Page 1 of Bound By Love
CHAPTERONE
Knowinghe couldn’t ignore what he’d seen, and needing answers to the fire he’d glimpsed burning the world, Saber strode over to the bed. Unlike his sister, he didn’t get visions of the future, but he was sure he’d just received one.
Saber lifted Caro’s phone from the nightstand. He’d left his burner phone in the room she’d given him before going to hunt for the night.
He probably should have called Ronan after he killed the demon in the storm drain, but he’d been too focused on feeding, healing, and trying to get Caro out of his system to think about the Alliance. It was time to remedy that.
He would have called Brie directly for answers, but didn’t know her number. Unable to talk to his sister, he punched in Ronan’s number.
The only other number he had for someone in the Alliance was Declan’s, and he’d never called it before. Part of keeping his distance from others was making sure he had as little contact with them as possible.
Ronan was different. He was the king of vampires and the only one who knew the truth about Saber’s history… before Brie returned to his life.
Now, he was the only one Saber trusted enough to reach out to about this, especially since he had Caro to protect now. He glanced back at where his mate remained sleeping soundly on her bed.
My mate.
His intense attraction to her should have alerted him to what was happening, but he’d never seen it coming. There was no changing it either; they’d bound their lives irrevocably together, and he wouldn’t let anything happen to her.
He returned to the glass doors as the phone rang three times before Ronan answered with a gruff, “Hello.”
Saber didn’t think about the fact he might have woken Ronan. Every member of the Alliance was accustomed to not getting a lot of sleep.
Besides, if he had to be awake, so did everyone else involved in this shit. He needed all the help he could get to protect Caro, find answers, and kill the monsters seeking to destroy the world.
“It’s Saber.”
“New phone?”
“One of convenience.”
“Got it.”
“I have to talk to Brie, but I don’t have her number. Do you know it or where she is?”
He heard movement coming through the line, but it didn’t sound like Ronan was getting out of bed. Instead, he must be outside as stones crunched beneath boots, and the wind whistled across the phone while he moved.
“I know where she is. We’ve had an interesting development here,” Ronan said.
Saber’s hand tightened on the phone. Hadtheyseen the world burning too? But before he could ask, Ronan continued speaking.
“Elena’s back.”
It took a few seconds for his words to fully register. When they did, Saber studied the night to ensure the world wasn’t burning again before replying. “What do you mean she’s back?”
“She’s back to her old self again. It’s one of the strangest, most amazing things I’ve ever seen. We have no idea what happened orhow, but one minute she was one of those things, and the next, she was vomiting black bile all over her cage. And now, she’s her old self again, except exhausted and weaker.”
At first, Saber couldn’t respond, but words gradually formed in his mind. “How is that possible?”
“I have no idea,” Ronan replied, “but it happened.”
Saber rested his hand against the glass as he tried to process this information. Before Caro, he cared little about Logan and his injected mate.
The only reason this development interested him was because of the new guerrilla warfare tactic the demons had unleashed by creating the injected. In all his years of working with demons and Savages, he’d never seen anything like it.
He wouldn’t have believed they could do such a thing until it happened. And once they did, it completely changed the game.
As he glanced at Caro, a twinge of sympathy tugged at him for everything Logan had endured. He could nevertrulycommiserate with the man because, while Caro was his mate and he would protect her, he didn’t love her like Logan loved Elena.
