The second legal investment we recently made is a brewery.Which gives us the perfect storage place for our guns.For the law, and everyone else, we look like upstanding citizens as taxpayers and shit.
Meanwhile the underground is very aware we’re the ones who run this damn town.It’s the reason why we don’t have any beef with anyone right now.Except with Cassius, we have the kind of vengeance on both sides that’ll never be resolved unless one of us loses our head.
Getting a call about a dead body at our beach resort is not something I expected.It’s damn bad for business.It also draws the kind of heat from the cops we don’t fucking need.
Going around the corner allows the wind to hit my face and I stumble to a stop.The scent of a woman hits me like a freight train, and I have to shoot a hand out to brace myself against the wall and steady myself.Fuck.No.This cannot be happening.
Closing my eyes, I take a deep breath to be sure what I deep down already know.The scent fills my lungs once more, and there’s no denying; my fated mate is here.Which is why I have to get out of here, like right fucking now.Once I lay eyes on my fated mate, the bond will ignite, making it harder to resist the pull to claim her as mine.
Every supernatural being would be fucking thrilled to run into their fated mate.The one-of-a-kind counterpart who will guarantee offspring and is a perfect partner to spend an eternity with.Being immortal literally means an eternity unless you lose your head.That’s the only way for an immortal to die.
Anyway, my fated mate?I’ve known exactly who she was for a long damn time.She’s Cassius’s sister.I’ve never met her, and yet I know she’s my fated mate due to the fact that my sister and her brother were fated mates, and their arranged marriage was set in stone the second my sister was born.
When Senna met Cassius face-to-face, their bond sparked.According to her she saw her own death in his eyes.Not the warm rush of what the legend of a fated mate indicates.Which is why she ran after letting us know.
This caused the bond between our families to pass on from one sibling to the next to link our blood since we are destined to be together.My family as Neptune descendants, theirs as Salacia descendants.Meaning my brother was tied to Cassius’s sister.
Cassius started his revenge when my sister ran off, he killed both my siblings.Which leads me to right fucking now...where Cassius’s sister is my fated mate.It’s a fact with me being the only unmated male left in my family.His sister is very close to me because her scent is enticing and drawing me in.
I need to leave.
Pushing away from the wall, I’m about to turn when I hear Nathan rumble, “Sevrin, nice of you to join us.”
Shit, there’s no way to slip out without giving the man a few words.“I’ll swing by the station later, Nathan.Right now, I’m dealing with some other stuff.”
He’s standing in front of me when he points and says, “You’re here now, and I only need a few minutes of your time, Sevrin.”
Releasing a sigh, I throw a glance in the direction of the ocean and instead of seeing the sea, my gaze connects with captivating blue eyes.A shudder runs through me, like an electrical surge running up my spine and warming me from the inside out.
I’ve never felt anything flowing through my veins the way I just got hit.Fuck.I’m so damn fucked.Not only because I’m pretty sure the fated mate bond just sparked between us, but the fact my mate happens to be the medical examinator standing next to the dead guy.
Complications have a way of piling up and exploding right in your damn face when you least expect it.I really should have stayed in bed this morning.
CHAPTER TWO
–FOSCA –
