Denied by Destiny Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 455

~ Cleo ~

I can hear him talking to someone, and I know it isn’t to me because I am semi-unconscious.

My body is willing me to sleep yet my mind knows I should not stay…that, I should get up and go back to my own hotel room.

To go find Maya.

Every part of my body is exhausted, even my lips that somehow feel bruised. I challenge the gods to find a better way to lose your virginity than what I have just experienced.

It was perfect. My body was humming, my wolf purring.

I could hear her…I’m sure he can as well but I am too exhaustd to do anything about it. I can’t hush her, and I don’t really want to.

He has awakened an unknown desire within me, and if I wasn’t so exhausted I would go again, and again.

I feel the bed dip where Jace climbs back on, the distant one-sided communication that I can hear means he must be on a phone call.

If I had the energy I would push my wolf to hear for the voice on the other line, but it felt too much effort at this moment in time.

I make a deep guttural sound as I try to force myself to wake up, to not let my self sleep the rest of the night here.

But when he finishes his phone call and hushes in my ear to sleep…I can’t help but lean into his touch again.

I feel his hand stroke the side of my face, my naked body twisting itself to seek him out…that magnetic pull making my body entwine itself around him.

I hear him chuckle before his hand moves to my ass, where he tabs it gently…before heavy breathing follows and I also give in to that call to sleep.

I wake up cold, the warmth of his body being next to me a distant memory as I find myself alone in his bed.

“Jace?” I call out, as I stir from my sleep…my eyes taking in the early morning sun through the tinted windows of the penthouse’s bedroom.

With the absence of blinds, the windows must be cleverly designed to see out but not see in, providing an almost surrounding coastal view. It was stunning.