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

want to leave it… but then,

I have left of

I feel as if he’ll open the door and come back. With some wild reason that

it’s why he faked his death, but he was fine all along.

never happens.

creak of footsteps behind me makes

I don’t turn, even when his cinnamon

it is. His footsteps have been around here so often that I can

anywhere.

back… weren’t you on a job?” I ask, not taking my

me, and I glance up. He’s in cargo pants, tan boots and a fitted black shirt that hugs his muscular physique and

ago. Shane!” He says as he walks over to my little

his arms for

happiness before he runs into

help but feel happy

should have gotten some rest first,” I

auburn-haired man.

and looks at me with his

that remind me

gemstones.

to,” he

away, crossing my arms. It’s a little

us. I’m not suicidal.” I say as I stand up and motion Shane over. Jax cocks

falls over his

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

I say, poking my

actually off to train. I’m going

join you. I could use a workout.” He says.

The man is pure

to though, he’s done his part, and he should

his life. I’m waiting… waiting for that moment he rejects me… I was meant to once I

I marked one another to break the bond between Shane and me and I know I have begun seeing him as someone who is always there, someone I know

right.

I scoop

ball in his hands.

He replies with

short legs of yours

})

say as I walk towards the

still short in my books,” he counters, making me give him another

with a

I drop Shane off at Mishiko’s. Mishiko is the wife and mate

closest friends.

Aya is eleven months old now, and she is a happy baby who loves Shane’s

it right back, and following up with a kick before I step back so

I almost trip over

with a smirk

balance.

standing so close?”

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

along my hips.

another and

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

and I look away.

and I

stomach and neck. I look around

towel. Well, who cares?

to look pretty.

work out? The

say with a jerk of my head towards

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

to spar?” he