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

- Jace ~

"I promise...it's not what you think!" I hear Jaxon grunt out as he tries to push me off him but I'm too busy pummelling him with punch after punch.

How dare he even try to take advantage of her in that kind of way.

"Why else were you in her bedroom?" I'm like a man possessed as all I see is my brother protecting his face through red-hazed eyes.

"Because..."

I continue to punch as the wetness of blood coats my knuckles. I continue to drive punch after punch into his face, hands trying to grip at me from behind but I'm too fast for them, too angry for them. "Jace stop!" I hear Auntie Alora's voice from behind me, she must also be trying to pull me off him.

He's decided that he's had enough of my punches when he lands a harsh blow to my temple, not holding back on the weight behind it.noveldrama

"Because...I needed her to tell me the truth!" He growls out at me, his wolf on the cusp of shifting. A warning, one more punch from me and he'll let loose in my sitting room.

"What truth?" I pull him up off the floor by the scruff of his collar just high enough, a fist threatening to knock him out once for all. If he's so much as touched her I'll fucking kill him.

I pull my hand back....preparing to land the hardest of punches when an icy coldness spreads through me, first at my chest then out...as if my blood pumping through my veins was being frozen over. All energy was leaving me.

My hand drops from Jaxon's shirt as I start to claw at my chest.

"Enough!" I hear Mum seethe from behind. I turn to find her eyes an ethereal blue, she was doing something to me. She was causing this.

Was she taking my strength away from me. Is this what her ability does, is this what he feels like.

I've never experienced it myself but judging by her goddess like glare, that was in fact what she was doing to me.

And it fucking hurt too.

Groaning, I move to the floor, my body weakening as she forces my wolf to retreat...my entire body to collapse on the ground.

One second I was a powerful alpha, my aura dominating the room...the next as weak as a new born pup, collapsing to the floor.

"Enough Kaia." I look up to find Dad placing a firm grip upon her waist, his teeth grazing against his mate mark on her neck...something that knocks her out of her ability.

Her eyes already bleeding back

towards her normal green, just as Josie growls out moving towards Jaxon first...a orangey red light emitting from her hands as the cuts and bruises upon his face heal up.

She then moves on to me, her hand cupping the side of my face as I feel her healing ability spread out through me. I feel my energy returning to me as Knox makes it known he's struggling to watch

Josie's energy decline.

It was a knock on effect between us, Dad warning Mum to stop, then Josie jumping in to heal us, only for Knox to growl out in warning for her to stop.

Both females paling having used their abilities...in very different ways.

"I'm sorry Jace, but you needed to be stopped!" Mum defiantly holds my glare as I rise off the floor, my eyes turning to her...my jaw tensed from fury.

I take stock of what I had just done. Both Mum and Autnie Rosa had been knocked to the ground as I

acted out in a fit of rage, something that never happened to me.

"Where is she?" I demand out to the room.

"I told you we don't know. We can't find her..." Uncle Orpheus growls out at me as he holds his trembling

mate to his chest. I'm a dick, I've

terrified her... let my anger get tenet

point my wolf took over control.

"We've been to every pack we know.." Ares adds.

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"You have?" Auntie Rosa pulls out from Orpheus chest, her eyes looking up as she bites down on her bottom lip.

"Of course love, she's vulnerable..." He strokes her hair, placing it behind her ears, a tender moment shared between the two of them. He always has a special technique in calming her.