense it from his movement. He needed to forgive himself, he needed to move on.

I guess that was hard though when his fake ex mate and her parent's were inside his old house.

"It's okay...we will sort this out together." I could see the guilt clear in his demeanour, his frustration of bringing this down upon us.

Of them causing more issues for us when we were already dealing with so much already.

"I'm sure they will leave once they understand we are mates." I'm hopeful, something that Jace doesn't seem to share. He places an arm around my waist, the other moves up to cup the side of my face.