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



"Yes." She mumbles back at me, slowly moving back to her chair. Her walking stick clanging against the wooden floorboards. "Why?"

"Being in hiding comes with a price."

"In hiding, who from?"

"Your Mother didn't tell you?" A loud sigh follows as it seems to pain her to sit down.

"No, she said that you would answer my questions, that it would help me to hear you out. Help me understand why he had to die."

"Who?"

"Abel..."

"I will answer your questions but first, he needs to drink this."

"No, I am unwilling for him to drink that..."

"Then, your journey here has been wasted." Her face turns from me, her concentration moving back to her bay window. Completely putting an end to our conversation and visit.

"Very well...we are sorry to have disturbed you." I take hold of Kit's hand and start to pull him out towards the front door.

I wouldn't let Kit be injured, not with what was in these jars...we would have to get our answers another way.

But something deep inside of me is telling me she had questions of her own. That if I called her bluff, she would change her mind.

"Wait....if you can assure me..." Her head whips back around, her eyes locking with mine.

"I can, and I will." I turn to her, my eyes glowing as I feel my wolf coming forward, hiding that satisfied smile of knowing this female wouldn't have easily let us leave.

I try to push my wolf back, this isn't what we needed right now, she would scare her off.noveldrama

But the old woman's eyes inquisitively stare into mine, as I'm assuming, she watches my orange ring around my pupils burn out and replace my grey ash eye colour.

"The white wolf has a blue ring around her eyes." Seconds pass before she fills the silence between us.

"Like I said, I am not the white wolf."

"Come, take a seat."

She lets me ask her questions, things about the history of the white wolf. Her origins.

She informs me that the white wolf was created by the moon goddess to keep the werewolf community in check, to stop evil spreading into the human world.

That a balance has to remain at all times.

My first question to her after she paused, was how she knew so much and why she was in hiding.

I had to bite down on my own lips to prevent the gasp that wanted to escape me when she declared that she was a member of the white moon pack, that she had become rogue after going against their corruption.

"Corruption, what kind of corruption?" Kit presses, his fingers gripping tightly on to me as I sit on his lap.

He refused to let me sit on my own chair, and I didn't put up much of a fight.

I wanted him close to me as well. The past 24 hours had been challenging to say the least, his skin pressing against mine was keeping me calm, those tingles keeping me focused.

“The alpha of the white moon pack believes, as do many before him, that the pack has been cursed. Driven into almost extinction because the moon goddess is punishing them.

If they can capture the white wolf they would surrender her back to the moon goddess to pay for past crimes."

"Surrender?"

"Sacrifice..."

"No." It makes sense why the alpha of the white moon pack was so persistent in getting to Mum, why he was reluctant for Abel to keep me.

Just the thought of something happening to Mum makes my blood run cold.

"Is that why you left?"

"Yes, and why I take the tonic. I rejected the alpha and the pack, but he didn't reject me...if I forget to take this tonic even for a day...it will lead him to me."

"Rejected the alpha?"

"I was the pack's Luna."