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

"There's some paperwork I want you to look at, to read over before you make a decision."

"What kind of paperwork?"

"A contract to read over."

"You've had a contract drafted up already?"

"I'm feeling hopeful." He shrugs out, he was extremely confident that I would take him up on his offer.

We move back to his office, where he places the contract in front of me. A document consisting of page after page, it's going to take me a few days just to read this alone.

"Did you have a legal team draft this up or something?" I laugh out but it falls flat by his blunt and non humourous response.

"Yes. I want to do this right."

I take a seat on the chair opposite his desk...does he expect me to read this all in one sitting.

I wouldn't know the first thing about reading a legal document.

"I want to do right by you Cleo, I want you to know that no matter what happens to me.

This pack will be yours..."

"Mine?" I look up from the document, my eyes readjusting from scanning through the small text.

"Yes, until your child becomes of age."

"I would have complete control of the pack?

"Yes Cleo, in the event of something happening to me, this contract would protect you. No matter what happens you are legally part of this pack, legally binding to be the Luna no matter what. For your child to be the future alpha...no matter what." "No matter what.." I was tempted...

"No matter what. Even if I die, this pack will protect you Cleo. Your child will be the next alpha, nobody can undo that.

I mean what I said... if you chose this, I will look after you. You won't need to ever feel shame of conceiving a half human child, no one will know. Your child will be an alpha as far as anyone knows. Let me take care of you, let me look out for you." I let his words sink in, trying to find a loophole to his offering...trying to find something that would show warning flags.

That surely this was too good to be true.

My child would be the future alpha, which not he, or anybody else can undo.

"What are you thinking?"noveldrama

"I don't think you want to know." I truthfully respond.

"No lies between us Cleo, just the truth. Let's make that vow to one another right now." His eyes hold mine defiantly.

"I'm looking for a sign that you are tricking me, that this is too good to be true...and for a reason."

"There is no trickery, I wouldn't have drafted up a legal binding contract if there was. If anything, this contract protects you more than me."

He was right, he was looking out for

me. More than my parents, more than Jace they had their own lives their own concerns. Jace has a mate bond to try and save, Dad has Mum to keep sane, Ares has the pack coming his way.

When Jace finds out that the baby is his, he'd come for it. He would demand the baby joins the Clear Waters pack...that my baby would be raise by him and his mate.

But if I sign this document, I would

be able to protect my child. I would be able to use the Amber Desert warriors to push him back from our lives. It wouldn't just be a father trying to gain access, it would be a pack fighting another pack.

"No lies?" If I am going to sign this then I need to be truthful to him. He cannot go into this blindly trusting me.

"No lies..."

"Then before I sign this, I should tell you. My baby isn't human, and when I give birth we won't be able to hide that he or she will be an alpha born. Which means, this pack will be a target."

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I can see his brain working, see the realisation hit him through his eyes. At first he seems confused until he catches up...yes my child is the child of an alpha. I just won't say which one, not yet.

His head nods gently as if he were talking to himself.

"This pack has been a target for a long time Cleo, we will protect our alpha child no matter what."

His words give me courage, his words give me the peace of mind that my baby won't be taken from me. That he will help me.

I reach for the pen, flipping the pages to the very end...scribbling my signature on the dotted line.

I was now the Luna of the Amber Desert pack.