Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 583

“Are you okay?” Jace’s voice enters into my mind, his eyes similar to that of his brother’s concern.

How long had a I spaced out for. How long had I allowed my mind to wander…

“Yes…” Thankfully my voice sounds stronger in my mind than if I were to speak my answer.

“Are you sure?”

“I think I need to sleep.” I cut the mind-link, moving away.

“Hey Cleo.” Jace tries to pull me into him but I’ve stepped out of reach, turning my back on him as I head towards the hallway.

I needed to be alone, I needed to sleep.

“Excuse me, I think I need rest.” I offer out to the room before heading towards the stairs.

…..

Jace didn’t join me in the night, even if he had slept in the same bed and risen before me to check something within the pack lands…his scent was missing. No trace of it.

Meaning I had spent the night alone.

Something that hadn’t satiated my anger from last night. Even as I stood in the shower, I could feel my hands scrubbing that little bit harder upon my skin.

“Cleo?” Josie calls out to me from the bedroom as I was in the ensuite.

“Josie?”

“A few of us are going swimming this morning, did you want to join us?”

Swimming, most likely with Callie…no…no swimming wasn’t something I needed right now.

I needed to work off this frustration in me, this rising anger. I needed to train, to run…something a bit more vigorious than a gentle swim.

“No, but could you ask Ares to wait for me.”

“Sure.”

Tomorrow was the planned date for Alora’s funeral. I just needed to get through today, then tomorrow would be a day spent in sorrow and sharing of fond memories of Kaia’s sister.

I just had to survive today, put aside my anger…try and work it off before it exploded out of me.

No matter how much I try to think of something else, all I can think of is Callie in her red sexy lingerie.

Of how she thought I was house staff. How my mate was showering in the background…she must have seen him naked. Seen what is mine.

They must have been sexual, how could they not have been.

I didn’t need him beside me 24/7, but he had already missed out on so much…I didn’t want him missing out any more.

I’m not being melodramatic, I’m trying to be understanding but he isn’t really helping himself.

“Erm…maybe…” Josie looks at me, panic in her eyes as I turn to straighten up, readjusting my waistband that was now digging into my tummy.

“Josie, I’m pregnant…I’m not going to break from a little work out with my brother.” I’m short with her, and I’m never short with her…with anyone. She was my best friend, she was just looking out for me.

I know this, but I just needed to get out of here.

I needed space, I needed to train.

“Ares?” I call out to my brother. I marking Jace and by being marked by him, I had lost my mind-link with Ares…something I hadn’t prepared myself for.

I head towards the door, movement coming from the living room…to hell if he thinks he is stopping me.

I turn when my own brother doesn’t follow me, to find Jace leaning casually against the hallway wall, a smirk upon his face as his heated gaze bores into me.

“You’re not training!” He commands through the mind-link.

“To hell I’m not.”I growl back out through the mind-link, a mental middle finger up at him.

If you don’t spend the night with your mate, then this is what you get the next day. Perhaps he’ll remember that tonight.