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 of him.

open the door and come back. With some wild reason that he had

low for a while for some crazy mission and it’s why he faked his death, but he

never happens. I buried him.

creak of footsteps behind

I don’t turn, even when

who it is. His footsteps have been around here so often

anywhere.

a job?” I ask, not taking my eyes off my little one.

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

Shane!” He says as he walks over to my

spreading his arms

he runs

help but feel happy seeing how happy my

need to rush over, you should have gotten

auburn-haired man.

and looks at me with his sharp

that remind me of

gemstones.

wanted to,” he says.

a little chilly. I

I stand

hair falls over his forehead

doesn’t mean I trust you. You look like

I say, poking my eyes out at him.

to train. I’m going to leave Shane with Mishiko.”

you. I could use a workout.” He says. I stop in

he really doesn’t. The man

trying so hard… he doesn’t need to though, he’s

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

to break the bond between Shane and me and I know I have begun seeing him as

right.

kicked?” I say instead, as I scoop up

his

replies with a smirk,

legs of

})

please, I am not short, I’m average,” I say as I walk towards the back

in my books,” he counters, making me give him another pointed look – one

returns with a

training hall after I drop Shane off at Mishiko’s. Mishiko is

closest friends.

and she is a happy baby who

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

I gasp as I almost trip over his feet and he grabs me by the

a smirk as

balance.

standing so close?”

knocking into me,” he says cockily as I pull away, very aware

along my hips.

one another and as much

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

look away. 1

a pig, and I

stomach and neck. I

who cares?

to look pretty.

to work

say with a jerk of my head towards the

T-shirt and black sweats and I’m not the only one sweating, although he’s smart enough to

Want to spar?” he

out my hair tie and letting my hair down, only to brush my fingers through it

gaze dips lower, trailing over my stomach. before he