Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 602

~ Cleo ~

“We arent looking for trouble Dad. I just don’t feel comfortable letting Callie go alone. If Jace

was here, he would go with her.

They won’t do anything with another pack’s luna around. Besides, Ares is coming with us.” Dad blocks the very vehicle that Callie and I both plan to take. Callie herself wasn’t keen for me to come but I didn’t trust her parents, her mother especially.

“You aren’t going end of.” Dad bluntly declares, as if I was still a little girl seeking his permission.

“Dad, this isn’t up for discussion.” I roll my eyes, my arms crossing in front of me as I prepare to wait him out.

“Then I’m coming with you.” He grunts out, finally moving to open the car door for me.

“What about Mum, you can’t leave her alone.”

“Ares will stay and remain with her. If it is only a fleeting visit like you say it is, she can cope

without me for a few hours. They won’t try anything with an alpha with you.”

“I appreciate your offer Alpha Arancea but it really is unnecessary. As I have told Cleo repeatedly, I can go alone.” Callie sighs out, standing to the side of us.

“I don’t want you to go by yourself.” I can’t just remain here, not when I know her parent’s are up to no good.

She hasn’t said so, but I think a part of her is hoping they have changed their minds. That they are going to welcome her back. That they’ve seen the error in their ways and want to make amends…I’m not so sure.

“She won’t be going by herself…” An unexpected male’s voice calls out to us.

It was Colt, walking towards us coming from the direction of the hospital. I didn’t even realise he had been discharged from the doctor’s care.

“You should be resting.” Callie growls out to him, her tongue clicking in disapproval.

“I’ve rested long enough, I won’t let you go alone.”

“Colt.”

“I won’t let you go alone. Thank you Luna and Alpha, but I can take it from here.”

Take what from here, he can barely stand up. Beads of sweat appear on his upper brow from the

“So…you and Jace huh?” He steals my eyes away from my window where I was taking in the landscape.

“Hmm me and Jace.” I slowly nod out, my eyes travelling down to my belly. Now it was Jace, me and a baby.

“I knew there was somebody, I just knew it.”

“No you didn’t.” Callie disagrees from the front.

“Yes I did. He was always so cagey about his past, I knew he was running from something. From someone. If he wasn’t running, then he wouldn’t have found us. So I guess fate works in mysterious ways.”

It sure does.

“Who are you running from?” I ask out, keen to know more about this male beside me.

“Me? No one. Unlike Callie and Jace, I don’t have a pack. I was born as a rogue, which meant pack life has never really appealed to me. I guess, I don’t know any different.”

A rogue…he certainly does smell like a rogue. He doesn’t have that rogue smell.

“Born a rogue?” Dad repeats from the front just as he takes a turning, guided by Callie.