Death by Betrayal (Book #10 in the Caribbean Murder series)

Death by Betrayal (Book #10 in the Caribbean Murder series)

Jaden Skye · Completed · 49.7k Words

1.2k
Hot
1.2k
Views
354
Added
Share:facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsappreddit

Introduction

DEATH BY BETRAYAL is Book #10 in the #1 Bestselling Caribbean Murder series, which begins with DEATH BY HONEYMOON (Book #1)--a FREE download on Amazon! Cindy and Mattheus part ways, and while he stays in the Caribbean to protect his daughter and her mother, she returns home. Cindy’s sister, Ann, meets her at the airport to welcome her back to this new chapter of her life. Cindy starts to settle back in, to meet old friends and make plans to take on a new job—when a shocking call suddenly comes. It is a call Cindy never could have expected in her wildest dreams, a call that rips her world apart. Someone close to her—too close—has been found murdered in Bermuda. Cindy has no choice but to get on the next plane to Bermuda and hunt for the killer. Before long, Cindy finds herself enmeshed in an underworld of big business and crime. Beside herself, hitting dead ends, Cindy is forced to call Mattheus to help. Once again, their stormy relationship deepens and takes a new turn, as they plunge into solving this crime together. But it all may be too late….

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Cindy boarded the plane home from Anguilla alone. She didn’t want Sean accompanying her back now, it was too much. Someday, maybe? She also realized that Mattheus had to remain in the Caribbean with his daughter and her mother to keep them safe. How long would that last? No one knew. The time had come to make important decisions and Cindy wanted to make them alone. She was through with being influenced by circumstances or passing emotions.

Dressed casually in khaki slacks and an azure blue sweater, her long, auburn hair hanging loosely over her shoulders, Cindy stepped onto the plane. She walked down the aisle, found her seat and then she placed her old familiar carryon bag in the overhead compartment. It was hard to believe this moment had actually come. She and Mattheus were actually separated. He would be staying with Andrea, his daughter and Petra, the mother and former girlfriend. Even though Mattheus had said Petra was just a friend now, the three of them were still a family. And where did Cindy fit in? She really wasn’t sure. How in the world would she explain this turn of events to her sister, Ann? Ann would be waiting for Cindy in the airport as usual to pick her up. Undoubtedly, Ann would barrage Cindy with questions about her relationship with Mattheus right away.

Cindy took her seat at the window, put her head back and closed her eyes. A thousand thoughts toppled over one another, each demanding attention. This visit back to the States was going to be different from the others. Cindy’s life had come to a shifting point. This was a definite juncture in the road and Cindy wasn’t sure which direction to take. Should she hit the pause button on her work as a detective and take the cushy job waiting for her as a crime reporter on a top paper in New York? It was an amazing opportunity and Cindy realized it. Yet, calls to solve murder cases kept coming in, and each call stirred her, made her feel alive. By now Cindy knew the Caribbean like the back of her hand. She had developed rare skills in sniffing out killers wherever they hid. When she was on a case she felt was needed and wanted. She was able to get justice in cases that would otherwise go cold and protect innocent people who’d been falsely accused. That made her feel wonderful. But could she take on these cases alone? Would she and Mattheus ever work together as a team again? These questions hung in the air like smoke.

Cindy’s thoughts were rudely interrupted as the flight attendant began announcing instructions for takeoff. Cindy pulled the seat belt on around her and smiled. She was ready for takeoff, ready to go home. She definitely needed something new.

The flight went easily and to her surprise, Cindy slept lightly through the trip. There would be plenty of time for thrashing things out when she got home. She wanted to feel fresh and rested when she landed. It was important to start off on the right foot.

As they’d arranged, Ann was right there at the airport waiting when Cindy walked off the plane. As they ran to each other and embraced Cindy wondered how she would ever have gotten along all these years without her wonderful sister. It made such a difference to be welcomed home, to know there was somebody waiting for her who really cared.

“I can’t thank you enough for being here,” Cindy said to Ann as they started walking towards baggage claim. “You’re always here for me, don’t miss a thing. You’re an angel, Ann.”

Ann grimaced slightly, “Hardly an angel,” she replied. Then she sighed and looked at Cindy out of the corner of her eye. “What choice do I have, anyway? You’re my little sister, you’re important to me.”

Cindy knew it was so.

“I’m hoping that maybe this time you’ll stay for a while,” Ann continued, “that we won’t have to keep meeting at airports like this.”

