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

"It had been the alpha that attacked the pack. Kaia's own father killed each pack member to retain power." Hector finishes what Kaia couldn't. "What?" Both Josie and Jace gasp out at the same time.

"He wanted to utilise the power of the white wolf for himself. After his death...the Nightshade Reformed pack was inundated with attacks by a neighbouring pack. A pack that had be in cahoots with the White Moon pack. A pack that claimed ownership of the white wolf. A pack that has now set its sights on you, Josie."

"Well I'm not a white wolf."

"No...you have the potential to be of even more use to them. If captured and corrupted for their gain, your healing powers could make their fighters unstoppable.

An invincible army that would spread across this planet, and not just in the werewolf world."

"I would never help them!" Josie says with unbreakable determination.

"Can you say that darling, when you aren't pushed to the extreme, to breaking point. Everyone has a weakness, you just have to find it.

What if they have something of yours, something you want more than anything to protect...a sibling...a child...a mate?" Josie's terrified eyes cast upon me, an ominous feel taking over the incomplete mate bond. "Don't do that, don't fucking scare her like that!" I warn out, my fists clenching as tiny balls by my sides.

"But it's the truth Knox. You talk about taking our daughter away, that you can keep her safe.

Where really, it's here she is the safest, here we can protect her from within."

"But she was attacked, in your own home."

"After nineteen years of no attacks, of wiping out the enemy at the time..."

"Oh come on Hector. You didn't wipe out the enemy. You've given them the advantage...you've

allowed them to bide their time. Restore their resources, gain manpower.

I can see now that you haven't been in control. You've just been biding your time, grateful every night that the borders have remained secure. They've been a ticking time bomb." "And what would you do, what would you have done instead?"

"I would have faced them, I would have destroyed them."

"You don't think I didn't try, you don't think that's what I wanted to do. To wipe out each and every one of them for daring to think they could take my mate off me.

I made a choice Knox, a choice to build a life with Kaia, to not have children raised in conflict. Especially after what the pack members of the Nightshade Reformed had been through.

You don't have to win the battle to win the war Knox. Something that I would have expected you to know...perhaps you aren't the right mate for my daughter after all."

My eyes burn at his words.noveldrama

"Dad!" Josie growls out only for me to cut her off. I'm not standing for that. He's angry, angry for a number of reasons but he has no right in questioning my bond with Josie.

"Josie is mine Hector! I am her only mate...I am the one she will be with for the rest of her life. She is mine and mine alone." I would never, ever, think about claiming another mate over Josie.

I don't care what past love triangle he found himself in, but he dare not question what we have.

"Careful Knox!" Kaia warns me with a low rumble, her eyes vicious as I continue to stare out her mate.

"Stop it all of you. This is what they want. They want inner fighting, they want to create disruption within the pack. Pick us apart to pick us off. I say we attend to the injured, we bury the dead, we help the bereaved and we show them that we are united, that we are together." Josie states, her chin tilting upwards as she steps further into the office.

"I agree with Josie, it's time to be truthful and come together." Jace confirms as he takes a step closer to his sister, standing by her side.

"I'm in agreement to. Let's carry on as we were, and when they come for us again...we will be ready!" Jaxon nods in agreement, moving to stand united with his siblings.

Why do I have a feeling my past is about to repeat itself.