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. all I have left

and come

for a while for some crazy mission and it’s why he faked his death, but he was fine all along. But who am I kidding?

I buried

footsteps behind

I don’t turn, even when his cinnamon

who it is. His footsteps have been around here

anywhere.

on a job?” I ask, not taking

and I glance up. He’s in cargo pants, tan boots and a fitted black shirt that hugs his muscular physique and I realise he must have just

just got back a while ago. Shane!” He says as

his arms for him.

in happiness before he runs into

feel happy seeing how happy my Shane is.

you should have gotten some rest first,” I say quietly to

auburn-haired man.

and looks at me with

green eyes that remind me

gemstones.

wanted to,” he

away, crossing my arms. It’s a little

to be so worried about us. I’m not suicidal.” I say as I stand up and motion Shane over. Jax cocks a brow. A strand

falls over his

trust you. You look like you want

say, poking my eyes out at him.

off to train. I’m

use a workout.” He says.

doesn’t. The man is

to though, he’s done his part, and

me… I was meant to once I was mentally coping better, but the

I have begun seeing him as someone who is always there, someone I

right.

I scoop up Shane while he

his hands.

can try.” He replies with a smirk, “I don’t

legs of yours

})

I say as I

making me give him another pointed look –

with a

drop Shane off at Mishiko’s.

closest friends.

is eleven months old now, and she is a happy baby who loves

back, and following up with a kick before I step back so the swinging bag doesn’t hit me, only to

his feet and he grabs me by the waist.

with a smirk

balance.

were you even standing so close?”

here before you came knocking into me,” he says cockily as I pull away, very aware of the tingles from the bond

along my hips.

one another and

reasons, I can’t help but admit that his touch makes me feel things I don’t want to. His smirk fades as he looks

and I look

and I can feel

my stomach and neck.

towel. Well, who

to look pretty.

here to work out? The machines are

I say with a jerk of my head

a white T-shirt and black sweats and I’m not the only one sweating,

my sets. Want to spar?” he asks, cocking a

down, only to brush my fingers through it before I pull it back up into a messy

trailing over my stomach. before he looks