Denied by Destiny Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 430

~ 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.