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 him.

and

and it’s why

happens. I buried him.

footsteps behind

don’t turn, even when his cinnamon

it is. His footsteps have been around here so

anywhere.

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

pants, tan boots and a fitted black shirt that hugs his muscular physique and I

He says as he walks over to my little one, crouching down

his arms for him.

happiness before he runs into

feel happy seeing how happy my Shane

didn’t need to rush over, you should have gotten

auburn-haired man.

and looks at me with his sharp

that remind me

gemstones.

to,” he says.

It’s a little chilly. I

I’m not suicidal.” I say as I

falls over his forehead as he

doesn’t mean I trust you. You look like you want

say, poking my eyes out at

actually off to train. I’m

join you. I could use a workout.” He

The man is pure muscle.

need to though,

rejects me… I was meant to once I was mentally

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

right.

instead, as I scoop up Shane while he

in his hands.

replies with a smirk, “I

legs of yours

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say as I walk towards

my books,” he counters, making me give him another

returns with

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

closest friends.

now, and she is a

before I step back

Jax!” I gasp as I almost trip over his feet and he grabs me by the waist.

a smirk as

balance.

even standing so close?” I frown.

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

along my hips.

marked one another and as much

me feel things I don’t want to. His smirk fades

and I look away. 1

like a pig, and I can

stomach and neck. I look around

find a towel. Well, who cares? I’m

to look pretty.

here to work

a jerk of my head towards the

and I’m not the only one sweating, although he’s smart enough

Want to spar?”

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

lower, trailing over my