Unwanted Bonds E-Book

Eunice Amnell

• Herausgeber: Sentient Hen House
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

I found the bonds I wanted all along, but with how complicated these men are, I’m not sure we can make this work.

Following Caden and Mateo's little stint, I made up my mind to steer clear of any romantic involvement with the Crawford boys.

It's clear that despite the bonds between us, we're not meant to be.

Now, my priority is to swiftly accomplish my mission and sever ties with the Crawford Pack and the Crawford boys for good.

Unfortunately, my plans fall through when Angelique is found dead, and I become the primary suspect in her murder.

Given this new turn of events, I'm uncertain about how much longer I can maintain my false identity.

Moreover, should my true identity be revealed, I'll undoubtedly face expulsion from the pack long before I can complete my mission.
Fortunately, Levi and I have reconciled, and with his support, I believe I can make this work.

Unwanted Bonds is book three of four books in Their Fated Mate series and it ends on a cliffhanger.

*If you like these tropes: fated mates, reverse harem / why choose romance, badass female main characters, cinnamon roll Alphas, childhood sweetheart romance, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, werewolf romances, etc, this series is for you.

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Eunice Amnell

Unwanted Bonds

Their Fated Mate Book 3

Copyright © 2023 by Eunice Amnell

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Contents

Dedication

1. Caden

2. Levi

3. Aurora

4. Aurora

5. Aurora

6. Aurora

7. Aurora

8. Aurora

9. Aurora

10. Aurora

11. Aurora

12. Aurora

13. Aurora

14. Aurora

15. Aurora

16. Aurora

17. Aurora

18. Aurora

19. Levi

20. Aurora

21. Aurora

22. Aurora

23. Aurora

24. Aurora

25. Aurora

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Dedication

Chapter 11 of this book is dedicated to the foster family who welcomed me into their home for several months, allowing me to prepare and sit for my final exams in their home when my parents moved out of state.

Thanks for giving me a second home outside of home! ❤️

1

Caden

I growled, the muscles in my body tensing as the door swung open, interrupting Aurora’s interrogation.

I’d ordered everyone to stay downstairs before I followed Aiden upstairs to confront her. Technically, the only werewolves at this party who could’ve defied such an order were my brother and Aurora, and they were both in the room with me, so it was an unpleasant surprise to hear the door open to admit an unwanted guest.

Worse yet, I’d never met the auburn-haired, six-foot man who walked into the room with furious green eyes. And even though he was neither one of our invited guests nor a member of my pack and had thus not disobeyed my order, his presence still aggravated me.

I couldn’t put my finger on it, but something about him raised my hackles. It could’ve been the annoying vampire scent or the anger rolling off him like waves crashing on the shoreline. Of course, Aurora raising her arms for a hug like a little girl didn’t help.

“Who the hell are you?” I asked, standing to my full height, only to realize that he was a little taller than me.

After giving Aurora his blazer, he turned to face me, staring at me with a condescending look that had never been directed at me before today. “I’m her vampire.”

I glanced at Mateo and received a nod from him, confirming that this was indeed the vampire he caught Aurora having sex with in her room.

Aiden stood up abruptly and moved closer to the vampire and Aurora. “Wait, are you Levi? Aurora’s…”

“Yes, I’m Levi, Aurora’s best friend. And you must be the next ruling generation of the Crawford Pack. I haven’t seen much of you, but I’m already disappointed,” he said in a disparaging tone while locking gazes with every one of us.

“Levi, stop. Leave them alone. It’s my fault,” Aurora said, bringing my attention to her and the blazer wrapped around her waist.

“Your fault? How is this your fault? These assholes just think so much of themselves that they believe everyone’s after their money…and their status.” He turned to glare at us. “Well, I’ve got news for you. Money isn’t everything in the world, and even if it is, Aurora has—”

Levi stopped as Aurora stood behind him on the bed and tapped his shoulder twice.

