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



- Knox -

"Here, that should hold them. With any luck they'll stick to the lower levels." I mutter to myself.

"Lower levels?" Red questions me. Damn, I forget how sharp her hearing is now.

"To finish off what they started..."

"But they are injured, unable to defend themselves?"

"I think that's the point."

"Heavens!" Her hands clasp at her chest, her body doubling over as she takes in deep breaths of air.

"They'll come up here." Doctor Abel grunts next to me as he helps to hold the furniture against the door. This was a very makeshift barricade but one that might just work.

"How do you know that?" I turn awkwardly, my back now pressed up against the barricade. We had piled it high with beds, chairs...anything with any weight behind it.

"Gut instinct."

"Well for once doc, I hope your gut is wrong." I never walked away from a fight, or hid from one. But I was praying that they wouldn't discover us up here.

"Kit, we have to help them." This was hard for Red, hard for the both of them. They spend their days saving lives, lives...that judging by the screams and gunshots on the lower levels...was being cowardly wiped out.

Attacking the injured, these hunters were callous cowards.

I know I'm asking too much of her, to sit back and let the attack unfold whilst she remains safe up here.

"We can't, they'll discover you.."

"I don't care!" She seethes out at me, her inability to be able to help those that needed saving right now, is causing her to spiral.

But she needs to stay safe, she needs to keep hidden. More was at stake here than this pack, if they got their hands on her. Each pack in existence will be threatened.

I didn't expect them to return so soon, and with this number. Where the fuck were they getting these fighters from.

If eyes could kill...

The love of my life, the only one fated to me is glaring daggers at me. Because I'm refusing to let her die, refusing to let her exit this room. If the situation wasn't so dire, I would laugh out.

I push off the barricade, the stacked objects moving unstably in my wake, as I close the distance between us. Her eyes watch my incoming movement with scepticism. She needs to know there is no doubt in my mind that keeping her here, is the right thing to do.

"I revisit the attack on my pack every night before I go to sleep. It's like a game I play with myself, what could I have done differently...how could I have kept them alive.

Should I have fought, should I have run for help. Only since meeting you have I seen it was out of my control, that there was nothing I could have done. I was just a boy..."noveldrama

"Yes, you were an innocent child Kit...you did nothing wrong."

"And I know that now, you've brought peace to me. Since being by your side, I've not played the game before I fall asleep...I haven't had too." "What are you saying?"

"I'm not playing the game anymore, I refuse too..."

"Kit!" Her hands reach up to cup my face but I catch them mid air and hold them into my chest.

"I'm making the decision for you. You can hate me for eternity, but as long as you live...that's my price to pay."

Her grey eyes stare back at me, gone are those sharp fierce daggers as they are replaced with softness. She heard every word I said.

The orange rim around her pupils glow as her wolf remains forward with her, but was still giving Josie full control.

Her beauty is unparalleled. Nobody will ever compare to Josephina, daughter of the alphas. Thats why as long as it is within my power to do so, I will keep her safe, keep her alive.

"Get over here!" Doctor Abel growls out as the gunfire grows closer.

"They are on this level."

This was it, they had come for her...but they won't get her.

I push my body up against the barricade, Josie doing the same. Humans are weak, it might just hold.

Silence falls upon us as we listen intently, the hunters trying to open the doors that we stand behind. They try to push their way through with brute force before I hear the clicking of weapons. They fire gun shots at the doors, trying to find a way in; the barricade holding solidly.

My eyes catch Josie's, her eyes finally glazing over into a mind-link...she could get word to warriors, I can get her to safety.

Her hand squeezes mine, her eyes still in a mind-link as she whispers..

"Jaxon is sending reinforcements..." Her mind-link cuts short, a ding sounding out....hot chest tightening panic grips me.

The elevator....we didn't block the elevator...