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

Kaia POV "Glace is your family name, Varon your mate's, but obviously you two aren't married yet, and Sable.... Sable is your married name...although I can't see a change of nbeing applied for...did you never change it?" He busies himself by flicking through my paperwork before he looks back up at me.

"Change it?" "From when you married Alpha Than Sable of the Amber Desert pack?" He looks atas if I have no idea what is going on.

Because I don't and deep down I know he knows that. I can see the glint in his eye, he was enjoying my current confusion. To him knowledge is power, and he is powerful right now. Married...

I feel as if the entire room's flooring has collapsed beneath me.

That the carpeted floor has melted away leaving a black hole that I am currently dropping through, my stomach can feel the drop even though I am not even moving.

"I was married, married to Than Sable?" My eyes dart to Hector, whose eyes aren't denying the claim, in fact, he seems to be pained by the news. My eyes travel along those I considered my friends...Jude, Edmund...Ezra...finally landing on Alora.

My own sister's, my twin, my beta...her eyes are down unable to lookin the eye. They all knew, they all kept this from me. Even Alora, he was her mate...I was married to her mate...

"Yes, you were until recently. You applied for a divorce and it has been granted. I can see both sides have signed. Do you not remember signing this, the date seems to be after your...incident." The way he says incident makes my eyes snap back to him.

"I'm going to..." Hector seethes and for the first tsince entering this room I can actually see Jude trying to calm him down.

He hasn't once gotten involved with Hector's previous outbursts but this was different.

"You're going to what, Alpha Hector?" The council man smirks, his voice loud as it bounces off the walls.

Is that why he and Alora aren't together, because of me? I needed answers, answers only Hector and Alora can give me. I need to get out of here. I need to find out what exactly has happened, how I was married to Alora's mate.

My world was collapsing again, yet four council male's seem to be enjoying my world imploding. In fact, they all, except one, seem rather smug.

"My nis Kaia Glace, for the record." I confirm, my head held high. He might want to play games withand my mate, a mate that I am furious at right now.

Furious at him, furious at my sister but I will not let that fury rule me, I will not let them see how much it has hurt me.

I will not fall into council's trap and judging by how quickly their smirks drop off their faces, they are starting to understand my strength.

"Then you are released from questioning...until we conclude our investigation." He grunts not hiding his disappointment.

"Like I said before, my pack is not part of your alliance and what happens within pack lands is my business..." "Hmm...we shall see." I didn't want to ask what he meant by that, I wanted to get out of this room, get my wolf back and find out what the hell my mate hasn't been telling me.

Knowing the car journey from the city to the Dark Phantom pack was short, I waited until we were in the secure walls of the Alpha hbefore demanding Hector tellwhat exactly I seem to have forgotten.

He knew I was ready for an argument because I was in our office alone, whilst he was talking to Jude outside in the courtyard.

With my wolf now slowly coming back to me, if I strain hard enough, I can hear snippets of their conversation. "Just remain calm." My wolf tries to calm me, her desire to accept the bond still there.

"Calm? All this tI have actually been married to somebody else and he failed to tell me." "I'm sure he didn't tell us for a reason, just hear him out." Typical, my wolf wasn't even in the courtroom when I heard this bombshell, yet she is already defending him. The mate bond always working its magic, always trying to keep that pull going.

His footsteps snapout of my thoughts as I hear him entering into the hallway, he stops to ask Aubrey to make us sdrinks...delaying the inevitable if you ask me.

"Hector..." I growl as soon as he walks through the door.

"Before you say anything... letexplain." He holds his hands up in surrender.

"Please, go ahead. Explain tohow you failed to tellsomething so important that it not only affectsbut also my sister." My anger, the betrayal I felt knew no bounds right now.

Alora had left to go back to the Nightshade Reformed pack with Ezra, I was angry at her too. Angry that she would keep something like this from me. Something that has fundamentally impacted her life. "You had married Than, but he tricked you into the marriage, he married you to save Alora." He sighs out as he enters deeper into the office.

"To save Alora..." "He wanted to use you for organ donations." "What?" Who would do such a monstrous thing.

"After finding out, you rejected the pack, you ran...that's when I found you and brought you back here, brought you back...." "I was married to your brother?" "Yes." "But why didn't you claim me, if we are mates Hector, why didn't you claimbefore my amnesia." I was missing something, something didn't add up. "It's complicated." "Then uncomplicate it for me?" I launch myself off the desk chair and move towards the window. I needed to take a deep breath in to keep my spiralling anger at bay.

"I didn't recognise our bond at first, until it was too late." He sighs out, eating the space up between us. His long strides dominating the distance. "Too late?" "Until I found you at the Nightshade Reformed pack, until I realised how blind I had been. Your father sensed it, he knew that we were true mates, he even threatened Than when he cfor Alora." His hands snake around my waist, before one moves up and holdsback the front of my neck. Sparks dance across my skin, sparks that right now I was irritated at.

It was hard to know what was real and what I might have dreamt.

I had dreams but most of them didn't make sense and I questioned whether they were from my past life.

It's hard to have someone else confirm your past when your own memory fails you.

"She didn't want him?" I quietly ask.

"Not after she found out...but you also banished him from the Nightshade Reformed pack." "I was married?" I grimace at the idea of being married to Than. He's just...he's not someone I thought I would choose for myself.

"You thought his love for you was real, you believed him.

Believewhen I tell you how sick it makesfeel to know that he once called you his. How you were his luna before being mine." He turnsin his arms, his jaw tense as he talks about things I have no memory of

I'm still angry at Hector for not sharing this with me, for letting m in too!! another tellin front of an audience But I can see the discomfort on his face, in his demeanour. He really did struggle with the idea ofbeing married to another.

I could run from him, run and believe others...like I did with Alpha Marc but Hector has made mistakes, as have I. Perhaps it was tthat we stopped running, perhaps it was tI stopped denying our mate bond. "Why would the council mention it?" I shake my head in disbelief. What business is it of theirs anyhow. "To drive a wedge between us, to separate you from me. I have reason to believe that Clay is conspiring with Marc." "The lead councillor. Why else would he have mentioned the death of your father, how else would he have known what Samson told you. About the night he died." "Clay?" "But you were there, you said so yourself. That you were in the room." I frown.

My wolf growls in my head, trying to preventfrom asking this question. He was tellingthe truth on Than, then I needed the full truth.

"Yes." Finally.

But I think my wolf and I wouldn't like the answer, yet I already know it don't I...

"Then Hector, why did you refuse the autopsy?" His eyes move away, his head turns to try and move out of our hold. I stop him, by placing a hand across his face...letting my touch linger.

"Please Hector...tell me.." He nods, understanding that I need to know.

"Because the doctor and I found an empty syringe...something that, if the entire contents was injected, would have caused a severe reaction." I have to repeat what he has just said in my mind. "It would have killed?" I ask for clarity. "Yes."