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

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Chapter 0128

Kala POV

I've been at the medical centre all morning and it was now coming up to lunch time, not that I'll stop for lunch.

We had too much to do.

| had been checking on each patient to redress wounds and just be a hand for them to hold, | didn't want anyone

to feel alone.

Alora arrives wanting to relieveand letrest but there is still just too much to do.

| give her a walk through, show her the wards that had the less severe patients and where to go for more

dressings.

She looks completely overwhelmed and | have a moment in judgement when | don't think she is up for this, but

then she turns toand assuresthat she's got this, that she will be fine and would mind-linkif she

needs help.

I have to let her try, it would be good for her to be out of her comfort zone...to not be so sheltered. | tell myself

as | leave the ward.

| enter a corrective surgery as soon as | bump into the surgeon in the corridor, he calls out toto scrub in

which bringsa flicker of hope in such dire surroundings, he must of thought | was doing a good job. By the

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t| finish the surgery and find Alora again, she is talking to a female patient as she redresses her head wound,

| decide to leave her, | wasn't her keeper and she could decide for herself when she needed to call it a day, when

she needed to rest. Although | do ask one of the doctors to keep an eye her and encourage her to leave not too

long after me.

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into the fridge and grab the cold bottle of wine that has been calling out toall day.

I needed this. | deserved this.

| enter the sitting room, placing my feet up and almost for a second, a tiny second, forgetting we had visitors

and thinking | would be left alone. How wrong was I.

His clearing of his throat comes after the scent of dark chocolate and burnt oranges swirls around the room. My

eyes open to find him leaning against the door frame, his grey ash eyes holding a level of concern in them.

"I don't think that's a meal..."

"I don't know, it seems to be hitting the spot." | take a sip letting the flavour rest on my taste buds, sinking into

the sofa.

"You're avoiding me..." He states taking a step into the sitting room, walking towards the non-lit fireplace,

seemingly inspecting the small trinklets that adorn the mantelpiece.

"I'm not..."

"No lies now Kala!" He smirks atthrough the mirror above the mantel piece, his handsomeness

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catching my breath. | had tried my best not to look at him for too long since he showed up, | have been avoiding

him. But what did he really expect.

A sigh escapes me, my peaceful moment no more as | stand up to join him by the fireplace. | place the wine

glass on the mantelpiece before looking up in his eyes. | forgot how tall he was, my neck pulls slightly as | have

to look up the little bit higher. "What are you doing here Hector?" | sigh out.

"I was at the Shadow Rock pack when they launched the attack on these lands..."

"No, | mean...what are you doing here Hector?" | repeat, trying to get to the real reason.

He tilts his head, his eyes looking down into mine.

"I needed to know..."

"You needed to know....what?"

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"That you are okay, that you were safe..."

"By coming all this way? If you knew where | was you could have sent a letter, or an email....my email address

hasn't changed." | scoff, | hear a door open somewhere and | turn from him trying to walk away from his cryptic

words.

| feel tingles erupt on my skin as | look down at the cause, his hand now gripping at my elbow pullingback

around to face him.

"Rosa told me...

"Rosa told you what?" I laugh out at his cryptic ways, before his eyes givea knowing look...

That knowing look...

Suddenly, | feel my walls break...those strong walls that | had built brick by brick, shieldingfrom the events

of the past, to no longer tarnish my future....Rosa told him. "Get out!" | growl at him.

"Kaia."

"I said get out!" | push at him, | didn't want him to know, it's something | never wanted him to know. Ebony

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| have another chapter coming, it's just in editing.

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