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

"Really?" He rolls his eyes up at me as he lets go of the leg press, giving me back full control. He moves to a bench by my side, sitting down on the edge of it. "What?"

"Did you see the way the males were huddled around you."

They were rather close to me, which thinking on it is something that never happens. Mum has always made it clear as their Luna that I wasn't to be around males, alone.

If I walk into a room alone, the males have to leave...it's something that I have grown up with.

It's like second nature to me now...so for them to have closed in on me just now...

"Their wolves will scent the change in your hormones, they will offer themselves up to mate with the daughter of the alpha. They will want to protect a future potential heir..." "Ares." I tut out his name, what a thing to say.

"Nature Cleo, you can't fight it. You will send their wolves crazy to the point they might mark you without permission." He takes my hand as I stop the leg press, guiding me to sit back up. I didn't want to listen to his words, they were scare mongering tactics. "Are you trying to scare me?"

"It is working?"

"A little."

"Good, I want to scare you. No more working out in here, no more being alone."

"Ares..." I try to tell him he is being silly, that he is talking nonsense but his words have left a chill across my body.

"I mean it.." His eyes turn stern, like Dad's.

"Okay, fine."

....

Ares' words were meant to frighten me...and they have.

Do I really believe a male wolf will mark me without permission just because I am the daughter of the alpha?

No...but perhaps it isn't a theory that I want to test out.

It's ridiculous, I'm older than him...but slowly he was gaining more power every day, gaining my influence amongst the pack.

Nature playing out.

Between Mum and Doctor Sophia trying to mind link me for the rest of the morning, it is early afternoon before I know it...having missed lunch.

I finally return home raiding the kitchen cupboards, my stomach growling with hunger for having dared to skip a meal.

I guess I was eating for two now.

I was hungry for everything, placing

a pizza in the oven whilst eating on a peanut butter sandwich and a pack

of tortilla chips. I couldn't even wait

for the pizza to cook.

I try to convince myself that I didn't really have craving for ice cream, because that would be disgusting to eat at the same time as the pizza.

But as I pull the ice cream out of the

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freezer and place the tub on the kitchen top, attacking it with a spoon and placing it to my lips without hesitation, I realise it was thebest taste in the world.

"Cleo?" Mum's voice calls out to me as the alpha office door opens.

I can hear Dad talking, I didn't realise with had a guest.

"In the kitchen." I call out, my mouth full of ice cream.

"Can you come here?"

"I'm just having some food." I try to hide the anger in my tone, I just wanted to sit down and eat something. For once to not be on the go...I wanted to enjoy this feeling.

"Cleo?" A male's voice calls out to me, his voice completely distinguishable to others. What was he doing here.

I move, placing the spoon down on the kitchen work top, leaving my odd feast at his voice.

"Jaxon?" I push open on the office door, his intense eyes not missing a moment.

"What are you doing here?" My eyes scan the room for any clues of his announced arrival.

"I wanted to check everything was okay?" He stands up from the leather Sherlock style chair, his eyes narrowing as he stares into mine.

"Why wouldn't it be?" I ask back, taken by surprise by his question...and his arrival.

"Apparently you went to the Dark Phantom pack yesterday?" My eyes open wide at Mum's accusation, something I failed to mention. Something I had hoped would go unknown.

"I, erm...yes, only on the way back from seeing Maya. I thought it would be rude to not stop and

say hello whilst being so close." I think of my excuse, once again dragging poor Maya in to them.