Denied by Destiny Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 230

Kaia POV

“Alpha…” Numerous pack members scream through the mind-link and I have to push them back out to stop them hitting me all at once.

The fear of the pack members washing over me through the pack link.

“To your stations.” I order back through the mind-link, as I continue to run towards the alpha house. I pass pack members who were looking to me for leadership. Their gazes watching me with uncertainty of their fate, if they go to the borders…will they come back alive.

I needed more, needed more warriors. We were still rebuilding, we needed more time.

“You, you all stay and fight…” I let my alpha aura wash over the Amber Desert warriors congregated in the courtyard. They were getting ready to leave, following my initial orders.

Those orders have now changed.

“You dismissed us Alpha.”

“Your Luna will be fighting, are you going to leave her to stand alone?” I roar at the Amber Desert warriors as I continue to approach them.

They were already in the cars, the engines running…minutes later and they would have been gone.

“Alpha…we…”

“I need you to fight, please. I’m asking, not as your Alpha but as the sister of your Luna…the leader of the pack you have been protecting. I need as many fighters as possible.”

I swiftly change my tone, they didn’t need to follow my orders. I wasn’t their alpha.

But they had made a life here, broken bread with my people at the dinner table…they can’t walk away. Not now.

They don’t need to fight for me, but they need to fight for Alora. To keep her safe.

They all look to each other, before nodding back at me and following me into the alpha house.

“Alora?” I call out as I open the front door, only to crash into the solid chest of Hector.

“Thank the goddess, where were you..”

“At the cliff tops..” I respond, ignoring Hector’s growl of disapproval. I had told him I needed a lone walk, but I automatically found myself at the cliff tops before I knew it.

Like I had been called there.

“What information do we have?” I look past his shoulder to Alora who is in a mind-link as she walks towards me, Ezra’s hand on her elbow as he tries to pull her back for some reason.