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

- Jace -

Jaxon and I had driven throughout the night, heading up towards the mountainous region that in truth was a well known rogue area.

A place that if you were in a pack, you didn't tend to visit, and for good reason.

Rogue life was deadly, vicious and cruel. One day you might be a ruler, the next... a knife was in your back before you had even had breakfast.

As soon as Jaxon pulls the car up where the road ends, I open the passenger door to be hit with the smell of rotting flesh.

Rogues have a pungent sulphuric-type smell which you can scent from a mile away.

Here that scent is being covered by rotting flesh, my own gag reflexes are in full motion as the wind suddenly changes cause...revealing the scent of rogues.

Which burns at my eyes.

The high winds at this altitude were unforgiving on marking the hilly peaks as belonging to the rogues.

This was their land, there was no mistake about that.

I just hope the rotting flesh was from the decaying dead that hadn't been buried properly...not the remains of them eating their own....

"You good?" Jaxon coughs out, his hand moving to his nose as he tries to acclimatise to the damn awful mixing smells around us.

"Yep, you?" I make a point of breathing through my mouth and not my nose.

"Fucking annoyed we didn't bring masks." He grunts out, moving to the boot of the car where he pulls out a black satchel each.noveldrama

Unlike Josie, we didn't like to rely on weapons...using the claws and teeth of our wolves, what the moon goddess intended.

However, we were entering into uncharted territory where there are no rules... anything goes. Therefore, having weapons and protection was now a necessity.

"Let's just get this done, as soon as possible." I grunt out, thinking of my sweet smelling mate waiting for my return.

"The dream duo, back together again aye?" Jaxon smirks as he pulls out a grey car blanket, closes the car boot and locks the car.

I help him place then blanket over the car, it certainly won't go unnoticed here but

in the mountains, it would look like a large rock...at least that was the plan.

Uncovered the car would be stripped of parts within minutes.

Rogues have to survive somehow.

"You ready?"

"Can't believe I've left my mate for this shit."

"Then let's get you back to her as soon as possible. Come on." Jaxon whips his head as he pulls his phone out for coordinates of the last

know location of the Amber

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Knights and Dark Phantom warriors.

A few miles hike where no road went...from now on we were on high alert and couldn't take too long...alpha auras like ours won't go unnoticed in these parts.

We find the group of warriors from both packs after a few hours. At first the area they had pinned as their location was empty, until slowly they came out of their hiding places.

Each and every one of them looked worn, grey, if not green. I understand why... they had been sleeping rough in these surroundings with these smells for the last few days.

"Alphas!" Ozborne tilts his neck to the side as he walks towards Jaxon and me. His eyes burning into the landscape around us. He doesn't trust one sound, one gust of wind.

"Ozborne, what updates?" I request of him as Jaxon moves to his own warriors, standing beside them as they give their own updates.

"We think she may be at the top of that peak, it offers the best protection from all surroundings. It's where the most of the rogues reside, however, there was a mass movement yesterday.

That could be due to internal be du

fighting...especially if she has taken control, which we imagine she has He deadpans at the end, perhaps there was no love lost between the previous luna and the knights as I had thought.

"Jaxon." I call my brother over to us for us to plan the next stage and carry it out with exact precision. This place wasn't forgiving, one fuck up and you'd pay for it with you

life.

I drop my bag to the ground, arming myself with protection gear and ensuring

bullets were loaded into the AK-47.