Found Bonds

By Eunice Amnell

I have always yearned for a bond that would make my heart race, make my body sing, and ignite my soul.

Now, I have found four bonds that have woven themselves into my life, but the complications in our relationships threaten to unravel our entangled destinies.

I’ve dreamed about being with Levi since I was a teenager but he keeps disappointing me.

Caden embodies everything I've ever desired in a partner—gentle, kind, patient—a true Alpha who knows how to ignite the fire within my Alpha wolf half. However, he has a mysterious bond with Mateo and I’m not sure how I feel about it.

Mateo harbors a deep-seated resentment towards me and views me as a replica of the woman who ruined his father. Our instincts should make us enemies, yet an irresistible attraction pulls us together, defying logic and reason.

And then there's Aiden, the best friend I've always longed for, who wants to claim my heart. But as I navigate the complexities of these interwoven relationships, I hesitate to involve him in this twisted tapestry of emotions.

Found Bonds is book two of four books in Their Fated Mate series and ends on a cliffhanger.

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sentient Hen House
• Release date: Jul 25, 2023
• ISBN: 9791222429557

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Eunice Amnell

Found Bonds

Their Fated Mate Book 2

Copyright © 2023 by Eunice Amnell

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Contents

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1. Aurora

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. Aiden

15. Aurora

16. Aurora

17. Aurora

18. Aurora

19. Mateo

20. Aurora

21. Aurora

22. Nyra

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I have always yearned for a bond that would make my heart race, make my body sing, and ignite my soul.

Now, I have found four bonds that have woven themselves into my life, but the complications in our relationships threaten to unravel our entangled destinies.

I’ve dreamed about being with Levi since I was a teenager but he keeps disappointing me.

Caden embodies everything I’ve ever desired in a partner—gentle, kind, patient—a true Alpha who knows how to ignite the fire within my Alpha wolf half. However, he has a mysterious bond with Mateo and I’m not sure how I feel about it.

Mateo harbors a deep-seated resentment towards me and views me as a replica of the woman who ruined his father. Our instincts should make us enemies, yet an irresistible attraction pulls us together, defying logic and reason.

And then there’s Aiden, the best friend I’ve always longed for, who wants to claim my heart. But as I navigate the complexities of these interwoven relationships, I hesitate to involve him in this twisted tapestry of emotions.

Found Bonds is book two of four books in Their Fated Mate series and ends on a cliffhanger.

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

1

Aurora

As we moved closer, I tried to get my heart to stop beating as fast as it was, trying to pretend that I was indifferent while holding onto Nyra’s arm and struggling not to squeeze Aiden’s fingers that were intertwined with me.

Everything about me and in me was at hyper-attention at that moment, especially when I locked gazes with Caden.

As soon as I could break my gaze away, I looked away from Caden and tried to distract myself by glancing at Mateo, Aiden, and Nyra.

Before we could say anything, Caden unceremoniously pushed Alice off his lap, glaring at her so fiercely that she went to sit opposite him at the far end of the table with her head bowed so her hair could cover her flushed face.

After he removed his gaze from Alice, Caden placed his elbows on the table and clasped his fingers together, putting his chin on his clasped fingers as he stared at me with a scary, smug smile on his face. It was a smile I was familiar with. And it held a lot of promises as his sour lemon scent filled the air, making me want to swear at myself for telling him that his scent was my weakness.

Hey guys, this is Aurora Byrne, my baby girl and her friend, Nyra. Aiden introduced us.

I stepped on Aiden’s feet again, ignoring the quiet snarl that left Caden’s mouth at those words.

Everyone turned to stare at Caden as Aiden corrected himself with a smirk. Oh, pardon me, my friend, who will soon become my girlfriend.

I shook my head at how insufferable Aiden seemed to become when we were in the public eye. Aurora, you remember Mateo, right? This is my twin brother, Caden and this is Ryan, Asher, Angelique, Leo, Nathan . . .

Nice to meet you, I said with a polite wave, pretending not to notice the way Caden’s brows raised because I pretended not to know him and listening as Nyra repeated the same words.

Nice to meet you, too. Many people at the table glanced at each other and started responding to us, some with smiles and many with perfunctory attitudes.

Then we sat and started eating. I focused on my food while listening to the discussions around me and studiously ignoring Caden’s glances at me.

