Free Mated & Blooded, A Blood Ties Novel, Book 1 by Kalalea George

days since I saw my beloved with
my eyes. It took all of my strength not to burst into that
dilapidated place she was staying in and blood with her. I knew it
would kill me, but I was beginning to wonder if that wasn’t the
perfect way to go. It would make me less of a coward and at least I
would have felt her flesh and kissed her lips before dying. I
deserved that much didn’t I? But that would hurt her, so instead I
kept my distance and hid my emotions from her.
    At first, feeling her emotions was a bit of a
shock to me. I knew that once we were a blooded couple that we
would always know exactly how each other felt. I hadn’t expected to
feel her emotions without blooding though. It’s just that my
beloved has such a strong soul. It had endured so much pain in its
short lifetime that it had grown stronger than the average soul.
That however left me in a strange place. I was able to feel
everything my beloved felt. I knew when she was happy, scared,
agitated and angry.
    Most days my beloved was happy and content.
That made me happy, since I knew she had such a hard life before
coming to BlueRidge. I was glad to know that the wolf could keep
her happy and that her life would be okay without me. He wasn’t the
worse thing in the world; he also wasn’t best thing either. He was
a little too pushy and controlling. He didn’t recognize that my
beloveds soul needed to be more carefree. Instead he worried too
much for her safety and kept her tied up in knots. Well, at least
he didn’t hurt her like the wolves from her past and for that alone
he had my vote.
    Today my beloved wasn’t happy or content. She
was actually agitated and nervous. Not the kind of agitation she
felt when the wolf was being too dominant with her, this was
different, it was laced with fear. That was something I didn’t like
at all. I never wanted my beloved to suffer the kind of fear that
used to rule her life.
    Suddenly I realized she was physically
getting father away from me. Her soul was screaming at me to find
her and claim her. She needed me. I knew that she had to be
suffering physically just as I was. It can be pure agony to be
separated from your beloved. I tried to force the pain out of my
mind. I knew it was better for her to experience it now than after
I was gone for good. It was the gentler easier way to break our
bond. I knew that with a little more time the separation would be
easier for her. Eventually her soul would stop calling for me on
this plateau and wait until we both moved into the ever after.
    Then I remembered her old pain. The pain she
had all over her soul before she even met me. She had been used and
abused. She spent her life in a forced solitude. While we vampires
were by nature solitary creatures, she was a wolf and being alone
had caused her severe pain. Without thought, I found myself
following her as she moved closer to the Northern Star
territory.
    Northern Star, those were the wolves who had
hurt my beloved in the first place. I couldn’t understand why would
she be returning to them? She should not be going anywhere near
those nasty wolves. I felt the physical pain get more pronounced in
my beloved. I hated that she ached, maybe now was not the time for
a separation after all. I just needed to get a little closer so
that her pain would stop.
    Vampires are said to have the ability to run
well over one hundred miles per hour without breaking a sweat.
Before today I would have said that was stretching the truth, now
however I realized with the proper motivation one hundred miles per
hour was in fact achievable. Actually, I know that I was moving
faster than that. I managed to catch up to my beloved and her wolf
traveling companion in less than thirty minutes.
    I could feel my beloved was very nearby. Her
emotions were coming to me with crisp clarity. I had intended to
snatch her from the wolf and find out exactly why she was returning
to Northern Star when I was suddenly overwhelmed by her feelings of
hunger. The