Cindy smiled. “I’m sorry,” she said softly, looking over at Ann. Ann looked more tired than usual, as if she’d been under a strain. “I’m afraid I’ve become a bit of a burden.”

“Of course you haven’t,” Ann replied quickly. “I didn’t mean it that way. It’s just that this visit is a bit different. Believe it or not, I have to go back to the airport tonight. I’m leaving on the seven p.m. plane for Bermuda.”

Cindy was surprised. Ann hadn’t mentioned a thing about trip before. “Really?” Cindy said, “how come?”

Ann shrugged lightly, “Frank and I are taking a much needed vacation. He’s been promising me one forever, as you know. This one was actually planned very recently. It’s a spur of the moment thing.”

“Lovely,” said Cindy. Spur of the moment vacations were not like Ann, but it was a good thing, thought Cindy. Everyone needed their time in the sun.

Both Cindy and Ann fell silent driving home to Oyster Bay in the cab. Cindy waited for Ann to start asking about Mattheus, but, to Cindy’s surprise, she didn’t.

Ann finally broke the silence lightly. “Glad to be coming home?” she asked.

“Very,” said Cindy so definitively that Ann looked up at her, surprised.

“Good,” Ann remarked, “very good. I hope you take the job, Cindy. It’s still waiting for you.”

“I know it is,” said Cindy.

“I hope you stay, plant a root, build a new life, either in Oyster Bay or in Manhattan,” Ann continued. “I know Clint’s family wants you to sell the house to them. What’s so bad about that? It’ll force you to make a new start.”

“I plan to keep the house,” Cindy replied.

“You plan to stay and live here?” Ann jumped in.

“I didn’t say that,” said Cindy. “But this house is important to me. I’m not ready to part with it.”

“Keep it if you want to then,” Ann replied, “but don’t keep running back to the Caribbean. Don’t keep running after Mattheus.”

Cindy felt stung. “I’m not running after Mattheus. We’re a team – we work together. I go back to solve cases.”

“I know all that,” said Ann, her voice dipping down, wearily. “I’ve heard it over and over. It’s true and it’s not. I’ve always believed it’s Mattheus that draws you back down there. You run down there to be with him.”

“That’s insulting, Ann,” Cindy replied. “It invalidates the work I do.”

“I have no desire to invalidate the work you,” Ann replied wearily. “Just do it here, help crime victims in a big way. Write about them in the paper, take the bad guys down. Don’t go running around in the Caribbean, putting yourself in constant danger. You deserve more, Cindy. You really do.”

Cindy didn’t want to get into a fight about this now, especially after Ann had gone to the trouble to come to New York and prepare her home for her. Ann arrived a couple of days early, aired the place out, filled the cabinets and fridge with food, and taken the trouble come to the airport to pick Cindy up, even though Ann herself had a flight to board tonight. Cindy knew Ann only wanted the best for her. What Ann never understood though was how wonderful it felt to solve a case, the meaning and power it brought to Cindy’s life. Sure there was danger in the Caribbean, thought Cindy. But there are all kinds of dangers in life, the danger of not doing what you’re meant to do, the danger of taking the easy way out, just marking time instead of really living.

“I’ve arranged for a few people to drop in tomorrow afternoon to see you,” Ann changed the topic as the cab took the familiar exit off the highway and turned towards the street Cindy’s home was on. “I let some folks in town know you were returning and they’re excited to come by and say hello. I prepared finger sandwiches and cookies for them and plenty of fresh lemonade.”

There was never a detail that Ann overlooked. Cindy hadn’t expected her sister to be gone so quickly though after she came home. It would be nice to have a few visitors then come over the next day. Ann was right, being with others would help Cindy acclimate to her new environment.

The cab pulled up to the cottage Cindy had lived in with Clint. It was always there, a haven to return to. Now Clint’s family suddenly wanted to buy it from her, or claim it as their own. But as Cindy got out of the cab and walked up to the front door, she knew the place belonged to her. It always would. Clint’s spirit was there and would always welcome her, give her a place to call home.

A cool breeze greeted Cindy as she entered and looked around the fresh, cheerful space she so loved. As soon as they entered Ann went into the kitchen to prepare something to eat and Cindy brought her bags to her room. It was early spring and Ann had opened Cindy’s bedroom windows and placed a fresh bunch of daffodils in a slim blue vase on a table beside her bed. It was good to be here, better than she’d imagined. Ann was probably right about everything. Cindy should probably settle awhile and take this opportunity to start again.

