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



- Knox -

"Any news?" I turn my head awkwardly as Jaxon enters the sitting room, his fingers turning his phone in his hands.

"No nothing. I've searched the entire pack.

We've managed to retrieve every dead body...if he was injured, he would be here...somewhere."

Jaxon pinches the bridge of his nose, his frustration at Jace's disappearance clear.

Nobody has heard from Jace since the attack, nobody currently knows where he is.

He's just vanished.

If he hadn't already disappeared then we would be scaling every part of this pack in numbers, but after his behaviour at the wedding party it leads me to think he has left again.

Not knowing a little while later a brutal attack would be launched on this pack and his family.

His disappearance is only adding more worry onto the alpha family that have already been through so much tonight.

"I might check the surrounding borders again." Jaxon murmurs out, sleep depravation kicking in as his words sound slurred.

"No, rest...I will help you at dawn. It's still too dark out there, even with our night vision ability, it would

be better to search in the day light. You can still feel him through the sibling bond?"

"Yes."

"Then you know he is alive; I imagine he has just gone for a few days to cool off. Something at the wedding pissed him off, he's just calming down."

I move Josie slightly in my arms, I was getting cramp in my upper thighs from not moving for hours.

She finally fell asleep clinging on to me, her sobs slowly dying out as she succumbed to sleep.

Her fingers were gripping onto me even now in her sleep, I couldn't leave her...she needed me even though she was unconscious.

Kaia was at the hospital, helping the emergency doctors to save as many lives as they can.

Josie's body had been drained and I just know as soon as she wakes up, she will be back at the

hospital trying to help.

Hector, Orpheus, Jude and Beta Riley had locked themselves into the alpha office, Luna Rosa sitting opposite to me on the other couch as she holds her sleeping children in her arms.

I had told her time and time again to rest, that I could watch over Cleo and Ares but she refused, hardly responding to me...her eyes staring blankly at the corner of the room.

Again, we were all sleep deprived, some handling it differently.

She was in some kind of daydream or to say a nightmare would be more fitting as we hadn't slept yet.

There was a hell of a lot of tidying up to do, and it didn't help that we couldn't find Jace.

Jaxon's efforts spent searching for him, where he needs to be in that office...needs to be showing Hector what kind of an alpha he has trained to be. "Anything?" Kaia walks in her exhausted body moving to a spare seat and collapsing down on it.

"Nothing, I just don't get it." Jaxon sighs out in exasperation.

"Alora?" She yawns out as she rubs at her face, the tint of blood still stains the back of her hands.

She had gone from one battle into another.

The exact reason why I wasn't prepared to move, I didn't want to wake Josie, for her to go back to that hospital.

Not just yet.

"With Ezra sorting the border fence." Jaxon grunts out, checking his phone again. He was becoming obsessive.

Those bastards were going to kill her. If it hadn't of been for Abel...but then we wouldn't have been attacked if it wasn't for him.

He had betrayed the pack. A prime example of why you never let outsiders into a pack, unless they are willing to become pack members themselves.

I wish I had listened to my instinct from day one, of why he insisted on having Josie work with him.

He was a traitor sent to infiltrate the pack, from his first day here he had lied to her, to the alpha family.

Even when she was shot with silver bullets....shit, did he play a hand in that also.

"You should be in there." I rumble out to Jaxon.noveldrama

"Not until I know Jace is safe."

“Josie said she followed him near the hospital which is why she went there...when..." I whisper out before the event leading up to the attack takes my mind into a dark place again.

"Shit, he's still in the cells." Jaxon growls out, his hands running through his hair.

"Who's in the cells?" Kaia asks out, her brows furrowing.

"George. I had forgotten with what has happened."

"Why is George in the cells?" Kaia sits forward demanding to know. My eyes flicker to Jaxon, who

was mirroring my gaze.

"Because he attacked Josie...he tried to force himself on her." Luna Rosa snaps out of her trance, filling the silence between us.

"He did what? When was this?"

"Just before the invasion, Abel got to her first..." Jaxon responds as Kaia stands up and moves past him.

"Where are you going?" Jaxon growls out in protest to his mother who was already halfway back to the front door.

"To the cells."

"Let him rot a little longer."

"No, I want to sort this now." Kaia roars out.