Denied by Destiny Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 346

Peacefully unaware of everyone breaking down around her. She wouldn’t want this. She wouldn’t want them to live like this. Visiting her everyday, not healing…letting grief suck the life out of them. She was giving, she was healing.

Sobs follow as the doctor turns off the monitor, her heart rate flat lining…the machines aren’t keeping her alive any more. She was gone.

“My thoughts are with you all.” The doctor’s head hangs low, as he takes a step back giving us the opportunity to take her beauty in one last time.

Sobs grow to wails.

Even in the corridor, you can hear cries of the hospital staff before howls echo outside. The pack in mourning. She sacrificed her life to keep them safe, to protect them the only way she could. She has paid the ultimate price for their safety.

We quietly watch her, her body remaining still..no noise…just a deafening silence shared amongst us.

Minutes pass and yet I feel no different, that desire to be with her still present.

I can’t explain this feeling within me, she was gone…she died days ago…the machine in front of me had flatlined. Her heart no longer beat, her lungs no longer breathed…yet I can’t ignore that tug…that pull towards her still exists. And it’s growing more and more by the second.

She can’t be dead, because I can still feel her…I can still feel that bond between us.

I understand it now.

Understand why I was drawn to her from the word go. Why I was possessive, protective…why I couldn’t resist her. Why being with her made me feel alive again.

Why every second of my day was spent desiring her, even when she wasn’t around me…I wanted to know where she was and how long until

I saw her again. She consumed my waking moments…and also my sleeping ones.

She consumed me still.

She was my mate.

Even without a wolf, she was my mate. She is my mate. My fated mate.

“I can’t explain it just trust me. It’s like she’s been in the dark all her life…a flower bud that is finally opening up to the sun. She is now being seen by the moon goddess.” Judging by their stares I was delusional, all but Hector.

A hand grips on to my shoulder but I nudge it off me.

“Just wait, I can smell her scent…just trust me.” I roar out to them, not willing to ever let her go. My hands clinging on to her, encouraging her to wake back up.

“I trust you.” Hector’s voice bellows out in the room. “It’s working…come on Red…it’s working. Touch her…” I place my hand out to Kaia who cautiously takes it, and I thrust her hand upon Josie’s skin.

It can’t be just me, she must be able to feel her own daughter’s body temperature increasing…that it was working, she was coming back to us.

“I don’t believe it. Keep going Knox…it’s working.” Kaia squeals out as she moves in closer.

“Come back to me baby.” I whisper into her ear just as she takes a deep breath in and her eyes flash open.