“Dinner’s ready,” Ann called from the kitchen.

It was only four o’clock in the afternoon, but Cindy was hungry, hadn’t eaten a thing on the plane.

“Coming,” Cindy called back, going to the familiar, pine wood kitchen.

Ann had placed two egg salad sandwiches and small bowls of salad on the rectangular table, along with glasses of fresh lemonade.

Cindy sat down, surprised. Usually there was a warm dinner waiting.

“It’s all I had time for today,” said Ann, noticing Cindy’s reaction. “It’s been so hectic getting ready for the Bermuda trip.”

“Of course, of course,” Cindy suddenly remembered. “Where’s Frank? Is he meeting you down there?”

“Yes,” Ann replied. “Frank goes down to Bermuda from time to time these days to do a little business. So he got down there a day or two earlier and I’m going to meet him tonight.”

“That’s wonderful,” Cindy was happy for her sister. “It’s good to get away.”

“It’s crucial,” Ann echoed as she bit into her crunchy sandwich.

“Yup,” Cindy agreed, biting into her sandwich as well. “Crucial to go and also crucial to come home again.”

They ate quickly and Cindy cleaned up, to free her sister to get ready to leave. Suddenly, Cindy felt upset by her sister’s departure. “I have an idea,” she said, as Ann rolled her suitcase into the living room. “Why don’t I drive you to the airport?”

“There’s no reason for it,” Ann seemed touched. “You’ve just taken a long trip yourself.”

“But I’d really like to,” Cindy objected. Ann had driven her so many times, she wanted to return the kindness.

“Thanks, sweetheart,” Ann replied, “but I’ve ordered a car to take me. It’s simpler.”

It was simpler, and it made perfect sense, but Cindy felt sad at the thought of her sister leaving so abruptly. They usually had more time together to catch up on things. Cindy needed those few extra moments.

“I’ll do it anyway,” Cindy insisted.

“No, really, it’s better this way,” Ann repeated. “I’ll feel better thinking of you settling back down, unwinding, taking the time you need. You run around too much as it is already.”

Cindy couldn’t bring herself to tell her sister that she just wanted a little more time with her now.

“And besides,” Ann said in a lighter tone, “Frank and I can stop back in New York after our trip on our way home. He always enjoys being here. It will round out the vacation. You and I can catch up then.”

“That sounds good,” Cindy agreed and hugged Ann as the car arrived. Ann spotted it through the window and waved at the driver. Then she turned around, blew Cindy a kiss and rolled her suitcase out the front door.

After Ann left the house felt strangely silent and empty. Cindy unpacked slowly, looking at the photos of her and Clint that were still up on the walls. Their arms were around each other, they were happy, carefree, looking forward to a bright life together. It was as if no time had passed, as if everything stayed the same forever, the way you had hoped it would be.

Last Chapters

You Might Like 😍

The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

1.3m Views · Ongoing · Jaylee
Soft hot lips find the shell of my ear and he whispers, "You think I don't want you?" He pushes his hips forward, grinding into the back of my ass and I groan. "Really?" He chuckles.

"Let me go," I whimper, my body trembling with need. "I don't want you touching me."

I fall forward onto the bed then turn around to stare at him. The dark tattoos of Domonic's chiseled shoulders, quiver and and expand with the heave of his chest. His deep dimpled smile is full of arrogance as he reaches behind himself to lock the door.

Biting his lip, he stalks toward me, his hand going to the seam of his pants and the thickening bulge there.

"Are you sure you don't want me to touch you?" He whispers, untying the knot and slipping a hand inside. "Because I swear to God, that is all I have been wanting to do. Every single day from the moment you stepped in our bar and I smelled your perfect flavor from across the room."


New to the world of shifters, Draven is human on the run. A beautiful girl who no one could protect. Domonic is the cold Alpha of the Red Wolf Pack. A brotherhood of twelve wolves that live by twelve rules. Rules which they vowed could NEVER be broken.

Especially - Rule Number One - No Mates

When Draven meets Domonic, he knows that she is his mate, but Draven has no idea what a mate is, only that she has fallen in love with a shifter. An Alpha that will break her heart to make her leave. Promising herself, she will never forgive him, she disappears.

