Tethered (The Binding Chronicles, #1)

by Elayna R. Gallea

If there was one thing I had learned over the course of my life, it was that while the romantic love of ballads did not exist, bravery certainly did. People were brave every day, even when they felt like their lives couldn’t go on.

She wasn’t pretty. That was too simple of a word. She was a ray of sunshine in the middle of a dark night. A cool breeze amid a storm. The first flower that bloomed after a long winter. She was an infusion of light into the abyss that was my soul.

Someone so beautiful should never have been made to feel so sad.

His rejection stung more than anything else.

Something about him differed from anyone else I’d ever met, and I stared at him as he held my hand in his.

he eyed the weapon in Luna’s hands. “Is that really necessary, Princess?” “It is,” I growled. “If it makes her happy, she can keep it.”

I will never bite you without your permission.”

In its place, an intricate black swirling tattoo formed a permanent bracelet on my wrist. As thick as three fingers put together, there was no mistaking what this was. Everyone who saw us would know we had been Bound.

but ever since I could remember, darkness and I had never gotten along.

“Just because I didn’t ask for this doesn’t mean you’re not my wife. I take care of what’s mine.”

Why is it that males always think that females are out to get them?”

“Because, Princess, we’re not just Bound.” I took a step back, shaking my head as I worked to wrap my head around this. “We are Tethered.”

that I wasn’t helping matters with the way I pushed you.” I shook my head. “Let’s put it behind us, shall we?”

The moment I said those vows and Bound myself to Luna, her problems became my problems. Her enemies were now my enemies. Even if we broke the Tether, I would always keep her safe.

Our lips met in a crashing symphony of want.

Sebastian kissed me like I was the air, and he was moments away from suffocating. Like he was drowning and I was the only thing keeping him afloat. Like he was the moon, and I was all the stars in the sky, made to shine alongside him.