Wanted Bonds: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance

Eunice Amnell

Wanted Bonds

Their Fated Mate Book 1

Copyright © 2023 by Eunice Amnell

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Contents

Book Description

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

About the Author

Book Description

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.

1

Aurora

It happened at the start of my Supernatural Council Special Training Class. The SCST class was a class designed for Camdine Academy students getting special training to be members of the Supernatural Council, the most powerful organization of the eleven supernatural organizations existing in the human realm.

It was a weapon training class, which meant that we were all seated on sparring mats waiting for the professor to start lecturing us about Cath Cróga’s recently released weapon, the dagger that could be sheathed and curved to form a boomerang.

However, before Professor Grayson, the current head of Camdine Academy’s SCST Class, could start teaching, 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 attached to my bracelet, which I was fiddling with because of boredom, and stared at the silver-haired girl standing in front of our class.

She was a beautiful girl with delicate features that made people around her instinctively feel like caring for her and super long legs that looked great in the shorts she was wearing. However, she was definitely not a senior student who was going to graduate at the end of the academy year like me, which was why I didn’t know her, and she shouldn’t know me. But there she was, standing with her arms crossed over her ample chest, glaring at me with gritted teeth as if I killed her pet.

Um . . . may I ask why you’re having this duel with Aurora? Professor Grayson looked as bewildered as I, and every other person in our training hall felt.

I know she is the daughter of powerful people. That prominent Fae Omega, Amelia Byrne, right? I also know that her father has a prominent position in the Supernatural Council, but my parents are powerful, too. I refuse to walk around her like everyone else at the Academy does. Since she doesn’t want to let go of my true mate the easy way, then we’ll duel it out and if I win, she has to stay away from my true mate. She said, still glaring at me.

But . . . Aurora doesn’t have battle-type instinctual magic like you, and you’re no match for her physical combat skills. Elle, are you sure you want to duel with her? Maybe you shouldn’t make a hasty decision? Professor Grayson asked again.

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 department he hopes to be a part of. Professor, are you trying to defend her?

Murmurs filled the room as Elle turned away from Professor Grayson and stared at me as I stood up from where I was sitting on a sparring mat.

She continued talking, staring at me with a defiant look. I heard Fae Omegas have more than one mate? Is this what your mother does? Steal other people’s true mates by enticing or threatening them and then tell everyone that she’s their true mate?

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

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

My mother hadn’t wanted multiple mates, but she didn’t have a choice. After all, she was a mutated mixed-blood supernatural whose body had created a special balance between all the supernatural factions she belonged to, making her a distinct supernatural who had multiple true mates from different supernatural factions.

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

I stared up at her face, which had turned to the side with her wavy bob covering it, and growled out a beastly warning from me and my werewolf half. Didn’t your parents teach you not to talk about other people’s parents when you want to duel with them? There’s a limit to trash talk, you know?

She turned back to glare down at me, even as thunder clapped in the sky and I glared right back at her, 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 little junior is a little disillusioned about her strength and I’m going to teach her a lesson before we talk about her so-called true mate that I supposedly stole.

Aurora, she can control lightning, are you sure? Professor Grayson was a great instructor, but I had always felt that he was a little too much of a pacifist to be the one in charge of training the next Camdine Academy warriors that were going directly for recruitment ranking in the Supernatural Council.

Every member of the SCST class had Supernatural Council veteran parents and special training. We had all earned our right to be in the SCST class with hard-earned positive Supernatural Council points, even though many people felt that my father had stuffed me into the class. As such, unlike other Camdine Academy graduates, we weren’t going to recruit training when we graduated. When we graduated, we would join the rookies fighting their way up the Supernatural Council recruit ranking ladder to determine what our first rookie positions in the Supernatural Council would be. And in the Supernatural Council, strength and integrity were required to earn respect.

As a Supernatural Council warrior, 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, clenching my fists and glaring