Denied by Destiny Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 452

“Yep. What about you then? Why have you run away for your 18th?”

“You know Mum…always eyes on. I had no chance of you know, unless I left the pack.”

His brows furrow as he slowly pours me a glass of champagne before handing it out to me. I hesitate in taking it off him, his eyes burning at my last words.

“No, I don’t know?”

I shouldn’t have said what I had just said. I’ve potentially just got the barman downstairs fired.

“It’s doesn’t matter.”

“No, go on tell me…” He finishes pouring his own glass before moving around his kitchen island and pulling the stool out next to me, sitting down on it, but not before clinking his glass with mine.

This was uncomfrotable, I could the heat of my embarrassment spreading up my neck and onto

my face.

I must be bright red as a beetroot.

Intense green eyes continue to gaze upon me, as it takes all my strength not to move my knee that was centre-metres from his.

I could only describe it as a magnetic force that was encouraging me to make my knee touch his, like a puzzle piece that needed to be slotted in to

complete the picture.

“Cleo?” He presses as I close my eyes to prepare for the words that were about to leave my mouth.

“I wanted to sleep with a guy, you know…tick it off my list.”

“Tick what off your list?” He responds choking on the sip of drink he has just taken.

“I need to lose my V card.”

“Your V card? What’s a V card?”

I want the grey tiled floor to swallow me up, the entire hotel to collapse in on itself and take me

with it.

“This is so embarrassing.” I mutter under my breath as I place the champagne flute down and pull my head into my hands, if I was going to admit this out loud, I couldn’t look him in the eyes.

“Virginity Jace. I came here to lose my virginity.”

“Oh.” He swallows down hard, his Adam’s apple vibrating in his throat, as I peer out of my hands that now covered my face.

“I told you it was embarrassing.”

Determined, I press the button of the elevator, knowing as soon as I was inside I would select the ground floor…on the hunt to find the barman.

He was sweet, he was attentive. Why shouldn’t it be him, he was as good as any other male.

“I meant what I said Cleo, if you go find him, I will kill him.” A growl echoes behind me.

“Empty threats Jace, you have no authority here, I will do as I please. I’m not on the Dark Phantom pack lands, I don’t have to play along.”

The elevator door bings open and I lift my foot out to take a step forward only to stop as his hand wraps around my naked tummy, pinning me against him.

Tingles dance across my skin from his touch, my eyes darting down to make sense of the frenetic sensation.

“I said no.”

“I don’t care what you said Jace, I know what I want…which can’t be said about you.”

“Oh I know what I want Cleo, I’ve just been too scared in taking it. But to hell with it, especially

when you so easily land on my lap. How could I not take a bite of the forbidden fruit.” He spins me in his arms as the elevator doors close behind me.

A hand snakes up, gripping me firmly but not painfully around my neck as his eyes shift into the powerful predator again, those eyes blackening as his wolf pushes forward.

A gasp barely escapes me as his lips crash into mine at an insatiable force.