Denied by Destiny Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 229

Kaia POV

My heat was satisfied enough for the rest of the journey back to the Nightshade Reformed pack, but I wasn’t done…I was still craving more. Still needed more, but I knew what was paramount.

Firstly, I needed to get to the cliff tops, I needed to clear my head.

As we enter the pack grounds I knew that I needed to finally take control of my pack.

Be the Alpha my pack members deserve, the alpha that will guide them and protect them…even if that means from the council.

I needed all traces of the werewolf council off my lands.

It was also time for the Amber Desert warriors to go home, I was grateful for their support and held no bad feelings against the warriors, they had stepped up when their alpha hadn’t.

They had provided protection to my people and helped Alora when needed.

If their Alpha was anyone but Than, I would offer them a transfer…give them an opportunity to try another pack, a pack that would appreciate their hard work and dedication but I’ve had enough of the connection with the Amber Desert pack. We had no need to liaise with one another going forward.

The quicker they left, the better.

I wonder whether Hector would offer them a place with him, he was their true Alpha after all…but it wasn’t my place to say, and I think Hector wants a clean break just as much as me.

Staring out at the waters below me, having now seen the Clear Waters pack…I can see why this place feels like a second home to me.

Even though I don’t remember my childhood home, just the landscape here at the Nightshade Reformed pack makes me feel at ease…makes me feel comfortable within myself.

Even connected to the mother I never knew, in a way.

Small bearable pains were starting to shoot inside my lower abdomen again, a clear signal that I needed to be back with Hector, that my heat hadn’t finished yet. Being marked by an alpha is meant to cause the strongest heat reaction of all.

I had waited until I could no longer deny the mate bond between Hector and I, to the point that denying it caused me severe physical pain.

In the moment he did nothing but show me love and acceptance, he didn’t turn me away, he didn’t use it for his own gain.

He has time and time again shown me the kind of mate he is, the kind of mate he will be.