He turned to her, their gazes locking as they shared a silent conversation, which was very annoying because I couldn’t understand or take part in it. When they finished, the vampire glanced at us once before scooping her effortlessly into a bridal carry.

Then, with her face buried in his neck, she apologized in a quiet, hoarse voice that made me doubt myself for the third time this evening. “I’m sorry. I have no plans to do anything to your family. I just didn’t have any self-control. I can’t leave the Crawford Pack yet, but I’ll definitely disappear from your lives forever once the semester is over.”

With my heart beating so fast I felt it would plunge out of my chest, I watched my true mate leave with the unknown vampire. I parted my lips to say something, but I couldn’t find the words, so I stood in the same spot, trying to reassure myself that I was right. Aurora’s origin and many of her actions were indeed questionable. Cooperating with Mateo so we could interrogate her at her most vulnerable state was for the good of my pack.

As I stood there, memories of Aurora flashed through my mind, warring with the anger and bitterness that had clouded my judgment all day. Without it, I realized that the way Mateo and I had chosen to confront her by making a public viewing of her having sex with him might’ve gone too far. But wasn’t it too late to apologize?

If I went after her now, in front of my pack, what about my pride? And even if I had made a mistake, she shouldn’t have run away before talking everything out with me. After all, I was her true mate.

Remembering that she was my only true mate in this world made me run down the stairs after her, anyway. However, by the time I got outside, I could only watch the vampire drive away with my mate, leaving me with the sinking feeling that I’d messed up.

Aiden and I stood outside in the cold for a while, staring after the car that had long disappeared from view. After a single glance at each other, we walked back to the party without speaking to each other, moving straight to the second living room with the big TV on which Mateo had broadcasted his seduction of Aurora.

Before I could do anything, Aiden kicked the TV to the ground, breaking its screen and revealing just how angry he was that we’d embarrassed Aurora in front of the whole pack.

And he was right. We shouldn’t have tarnished her reputation like that. She wasn’t everyone’s favorite in the first place, especially since what she’d said at the bar had been spread around the university.

Even though the rift I’d created between myself and my true mate might’ve been irreparable, I had to try to remedy it.

I grabbed Ryan’s arm to get his attention and whispered to him, “Gather everyone in the big hall. We need to talk. Tell them…anyone who tries any funny business will face my wrath.”

Within ten minutes, the hall was full of people, and the murmuring in the hall was rising steadily.

Only a small group of guests had been in the hall when the video started playing, so I asked a question first. “If you saw the video in the big living room down the hall, please raise your hand.”

Gradually, people in the crowd obeyed.

“All right. As your future Alpha, I’m going to give you an important order today. If you recorded any videos or the video was sent to you, delete them and any backups you may have made right now. After today, you’re never going to talk about what happened to anyone, including those at this party. Do you understand?” I gave the order with the Alpha dominance I’d been born with, which my father had helped me train for the purpose of leading the Crawford Pack.

“Understood, Alpha.” Everyone in the hall looked up at me, their eyes glowing as their wolf-halves responded on their behalf.

“All right, if you took any videos, delete them now.”

After watching and making sure they did, I left Ryan to supervise the rest of the party and take note of anyone who tried to bring up what had happened. I would deal with them later.

Once that was settled, I grabbed Aiden’s arm and dragged him out of the big hall, refusing to let go of him until we got back to the room where Mateo and Aurora had been together.

There was a faint smell of sex and Mateo and Aurora’s intermingled scents in the room. Mateo was still seated where we’d left him, with his eyes fixed on the ceiling like he was stoned. But he was the kind of person who could never cede control to substances of any kind, so he was definitely not.

He just showed regret differently. He got paralyzed by it, and he was usually too proud to apologize or attempt to remedy it until he’d spent hours, days, or weeks regretting, rethinking, and agonizing over it.

“Hey, what the hell, Caden? What do you want?” Aiden glared at me as he pulled his arm out of my grip.

