Alpha Leo and the Heart of Fire

Precious Bond Ch 1. Mates

Takes place shortly after the epilogues of Alpha Leo and the Heart of Fire & The Lycan Princess and the Temptation of Sin.

I would recommend reading The Lycan Princess and the Temptation of Sin before this novella. However, if you don’t, it won’t ruin the story.

PRECIOUS BOND

The Untold Tales of the Alpha and Legacies

Series

KAREENA.

Mates.

For our kind, your mate is a part of you, not just a partner, but your life source. The very air you

need to breathe, and the very touch and caress

you need to keep going. Their caress, their

voice, their promises; they become your life.

But what happens when they are suddenly

ripped from you with no warning? 2

What happens when they tell you they’ll be there for that movie and dinner date tonight,

only for their lifeless, mutilated body to be brought to you? 1

What happens when your entire world is ripped apart, and you’re left wondering why me?

Mates are a beautiful thing, yet equally deadly as they are beautiful.

My life was perfect from the moment he stepped into it. Every day was filled with happiness and

love until it was not.

In seconds, it became a living nightmare when he left me all alone… or so I thought

Because even as he parted, he left me something

to hold on to, as if knowing that without him I’ll die. As if he knew I needed something that would make me try to live.

Something strong enough for me to try to surface the deep dark waters that were drowning me. They were meant to be my emotions, but they began to suffocate me until I

began fighting for his parting gift…

But it wasn’t easy… it’s never easy…

Less than two years ago I lost my mate, my all…

My husband, Shane Dunn. 3

A sharp wind blows through my brown hair, and

I brush my fingers through it as I look at my son, Shane, named after his father. He’s fifteen months now and the spitting image of his

father.

He has blond hair and grey eyes. His eyes might be a mix of both of ours as my own are a greyish blue, but otherwise, he is a mini version of his

father.

He’s currently kicking a ball around in the garden of our home, one which Shane and I

lived in after we got married. There have been

moments it’s all felt overwhelming – that I want to leave it… but then, I can’t bring myself

1. have left of

the door and come back. With some wild reason that

stay on the down low for a while for some crazy mission and it’s why he faked his death, but he was fine all along. But

I

behind me makes me

turn, even when his

have been around here so often that I can recognise them

anywhere.

weren’t you on a job?” I ask, not taking my eyes off my little one.

boots and a fitted black shirt that hugs his muscular physique and I realise he must have just gotten

a while ago. Shane!” He says as he

his arms

before he runs into his arms, laughing.

can’t help but feel happy seeing how happy my

you should have gotten some rest first,” I

auburn-haired man.

and looks at me

eyes that remind me of

gemstones.

wanted to,” he says.

a little chilly. I should

so worried about us. I’m not suicidal.” I say as I

over his forehead as he

know, doesn’t mean I trust you. You look like you want to kill something.”

say, poking my eyes out

to train. I’m going

I could use a workout.” He says. I

he really doesn’t. The man is pure

so hard… he doesn’t need to though,

waiting… waiting for that moment he rejects me… I was meant to once I was mentally coping better, but the more I see him, the

break the bond between Shane and me and I know I have begun

right.

your ass kicked?” I say instead, as I scoop up Shane while he holds on tightly to the

his hands.

can try.” He replies with a smirk, “I

legs

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I’m average,” I say as I walk towards the back door and

he counters, making me give him another pointed

returns with

me to the private training hall after I drop Shane off at Mishiko’s. Mishiko is the wife and mate of one

closest friends.

is eleven months old now, and she is a

kick before I step back so the swinging bag doesn’t hit me, only to slam

his feet and he grabs me

with a smirk as

balance.

even standing so close?”

cockily as I pull

along my hips.

have marked one another and as much

that his touch makes me feel things I don’t want to. His smirk fades as he looks me

look

and I can

stomach and neck. I look around

find a towel. Well, who cares? I’m not

to look pretty.

you here to work out? The machines

a jerk of my head towards the weights.

only one sweating, although he’s smart enough to keep

Want to spar?”

letting my hair down, only to brush my fingers through it before I pull it back up

lower, trailing over my stomach.