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



- Josie -

It was working, we are making a dent into their numbers.

I can't look in fear of losing concentration but I can sense Kit is near me, that he has joined the fight alongside Jaxon. I fight harder, wanting to get to him...to touch him, feel how wounded he is.

"Keep going Josie..." Mum's voice rings out in my head as we stand back to back within the protective bubble Dad and my uncle's had created.

For each injury on our side that I heal, Mum takes energy from the enemy. I could feel my energy depleting, feel the warm glow struggling to keep its full strength.

I had to keep going, just a little while longer and it will be finished.

"Josie..." I can hear him calling for me, telling me to rein it in...but as long as pack members are being injured, then I'll keep healing them. We had already lost too many this night.

I don't know how I am doing it, whether it's because I am by Mum's side, her own energy mixing with mine somehow...but I am able to heal without touching the wounded.

I can't explain it, I don't understand it myself...but I trust this source of goodness leading out of me.

"How are you ladies holding up?" Dad grunts through the multiway mind-link open to Mum, Jaxon and myself.

"Fine..." Mum responds, not even I believe her.

"Try harder to reassure me!" Dad growls out as he throws a male fighter onto the ground.

"Who's that?" Jaxon asks out, not sounding as if he is putting any effort in. But he is, we all are.

"Who's what?"

"The man...just watching."

"That's the Alpha of the White Moon pack, and this his army." Dad rumbles out as he blocks us again.

"He's the one after Mum and Josie?"

"Yes...No Jaxon, wait."

In my peripheral vision I spot Jaxon dart away from us. My eyes follow him; he charges towards the alpha, taking out plenty of fighters, saving Mum the time of draining their energy from them.

But he has branched away, he's just allowed his anger to govern his fighting.

As he gains distance on the alpha, the last group of males that had been standing watching with their leader are finally commanded into action. With

a flick of his hand they come for my brother, ten of them shifting simultaneously, moving towards him to take him out.

"Jaxon, watch out." I scream out through the link, my wolf already pushing me away from the protective circle as I move to help him.

I already didn't know where one of my brothers was right now, I couldn't feel Jace near us.

Fear gripping me that he was fatally injured and needed help. I needed to find him, but I couldn't leave the fight and I couldn't let my other brother get injured.

"Shit, Josie wait..." kit roars out as I move towards my brother as he is knocked backwards onto the ground.

"I'm fine Josie, take down the Alpha..." Jaxon orders at me through the mind-link, his hands fighting off his attackers.noveldrama

"But..." I hesitate as the wolves on top of him start to bite into him. I start to search for his wounds, to help heal him when his alpha aura ploughs into

me.

"I'll be fine, finish this...finish it now!" He roars at me, throwing his alpha command onto me.

I see him, standing there alone.

Unshielded.

He's come for my family, he came for my mother.

I shift as I see a gap towards him, a gap that I could make it through...human to human.

I want him to look into my human eyes as I kill him, as I watch the life leave his.

I start running, ignore the shouts of protests behind me. How many have died, how many will die whilst this man remains alive.

His eyes are on me, a smirk landing on the corner of his mouth. Stopping, I bend down unashamedly

ripping a shirt from a fallen fighter before wrapping it around me.