So, what’s with the gloves? It was Nathan, if I remembered his name clearly, that asked this question.

I had already anticipated this question when I saw the weird glances they threw my way as I pulled off my full velvet gloves to reveal the fingerless gloves underneath them. I have Haphephobia. It—

Haphe what now? Ryan asked.

I don’t like being touched and I react negatively to touch, I said as I pushed a chip into sour cream before pushing it into my mouth.

Really? Because we saw the videos and pictures of you and Aiden all over each other on Saturday and you didn’t look averse to touch at all. Are you sure the gloves aren’t just an act to help you get attention? Angelique, the girl with the straightest waist-long hair I’d ever seen, asked provocatively.

I didn’t react to the challenge in her words. I knew her type, snobby rich girls who didn’t want to admit strangers they didn’t deem important enough or controllable enough into their inner circle. Just like Stella in Ni Daonni City.

Instead, I said, after taking my time to finish the chips in my mouth. I don’t react to everyone.

How convenient, She sneered.

I ignored her as I picked up the ketchup bottle beside me and used it to knock off Ryan’s hands that were stretching toward my bare hand on the table.

If I’m in my worst state, I could get a seizure or get violent, so please refrain from touching me just to try it out, I said, squashing Nathan’s hand under the ketchup bottle in my hand when he tried to touch me while pretending to take the ketchup bottle from me.

Before Aiden could say anything, Caden spoke first. Alright, I think it’s pretty logical to respect Aurora’s wishes since we respect everyone’s individual differences, right guys?

There was silence for a moment before everyone started chiming fake ‘Of courses’.

However, I still heard Angelique whisper in a sullen tone, Since when did you care about respecting people’s differences? Hey . . .

Ryan’s cough interrupted her, making everyone at the table go quiet as Aiden pushed his empty tray with only an uneaten bag of fries between us.

We were quite familiar with each other, after spending much of the past two days together, so I picked a fry while putting my unfinished sour cream dip beside the small box of fries.

Just after I did that, though, the two gazes on me became more intense. When I met those gazes, Caden’s gaze only contained something deep and unhappy, and Mateo’s gaze was full of hostility.

To avoid their gazes, I looked down at my fries. I knew how I’d made Caden mad at me by running away when I should have faced him the morning after our one-night stand, but I couldn’t help wondering when or how I’d offended Mateo.

What classes do you have left? Aiden asked, opening the small pocket in my backpack where I kept my schedule.

He knew where it was because he was the one who drove me to school today and he’d seen me pull it out and study it in the car.

Two more classes. Interfaction Communication and Soul Animal Communication.

Whoa, what do you want to do with those? Nyra asked, probably unable to stop herself since she’d already proven that she didn’t want to mingle with Aiden’s friend group with her silence since we sat at their table.

Oh, oh, I know this one. Aurora is a Camdine Academy student, and she’s studying to become a warrior in the Supernatural Council. And her family has two adopted soul animals at home. Willow and Leto. Aiden said, rushing to answer, as if to prove that he knew more about me than anybody else.

Wow, you sure know a lot about her, Caden said through gritted teeth.

Yeah, and they only met each other on Friday. And he spent all of yesterday afternoon and evening in her room and they didn’t even invite me to talk with them. Alice said.

I stared at her with disbelief, but Aiden leveled an icy stare at her, speaking in a disparaging tone that I’d never heard him speak in before. So what? Who wants to talk with the girl with the loosest mouth on campus?

Caden waved his hands in the air casually and we all watched as a guy in a black suit appeared out of nowhere and escorted Alice away from the top floor.

I’m sorry, don’t send me away. I won’t speak again . . . Aurora! Help me! She protested, trying to look back at Caden, even though the hefty man in a suit was trying to prevent her from looking back.

Nyra tried to change the subject after she had been taken away. So what kind of soul animal pets do you have?

Shh, don’t call them pets. Leto has ears everywhere. He prefers to call himself an important member of our family. I insisted in a joking tone, moving close to her and opening my phone and my beloved photo album filled with adorable pictures of Leto and Willow to show her the cuteness overload I grew up with. Leto is a fox and Willow is an owl.

I heard soul animals think like people? But how does anyone know that? Can they talk? Ryan said, sipping on his