But she doesn’t know about the child she’s carrying or that the moment she left, Domonic decided rules were made to be broken - and now will he ever find her again? Will she forgive him?
The Lycan Prince’s Puppy

The Lycan Prince’s Puppy

847.4k Views · Ongoing · chavontheauthor
“You’re mine, little puppy,” Kylan growled against my neck.
“Soon enough, you’ll be begging for me. And when you do—I’ll use you as I see fit, and then I’ll reject you.”


When Violet Hastings begins her freshman year at Starlight Shifters Academy, she only wants two things—honor her mother’s legacy by becoming a skilled healer for her pack and get through the academy without anyone calling her a freak for her strange eye condition.

Things take a dramatic turn when she discovers that Kylan, the arrogant heir to the Lycan throne who has made her life miserable from the moment they met, is her mate.

Kylan, known for his cold personality and cruel ways, is far from thrilled. He refuses to accept Violet as his mate, yet he doesn’t want to reject her either. Instead, he sees her as his puppy, and is determined to make her life even more of a living hell.

As if dealing with Kylan’s torment isn’t enough, Violet begins to uncover secrets about her past that change everything she thought she knew. Where does she truly come from? What is the secret behind her eyes? And has her whole life been a lie?
Shadows In Durango

Shadows In Durango

696.3k Views · Completed · Bethany Donaghy
Sofia's life is a constant shuffle, hopping from town to town, always looking over her shoulder. Haunted by a dangerous past and the looming threat of her family, she finally lands in the gritty underbelly of Durango, Colorado. With an empty apartment and a burning determination to survive, Sofia enrolls in a new school and starts the hunt for a job in order to stay in town for as long as she can.

But Durango brings its own set of challenges. The first being Vincent Walker: the school's intoxicating bad boy who taunts her relentlessly yet sends mixed signals with his unexpected moments of protection and flirtation. Rumours swirl about his family's deep ties to the criminal underworld, only adding to the mystery that surrounds him and the town.

As Sofia navigates through her new life, she also meets Vincent’s best friend, Daryl— a total sweetheart who offers a stark contrast to Vincent's dangerous allure. Drawn into their world, Sofia's secrets begin to unravel. When Vincent and Daryl discover the truth about her living situation, they demand that she moves in with them, promising her safety and a place to belong.

Torn between the enigmatic Vincent and the endearing Daryl, Sofia finds herself falling for both. But her newfound stability is shattered when her past catches up to her, bringing her toxic ex-boyfriend Ashton back into her life. With his relentless apologies and attempts to win her back, Sofia is thrust into a tumultuous love triangle, all while fearing the return of her father and brother who are determined to take her back home.

Caught between three loves and the ghosts of her past, Sofia must navigate a treacherous path to find where her heart truly belongs. Will she choose the dangerous allure of Vincent, the sweet safety of Daryl, or the familiar yet toxic pull of Ashton? And can she ever truly escape her horrifying past?
HIS REJECTED SECOND CHANCE MATE

HIS REJECTED SECOND CHANCE MATE

427.8k Views · Completed · judels.lalita
"No! It can't be!" I let out an internal hiss. "He would not dare come here!"
"What the f*ck, Zara!" Levi bumped into me and growled behind me.
"Sorry," I mumbled, wide-eyed.
"Is that?" Levi mind-linked, and I nodded my head.
"Zara," my father uttered. "I understand that you are familiar with Alpha Noah."
I slowly nodded my head.
"Great," my father said. "Alpha Noah has also informed me that you are his fated mate."
I gave a nod in response.
"Superb, Alpha Noah has requested your hand."
"Is that so?" I found my voice.
Both my father and Alpha Noah nodded.
"Interesting," I said. "Were you told by Alpha Noah that he rejected me more than a year ago?"
My father's smile wavered as Alpha Noah's face turned to ash.
Did Alpha Noah really believe I would just blindly obey an order from my father without a fight?


Zara is a silver wolf descended from one of the most powerful packs on the continent.
A year after he rejects her, her fated mate comes knocking on her door to tell her he is back to claim her.
Zara turns down his proposal, and he goes behind her back and asks her father for her hand. The old Alpha agrees to the arrangement.
Zara is unhappy and decides to handle things on her own. She informs her father that she has taken a chosen mate, her Beta, and her best friend, Levi—only he has a secret.
What will happen when Zara's second chance mate attends her and Levi's mating ceremony?
Will he stop the proceedings and claim her as his mate?
A story about two broken hearts finding each other and getting sucked into a web of lies and prophecies.
Will Zara find the happiness she so deserves?
Secrets of Us: A Forbidden Love Romance

