Haunted Bond by Morgan B. Lee

Author:Morgan B. Lee [Lee, Morgan B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 236110149
Published: 2025-12-13T08:00:00+00:00

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KAENON

I stand in the hallway, using my heightened hearing to listen to my mate speak with her ghostly companion. Then I slip back into the washroom across the hall, shutting the door so my mate will not overhear as I whisper their words to Athanis once more.

He translates for me. "She says she desires only one boih-frend. I do not know this word, but from context I believe it to be another term for a lover."

Only one lover?

But what will become of these other males who are so protective and adoring of my mate? I frown and go out to listen in once more, then return to the washroom, relaying everything I heard, word for word, from each of them.

Athanis thinks for a moment before translating. "Your mate does not believe she is worthy of more love than what one temporary mate can give her. She worries she will disappoint multiple lovers. Her lovely, blue-haired spirit guardian is unhappy with this and is urging your mate to give all four of the males under this roof a chance to please her. Alas, Elise is fearful and says she requires more convincing."

My chest aches as I step out of the washroom once more, frowning at the door to my mate’s chambers.

How could she doubt what she is worthy of? Someone must have hurt my mate deeply in the past to make her believe she is insufficient for the mates whom fate intends for her.

"I will convince her," I whisper low so she will not hear, looking at Athanis with determination. "We all will. My mate deserves all she can have and more. Why should she doubt herself when it is clear every male here would die for her, just as I now would?"

"Hoo thafuhck arreoo tawk ingtoo?" the red-haired blessed one demands as he steps into the end of the hall. "Eyeth ought yoowerr go ingtoo thuhba throom."

Athanis quickly translates for me, giving me the right words to say. I clear my throat and walk closer to face the blessed one without bothering my mate.

"Yes, I relieved myself into the magic cauldron."

He looks at me like I just professed an undying love for sniffing monster droppings. Maybe Athanis's words were not the right ones to say, after all. It is frustrating not to have the words to tell these other males everything my mate just confessed to her guardian spirit.

But the blessed one—Asher, the others call him—mutters something I do not understand before taking my arm to pull me even further away from my mate's door. He must wish to take every care not to disturb her with our voices, and I am pleased by his thoughtfulness.

As we get farther away, one of his hands glows green. It disappears into nothing as his expression turns to one of great focus, as though he is seeking something before he withdraws a strange, curved object from the nothingness.

He holds up the object and speaks in his own tongue at length. He sounds almost cross, but I am beginning to think that is just his temperament.

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