Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond

Chapter 0225 Hector POV "I'll take it..." Kaia tries to snatch the cup from my hand but I place it high, out of her reach.

"You've only just got poison out of your system. You think I can stand by and let you drink this." "Oh because it's easy for me." She retorts back at me.

"She can sense my wolf is ready to bring this hut down into splinters. Just keep her talking." I whisper into her ear, with her wolf this female wont hear my words only meant for Kaia. "Hector.." Fear forpushes through the mate bond... the incomplete mate bond.

"Trustmy love, do you trust me?" "Yes. Of course I do." She sighs out, rolling her eyes at me.

I place the cup to my mouth, my lips already burning from the liquid I was about to consume...willingly.

Fuck me.

I swallow it on one go.

There's no point stringing this out. The liquid burns at my mouth, at the back of my throat, down through into my stomach.

I can feel its journey as it burns like I've swallowed the fire itself.

It takes my breath away and my hands involuntarily go to my throat, my wolf trying to claw at the pain.

It works immediately, my wolf starts to recede into the darkest depths of my mind... his unsatisfactory growl becoming quieter and quieter the more he is pushed away. Until silence. "Hector?" Kaia's hand touches my arm as I try to shake the feeling of dread out of my system.

"I'm fine." "Are you sure?" I open my eyes to find my vision is slightly blurry. As if a shadow has covered my eyes.

The thing that bothersthe most is I have temporarily lost my tie to Kaia, as if she doesn't bear my mark upon her neck. Whatever was in the water was more than wolfsbane.

It had the ability to fully block a mate bond. If she's been taking this for years, which I assshe has, no wonder she looks like something that has just walked out of a nightmare. "I've proved myself, proved we can be trusted. Now keep your end of the bargain." I seethe out as I spit out ssaliva coated in blood.

"You are good on your word. So I will be on mine. Ask away." She places her hands out in a welcoming gesture. "How old are you?" I ask out first, keen to know if my theory is correct.

"I'm 38." I cough out at her answer, I knew she was younger than her external image claimed her to be. But 38? She looked at least 80.

"It's the concoction. It's the prize to pay for invisibility." She slowly nods as if understanding my reaction. "Why take it?" Kaia asks as she moves to stand in front of me. She was creating a block between this female and me, it was unnecessary.

With or without my wolf I would move heaven and earth to get Kaia out of here un-harmed.

"I would have been dead long ago. Toevery day is an extra blessing on this world before I return to the Moon Goddess." "You said you rejected your mate. The alpha?" Kaia continues to fire questions.

"The White Moon pack are living descendants from the original pack, the Moon Goddess's first pack created here on earth." "The children of the moon." Kaia mutters almost to herself.

"Yes. My mate is now the alpha of the pack. I rejected him but he refused to accept my rejection. If my wolf were forward he would feel the bond, he would be able to find me." "Why don't you want him to find you?" She shakes her head, rumbling on to herself about something that I can't make out.

"Answer her!" I demand. We had kept up our end of the deal, she couldn't now go silent on us.

"I have information that could prove very damaging to the pack, to his leadership. If the truth was known..." ""What truth?" I press.

"That it no longer exists to serve the Moon Goddess, it hasn't for centuries." "It has been corrupted?" I ask out.

"Yes, it no longer serves to bring peace and harmony amongst the shifter and non shifter souls. We bectainted, tainted by power and revenge. That's when your first ancestor was created Kaia, to bring balance." "Samson, an ex beta..." Kaia asks as she, like me, tries to make sense of this.

"I know who he was." The female nods, she was well informed of things outside these woods she now inhabits.

"He said that he would returnto them, that I belonged to them." "That was a lie!" I knew it.

My wolf isn't channelling but I have enough anger for the size of a pack.

"Samson would have been told a lie, they all are. We all were. It is ingrained into them from birth or when they join the pack. They can't help it." "Then what would they have done with me?"

"They would have sacrificed you to the moon goddess Kaia, they believe it will pay for their past sins. Return the White Wolf to the Moon Goddess and their lands will be revealed to them." "Lands?" "From what I understand Alpha Beckett found the lands that housed the first pack?" "He did?" Kaia turns to me, shock written all over her face. I am less shocked.

The Nightshade Reformed pack lands, no wonder Beckett was so determined to build a pack there, he had found the lands of Kaia's ancestors.

"How did the White Wolf leave the pack?" I was trying to make sense of what she was telling us. Trying to get as much information as possible.

"Her mate got her out. He wasn't of the spack...much like your Father Kaia. He was from a different pack and joined the Clear Waters pack on finding his mate. Your ancestors created the Clear Waters pack to house her. To defend her.

After many battles, many deaths, the Clear Waters pack was approved to live in harmony as long as the White Wolf kept herself to herself. As long as she was no threat to the White Moon pack." "Threat, what kind of threat am I?" "Kaia, the white wolf was created to keep the originals in check. You were created to be the wall between werewolves and humans. You were created to protect the humans. Even from your own."