While I loved my twin very much, I didn’t like how stubborn he could get, so stubborn that he couldn’t see what was right in front of him sometimes. Just because I’d found a close friend when I was younger, he’d closed himself off to me. And because our father had gotten a much-needed Luna to take over our mother’s position in the pack, he’d all but separated himself from our family, living with us but barely interacting. His stubbornness, mixed with a tinge of self-righteousness, was so blind that he usually refused to see what was right in front of him. That was why he still didn’t know that our father and his current Luna Eleanor were a contracted couple who didn’t even sleep in the same room.

However, right now, all that mattered was what he knew about my mate and the vampire who’d taken her away. “Tell me everything you know about Aurora.”

He sneered. “And why should I tell you anything after the stunt you and Mateo just pulled? You guys are so—”

Filled with pride over my destined relationship and goddess-given bond with Aurora, I interrupted him. “She’s my true mate. Is that enough—”

Mateo snapped out of his stupor and straightened up. “No, that can’t be true…Aurora is my true mate!”

“Mateo, you have to be making a mistake. I swear—”

“Moon Goddess!” Aiden plopped down on the bed, wearing a dumbfounded expression.

If Mateo’s words had been unbelievable, Aiden’s were nearly incomprehensible. “Aurora’s just like her mother. She has multiple mates. She’s my true mate, too.”

“Wait a minute. Are you sure Aurora didn’t use some kind of charm or spell to make us all think we’re her true mates?” Mateo stared at Aiden nervously, like his answer was the most important thing in the world.

“Can you stop thinking the worst about Aurora all the time? I did some…well, a lot of research. There really are Fae Omegas in this world, and they truly have multiple true mates. According to the articles I read, other than making instant connections with their true mates, Fae Omegas can’t identify their true mates when they meet them like other werewolves. Although Aurora might’ve been attracted to each of us when she met us, she had no idea we were her mates…except one of you told her. Did you tell her? Caden?”

I shook my head in disbelief, feeling shocked beyond belief. “I thought she knew we were true mates.”

“Mateo?”

“I thought she knew but didn’t want to admit it because she wanted to be with Caden.” Mateo started pacing, and I just knew from the strangled look on his face that he’d done some other things to hurt Aurora while I wasn’t looking because of his assumption.

“Why didn’t you tell her?” I asked Aiden.

“I asked her a couple of questions and realized she didn’t know we were true mates. I didn’t tell her at first because I wanted to get to know her and didn’t want to scare her away. By the time I was ready to come clean, I found out about your relationship with her and things just kept getting f*cking complicated…” Aiden released an exasperated sigh, which I wanted to echo.

“How are we going to get her to forgive us?” I couldn’t help asking as I sat on the bed and held my head in my hands.

“Us?” Aiden asked in an incredulous tone with his brows raised. “That’s you and Mateo’s problem. I’m going to give Aurora some time to calm down, then I’ll worm my way right back into her good graces.”

Before I could speak, he stood up and sauntered out of the room, leaving behind a suffocating cloud of regret that threatened to consume me.

2

Levi

Instead of driving her back to the Davis’s home, I took Aurora to my rented apartment on the outskirts of Crawford Town. As far as I was concerned, the Davis’s home wasn’t a safe place for her anymore, not while their daughter hated Aurora as much as she did.

I couldn’t begin to imagine how much longer the Crawford boys would have continued to intimidate and demean her if I hadn’t overheard Alice Davis giggling on the phone as she left for the party, hinting that Aurora was finally about to get what she deserved.

Because I’d been lying in Aurora’s bed, soaking in her addictive poppy scent that saturated her pillows, I hadn’t immediately processed what Alice had said. It took a while to realize someone had something planned against Aurora, and though my little princess could handle anything thrown at her, I couldn’t help feeling concerned. So I’d gone to that party to find my mate crying under the onslaught of accusations from the next generation of the Crawford Pack’s ruling members.