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



- Josie -

"You are mated to that monster?"

"He wasn't always a monster. Greed can get to us all."

"He's killed innocent people in his attempt to gain access to my mother, so you will forgive me if

I don't want to hear of a time when he wasn't a monster. The monster I saw before me was void

of any humanity. He used my friend to infiltrate our pack, then allowed him to be violently

attacked for protecting me."

I have to unclench my jaw, it had tensed painfully at the anger I felt for the alpha that led the

attack on the Dark Moon pack, the monster that had run away as his warriors continued to fall. Kit's lips kiss the sensitive part of my neck, his action working to soothe me, to calm me.

"This friend of yours..."

"Abel..did you know him?"

"I didn't know of an Abel, I must have left before he was born. But it sounds as if he was

manipulated, like so many, to act out the commands of the alpha.

They are a pack, you need to remember that. Would a pack member of your father's rule go against him? The alpha command is a powerful and painful thing to fight against.

Their plan would have been in motion for a long

time and there isn't anything you could have done to stop it."

My head turns backwards towards Kit, sadness washes over me from the fact that Abel had

been corrupted from an early age.

That he meant the pack harm, a pack that had welcomed him and offered him shelter as a doctor.

For some reason he had decided to spare me, but if the pack had fallen then I would have chosen to fall with it.

Which means, and as much as it pains me to admit it, Mum couldn't have let him live. He would have told the white moon things...if he hadn't already.

"How did you break his command?" Kit asks out behind me, his voice hoarse as he, like me, is

concentrating on every word that she says.

"I wasn't born into the White Moon pack therefore I didn't have that necessary, engrained from

birth, need to adhere to it's rules.

I tried, believe me I tried but when I realised the corruption, what they planned to do. I had to break away, I couldn't be a part of that.

Being mated to a member of the pack means all contact with the outside world is forbidden. It wasn't until my mate became alpha that I was granted access to the historical files, that I could read up on the past white wolves.

When I figured out her fate, I tried to warn her...but sadly your grandmother had already died by the time I broke free, and I didn't realise."

"My grandmother?" She knew my grandmother...

"Your grandfather, Beckett, went to great lengths to keep her by his side. But in the end, he had

his own motives...which led to her death."

"My grandfather killed my grandmother?" I gasp, my hand covering my mouth.

Mum never talks of her, she died before Mum could remember her but I know she chooses not to mention my grandfather, it always saddened her when we asked questions growing up, Dad usually stepped in and changed the subject.

But if he was responsible for grandmother's death, and Mum knew, then I can why she has kept this from my brothers and I.

She doesn't answer me, her eyes glowing blue slightly, her wolf trying to come forward. She was

still alive, still fighting against her human side's poisonous tonic.

"Why don't you let her out?"

"Because he will feel it through the bond, he will find me."

The male that led the attack wasn't elderly, he was still young in comparison to her. Which meant my thoughts were right, this tonic was aging her. Slowly killing her, sip by sip.

"You didn't answer my questions before..."

"What question?"noveldrama

"What exactly are you?"

"I think I am a healer wolf. Where Mum as the ability to drain and give energy, I can heal. I can mend broken bones, sense organs and bring back the fatally wounded just before they die."

"Can you bring back from the dead?"

"No...I don't know. I don't think so. Dad was on the brink of death but I managed to bring him back. I've not tried once someone has passed...it feels unnatural to try."

She considers me for a moment, my own words making me think of my own limits.

"I'm surprised he didn't take you, a gift like yours in the wrong hands could be lethal."

"His goal was to get to Mum...he seemed obsessed by her. Seeing her in action during a battle, I

can understand why."

"You're mother's gifts are old, passed on generation by generation...researched by the White

Moon pack. It sounds as if your friend didn't tell him about you, that your abilities were unknown

to him."

"So...he didn't betray me." I murmur to myself.

"Be careful daughter of the white wolf, you would be made to do unimaginable things if they

held those you hold dear. If your ability is as powerful as I can imagine you could be used to heal an army that would be indestructible." Her words make my blood run could, a shudder to creep up my spine.