Secrets of Us: A Forbidden Love Romance

299.8k Views · Ongoing · Miranda Carr
He kisses me for a long time, long enough that it’s me that pulls away and desperately grabs onto his cock. Without words between us, he grabs my legs, lifting me up against the tiled wall and spreads my legs.
He’s angry from the conversation last night. I can feel it, I can see it in his dark eyes. It’s only confirmed when he slams into me without preparing me.
I cry out and he soothes me with kisses on my neck and nibbles on my skin. Still he doesn’t slow down. He starts at a quick pace, at a strength that already has my legs trembling.
I grab onto his shoulders, cries leaving my lips every time he slams into me. It turn wet, not from the water, but from how much he makes my pussy happy.


Alina leaves everything she knows behind after she is in a terrible car accident that tears her family apart. A new home, a new school and a fractured relationship with her mother are only the beginning of the things this change will throw her way. Immediately she catches the attention of three men, and she can’t deny what she feels for them, too. Quickly, and much to her demise, she finds out that their lives are much more intertwined than she would have ever hoped for. She had hoped to discover herself in this new place, but everything only tears her apart. Who will she choose between Zaid, the bad boy, Aiden, her sweet jock, and Jake, and older man who can't seem to keep his hands off of her?
The Alpha King's Human Mate

The Alpha King's Human Mate

311k Views · Ongoing · HC Dolores
“You must understand something, little mate,” Griffin said, and his face softened,

“I have waited nine years for you. That’s nearly a decade since I’ve felt this emptiness inside me. Part of me began to wonder if you didn’t exist or you’d already died. And then I found you, right inside my own home.” 

He used one of his hands to stroke my cheek and tingles erupted everywhere. 

“I’ve spent enough time without you and I will not let anything else keep us apart. Not other wolves, not my drunken father who’s barely holding himself together the past twenty years, not your family  – and not even you.”


Clark Bellevue has spent her entire life as the only human in the wolf pack - literally. Eighteen years ago, Clark was the accidental result of a brief affair between one of the most powerful Alphas in the world and a human woman. Despite living with her father and her werewolf half-siblings, Clark has never felt like she really belonged in the werewolf world. But right as Clark plans to leave the werewolf world behind for good, her life gets flipped upside down by her mate: the next Alpha King, Griffin Bardot. Griffin has been waiting years for the chance to meet his mate, and he's not about to let her go anytime soon. It doesn't matter how far Clark tries to run from her destiny or her mate - Griffin intends to keep her, no matter what he has to do or who stands in his way.
Nanny and Her Four Alpha Bullies

Nanny and Her Four Alpha Bullies

234.5k Views · Completed · Eve Above Story
Chloe's underclass mother is married to a billionaire, and she transfers to an elite school to become the first female werewolf warrior.But her origins make her a thorn in the side of the school's four ruling brothers.They have to take a little baby girl, less than a year old, to school.But the baby girl resists everyone ...... except Chloe.So Chloe, a new adult, is forced to become the baby girl's nanny and live in the bullies' dormitory?
I Am His Wolfless Luna

I Am His Wolfless Luna

182.9k Views · Completed · Heidi Judith
Ethan's fingers kept rubbing back and forth on my clitoris, while his penis kept jumping inside my body. Every joint on my body is sore and screaming for the next orgasm. All too quickly, I feel that electric tension winding tighter, a mounting pressure that threatens to shatter me. My hips lift involuntarily, urging him to continue his exploration, silently pleading for the release I’m so close to tasting.

Ethan also kept emitting deep roars in my ear, 'Damn... I'm going to cum... !!!' His impact became more intense and our bodies kept making slapping sounds.

"Please!! Ethan!!"


As the strongest female warrior in my pack, I was betrayed by those I trusted most, my sister and my best friend. I was drugged, raped, and banished from my family and my pack. I lost my wolf, my honor, and became an outcast—carrying a child I never asked for.

Six years of hard-won survival turned me into a professional fighter, fueled by rage and grief. A summons arrives from the formidable Alpha heir, Ethan, asking me to return as a wolfless combat instructor for the very pack that once banished me.

I thought I could ignore their whispers and stares, but when I see Ethan's emerald-green eyes—the same as my son’s—my world tilts.
Game of Destiny

Game of Destiny

165.6k Views · Ongoing · Dripping Creativity
Amie's wolf hasn't shown herself. But who cares? She has a good pack, best friends and a family who loves her. Everyone, including the Alpha, is telling her she is perfect just the way she is. That is until she finds her mate and he rejects her. Heartbroken Amie flees from everything and start over. No more werewolves, no more packs.

