Bound by Love

BOUND BY LOVE THE ALLIANCE SERIES BOOK 10 BRENDA K DAVIES CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Chapter 58 Chapter 59 Chapter 60 Chapter 61 Chapter 62 Chapter 63 Chapter 64 Chapter 65 Chapter 66 Chapter 67 Chapter 68 Epilogue Author’s Note Sneak Peek Find The Author Also from the Author About the Author Copyright © 2022 Brenda K. Davies All rights reserved. Warning: All rights reserved. The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work, in whole or part, in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, is illegal and forbidden, without the written permission of the author. This is a work of fiction. Characters, settings, names, and occurrences are a product of the author’s imagination and bear no resemblance to any actual person, living or dead, places or settings, and/or occurrences. Any incidences of resemblance are purely coincidental. CHAPTER ONE Knowing he 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. Had they seen 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 or how, 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 never truly commiserate with the man because, while Caro was his mate and he would protect her, he didn’t love her like Logan loved Elena. He never would. Centuries ago, he stopped being capable of love. Caro had already burrowed deeper under his skin than he would have believed possible for anyone. He’d make sure she didn’t get any further. While she’d made him fail in his