Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond
Chapter 0270

As the pack's natural ambience comes to a small whisper, Alpha Hector raises his hand to say a few words...I'm listening but my eyes are scanning around the crowd. She wasn't here. She wasn't standing in front of the pack members like her family are doing, she wasn't standing by the alpha family's side. Why not, where the fuck was she. Was this another example of her reluctance to accept her changing position within this pack, just like not training unless it was with a gun.

Such a show of defiance would not be forgiven by Alpha Hector, even Jaxon would have something to say to her...so why aren't they marching her out here...reminding her of her duties as the daughter and sister of the four alphas?

"Why is the alpha daughter not present?" I whisper to a female next to me, her eyes widening as my voice is closer to a hushed growl.

"She must be at her shooting range..." Her words are jittery, as she takes a step away from me. The male she steps into looking over her shoulder at me as they enter a mind-link, before he also looks away from my glare.

I had heard rumours, rumours of a white wolf but to see Alpha Kaia shift before my very eyes was something else. All eyes of the pack turn to me as I gasp out loud, her white wolf shimmering under the full moon glow. She was spectacular to see in the flesh.

Alpha Hector's black charcoal wolf in contrast makes the white wolf even more visible. I am not a threat to them, even as Jaxon and Jace look to me before shifting, I am not a threat to their parents, to their mother. It's just strange to see the thing of fairy tales right before your very own eyes.

I am not a member of this pack so the call to shift from the alphas doesn't affect me, yet I take part in it as if I were.

As soon as the air around me starts to shimmer, I follow the pack members in shifting into my wolf form. My wolf pushing on that connection between us, wanting full control as I grant him what he wants, what he needs. He had been cooped up for longer than he was used to. Stretching his spine out, I feel him elongate his paws...as he feels the earth beneath us, his snout sniffing the scent of nature.

I haven't got the pack mind-link so I follow the general flow of direction all the wolves are running in. Pushing through branches, pushing through long grass... this was just what I needed, like the bike ride...to clear my thoughts.

Yet my thoughts, even in my wolf form go back to her. Why was she not here...I search ahead of me, even overtaking wolves to get a better view on the alpha family running ahead of us but there were still only four wolves, not five. And having spent a year with Jaxon's and Jace's black wolves, I know they are not hers.

I break off, that feeling of anger rising within me. She should be here, if they aren't going to tell her, then I will. She should be here, a sign of unity to the pack.

I return to the alpha house, shifting back into my skin form... and placing my clothes back on. The shooting range at the meadows..that is what the pack member said...seemed like a good place to start.

Dreading through the long wild flowers of the meadow, I don't see the shooting range set up but I do find a wooden cabin with the lights on.

Why would she think solo training at a time like this was a good idea...a time when as a pack member you get to build upon the bond you share with your pack...under the watchful glow of the full moon. What is her problem...

Irritated with her princess-like attitude, I march over to the cabin my wolf for once trying to calm me down, trying to stop that fury rising within me.