Wanted Bonds E-Book

Eunice Amnell

• Herausgeber: Sentient Hen House
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Armed with a forged identity and burdened by a problematic instinctual magic, I came to Crawford Werewolf University with one mission—to unravel the chilling mysteries shrouding the untimely demise of a few pack observers, and, in doing so, extinguish the insidious thread of untraceable deaths.

Little did I know that fate had another plan in store for me...

Enter Caden Crawford, the charismatic werewolf Alpha who sets my heart and body ablaze; his twin brother, Aiden Crawford, who wants to be more than a friend; and his beta and best friend, Mateo, the enigmatic beta who seems to hate me. And let’s not forget Levi, my Vampire childhood instructor turned best friend and unrequited love, who doesn’t want to be in a romantic relationship with me.

They are the bonds I’ve yearned for, the fated mates my soul craves. But our path is strewn with insurmountable obstacles and forces beyond our control threaten to tear us apart at every turn.

Can our bonds withstand the trials that await us, or will the forces beyond our control tear us apart?

Wanted Bonds is book one of four in Their Fated Mate series, and 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

Wanted Bonds

Their Fated Mate Book 1

Copyright © 2023 by Eunice Amnell

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Contents

1. Aurora

2. Aurora

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

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Acknowledgments

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1

Aurora

The weapons training class members were seated on sparring mats, waiting for Professor Grayson—the current head of Camdine Academy’s Supernatural Council Special Training—to start the lecture on Cath Cróga’s recently released weapon: the dagger that could be sheathed and curved to form a boomerang. However, before he could, a girl burst into the training hall and threw down the gauntlet.

“Professor, Aurora Byrne has wronged me, and I’m here to challenge her to a duel.”

At the sound of my name, I looked up from the little rabbit on my bracelet that I’d been fiddling with and stared at the silver-haired girl standing in front of our class.

She was beautiful, with delicate features and long legs that looked great in the shorts she was wearing. However, she was definitely not a senior student due to graduate at the end of the academy year, like me, which was why I didn’t know her, and she shouldn’t have known me.

But there she was, standing with her arms crossed over her ample chest, glaring at me with gritted teeth as if I’d killed her pet.

“Um . . . may I ask why you’re having this duel with Aurora?” Professor Grayson looked as bewildered as I felt.

“I know she’s the daughter of powerful people, but my parents are powerful, too, so I refuse to tiptoe around her like everyone else at the academy does. Since she doesn’t want to let go of my true mate the easy way, we’ll duel it out, and if I win, she has to stay away from him.” She glared at me.

“But . . . Aurora doesn’t have a combative instinctual magic like you, and you’re no match for her physical combat skills. Elle, why don’t you try solving this with a conversation?” Professor Grayson asked.

“Professor, are you trying to defend her? She threatened my true mate and refused to let him mate with me just because her father has a prominent position in the Supernatural Council.”

Murmurs filled the room.

Elle turned away from Professor Grayson and stared at me defiantly. “I heard your mother is a Fae Omega with several mates? Is this what she does? Steal other people’s true mates by enticing or threatening them, then tell everyone she’s their true mate?”

While she had a pretty face, Elle had a nasty mouth.

Apart from the fact that I hadn’t stolen anyone’s true mate, it was annoying that, just like everyone else, she was making the same assumptions about Fae Omegas because they had multiple mates.

My mother didn’t choose to be a Fae Omega. She was a mutated, mixed-blood supernatural whose body had created a balance between all the supernatural factions she belonged to, and so she had multiple true mates from the different factions.

The murmuring increased as I moved in two quick strides to stand in front of Elle and slapped her.

I growled out a warning from my werewolf half. “You may have something against me and I don’t mind getting insulted, but leave my parents out of this. There’s a limit to trash talk, you know?”

She glared down at me, and thunder clapped in the sky.

I glared right back, even though she was about two inches taller than me.

