Denied by Destiny Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 452

“Yep. What about you then? Why have you run away for your 18th?”

“You know Mum…always eyes on. I had no chance of you know, unless I left the pack.”

His brows furrow as he slowly pours me a glass of champagne before handing it out to me. I hesitate in taking it off him, his eyes burning at my last words.

“No, I don’t know?”

I shouldn’t have said what I had just said. I’ve potentially just got the barman downstairs fired.

“It’s doesn’t matter.”

“No, go on tell me…” He finishes pouring his own glass before moving around his kitchen island and pulling the stool out next to me, sitting down on it, but not before clinking his glass with mine.

This was uncomfrotable, I could the heat of my embarrassment spreading up my neck and onto

my face.

I must be bright red as a beetroot.

Intense green eyes continue to gaze upon me, as it takes all my strength not to move my knee that was centre-metres from his.

I could only describe it as a magnetic force that was encouraging me to make my knee touch his, like a puzzle piece that needed to be slotted in to

complete the picture.

“Cleo?” He presses as I close my eyes to prepare for the words that were about to leave my mouth.

“I wanted to sleep with a guy, you know…tick it off my list.”

“Tick what off your list?” He responds choking on the sip of drink he has just taken.

“I need to lose my V card.”

“Your V card? What’s a V card?”

I want the grey tiled floor to swallow me up, the entire hotel to collapse in on itself and take me

with it.

“This is so embarrassing.” I mutter under my breath as I place the champagne flute down and pull my head into my hands, if I was going to admit this out loud, I couldn’t look him in the eyes.

“Virginity Jace. I came here to lose my virginity.”

“Oh.” He swallows down hard, his Adam’s apple vibrating in his throat, as I peer out of my hands that now covered my face.

“I told you it was embarrassing.”