When Finlay finds her, she is living among humans. He is smitten by the stubborn wolf that refuse to acknowledge his existence. She may not be his mate, but he wants her to be a part of his pack, latent wolf or not.

Amie cant resist the Alpha that comes into her life and drags her back into pack life. Not only does she find herself happier than she has been in a long time, her wolf finally comes to her. Finlay isn't her mate, but he becomes her best friend. Together with the other top wolves in the pack, they work to create the best and strongest pack.

When it's time for the pack games, the event that decides the packs rank for the coming ten year, Amie needs to face her old pack. When she sees the man that rejected her for the first time in ten years, everything she thought she knew is turned around. Amie and Finlay need to adapt to the new reality and find a way forward for their pack. But will the curve ball split them apart?
The Moon's Descendant

The Moon's Descendant

205.4k Views · Completed · Kay Pearson
!! Mature content 18+ !!

“You think I’m going to let my daughter sleep with whoever she wants” he spat. He kicked me in the ribs, sending me flying back across the floor.
“I didn’t” I coughed, gasping for air.
I felt as though my chest had caved in. I thought I was about to vomit when Hank grabbed my hair and lifted my head. CRACK. It was like my eye had exploded inside my skull when he punched me in the face. I landed on the cold concrete and pressed my face onto the floor. He used his foot to roll me over so that I was on my back.
“Look at you, you disgusting c**t” he huffed as he crouched down beside me and wiped the hair from my face. He smiled, a terrifying evil smile.
“I have something extra special for you tonight” he whispered.

Hidden in the dark forest, on Cape Breton Island, lives a small community of Weres. For generations they remained hidden from the humans and maintained a peaceful existence. That is until one small woman joins their pack and throws their world upside down.
Gunner the future Alpha, serving as a knight in shining armour saves the young woman from certain death. Bringing with her a mysterious past and possibilities that many had long since forgotten, Zelena is the light they didn’t know they needed.
With new hope, comes new dangers. A clan of hunters want back what they believe the pack has stolen from them, Zelena.
With her new powers, new friends and new family, they all fight to protect their homeland and the gift that the Moon Goddess has bestowed upon them, the Triple Goddess.
Don’t Poke the Luna

Don’t Poke the Luna

157.1k Views · Ongoing · Elowen Kim
Everyone fears my temper. At just seventeen, I run a successful motorcycle customization shop—my ticket out of a toxic home ruled by an abusive stepmother and a father who turns a blind eye.

Independence is the only thing I’ve ever wanted. But more than one man seems to think he has a say in my future.

My fire has always been my strength... and my curse. I've paid the price for being unyielding. But I won’t stop. Not until I’m free. The real question is—how much more can I take before I break?
Strings of Fate

Strings of Fate

267.5k Views · Completed · Kit Bryan
I'm an ordinary waiter, but I can see people's fate, including Shifters.
Like all children, I was tested for magic when I was only a few days old. Since my specific bloodline is unknown and my magic is unidentifiable, I was marked with a delicate swirling pattern around my upper right arm.

I do have magic, just as the tests showed, but it has never lined up with any known Magic species.

I can't breathe fire like a dragon Shifter, or hex people who piss me off like Witches. I can't make potions like an Alchemist or seduce people like a Succubus. Now I don't mean to be unappreciative of the power I do have, it's interesting and all, but it just really doesn't pack much of a punch and most of the time it is just pretty much useless. My special magical skill is the ability to see threads of fate.

Most of life is annoying enough for me, and what never occurred to me is that my mate is a rude, pompous nuisance. He's an Alpha and my friend's twin brother.

“What are you doing? This is my home, you can't just let yourself in!” I try and keep my voice firm but when he turns and fixes me with his golden eyes I shrink back. The look he gives me is imperious and I automatically drop my eyes to the floor as is my habit. Then I force myself to look back up again. He doesn't notice me looking up because he's already looked away from me. He's being rude, I refuse to show that he's scaring me, even though he most definitely is. He glances around and after realising that the only place to sit is the little table with its two chairs he points to it.

“Sit.” he orders. I glare at him. Who is he to order me around like this? How can someone this obnoxious possibly be my soul mate? Maybe I'm still asleep. I pinch my arm and my eyes water a little from the sting of pain.