“Professor Grayson, please give us a good dueling station for a magical and physical battle. I think this junior is a little delusional about her strength, so I’m going to teach her a lesson before we talk about the so-called true mate I supposedly stole.”

“Aurora, she can control lightning. Are you sure?” Professor Grayson was a great instructor, but he was a little too much of a pacifist to be in charge of training the next Supernatural Council rookie warriors.

Every member of the Supernatural Council Special Training Class had Supernatural Council veteran parents, and we’d all earned our right to be here with hard-earned SC positive points. As such, we weren’t going to recruit training when we graduated, like our other classmates. Instead, we would join the rookies fighting their way up the Supernatural Council recruit ranking ladder to determine our first positions in the Council.

In the Supernatural Council, strength and integrity were required to earn respect, so how could I back down from a duel with a little junior just because she could play with lightning and I couldn’t?

“It doesn’t matter. She has to be able to channel lightning to use it, right?” I said, glaring at Elle, who wore a nasty sneer and my handprint on her cheek.

“All right.” Professor Grayson nodded and walked away to arrange the dueling station.

“Let’s talk. Why do you think I’m threatening your true mate?” I asked with my hands on my hips.

Her eyebrows knitted together in confusion for a second, then she thrust her chin forward and renewed her glare. “You didn’t think Ezra would tell me you refused to let him go after he told you he’d found his true mate and couldn’t continue your relationship, did you?”

Her words shocked me, but I didn’t let it show. “What would you say if I told you Ezra didn’t tell me he had a true mate?”

“I don’t believe you! He definitely told you.” She raised her voice. “You just don’t want to admit that you’re the clingy bitch who refused to let him go.”

The way she spoke made me clench my teeth to hold back the urge to give her a good beating, but I restrained myself because I knew I was going to pummel her in the duel later for even daring to speak disrespectfully about my parents.

“Here,” I said, throwing her my phone, which I’d opened to my private messages with Ezra. “Take a look at the messages he sent this morning. Do they sound like they’re from someone who asked me to break up because he had a true mate?”

The blaze of fury in her eyes convinced me she was telling the truth. My boyfriend of the last six months had indeed found his true mate, but kept it to himself while lying to his true mate that he’d tried to break up with me unsuccessfully.

Anger burned in my chest, but it couldn’t quite conceal the hurt. I’d liked Ezra. I’d trusted him. We’d been on-and-off academy sparring partners for over a year, and I’d thought I knew enough about him for us to try dating.

Of course, I’d gone into it with an ulterior motive, but I’d given it up when I realized that dating him to get my unrequited love to look at me as something other than his little princess was shitty behavior.

Elle looked devastated as she scrolled through my messages. “But…but when I spoke to your friend…Charlotte said you were the one who refused to let go of Ezra. She said you were threatening his future in the Supernatural Council because he wanted to get into a department led by your father.”

No. Disbelief dowsed my anger, and my voice shook as I asked, “Are you sure about what you’re saying? If you’re slandering an innocent person, I won’t show you any mercy.”

She stepped back for a second before inching forward to give me my phone. “I really spoke to her. She told me you were a tyrant that way, that you liked to stick to other people’s boyfriends. I just thought…If your friend could say that about you, doesn’t that mean she’s right?”

My stomach dropped, and I shook my head. My best friend couldn’t have said that. She couldn’t.

“Elle—” I was about to ask a question when Professor Grayson walked into the room.

“The dueling station is ready,” he announced.

It took a lot of effort to put away the possibility that my best friend had betrayed me for unknown reasons, but I did it. I had to focus on this duel. I could understand why Elle was angry, but I had no plans to spare her. Getting pummeled in public was what she deserved for insulting my parents.

Taking a deep breath, I stood to my full height and walked toward the dueling station, ready to go all out, even though I’d stopped really trying in sparring sessions since my second year at the academy. After all, I’d been receiving special training since I could walk.