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“That was your daughter wasn’t it, my mate, the mate I’m to share with three others.”
“Yes, Dagan, the missing princess, my daughter, your mate.”
I put my head down into my hands and lean forward on the bed. “I fucked up, I should have realized she wasn’t playing a game, I should have at least stayed and listened to what you had to say.”
The queen puts her hand over mine, “Dagan, my boy, it wouldn’t have changed anything. Your beast would have taken over instead and that would have been more damaging. It was best this way.” I flinch, if my beast took over while claiming my mate, the princess would hate me even more.
“How will she ever forgive me?” I took her against her will, even though she enjoyed every second of my cock inside her, until she realized what happened.
“It will take time Dagan, but between myself, my mates, and Ryder we’ll help her, and it wouldn’t hurt for you to try and gain her favour.” With that she leaves, leaving me to my inner thoughts, battling my beast.
If my beast unleashed during the mating, my mate might not have survived it. My beast only unleashes during battle, never during sex. But the Oracle was right, looking back, my beast was right under the surface the entire time. Demanding to be let out.
She didn’t feel it, my mate, of course not. It was too early for her, of course she wouldn’t have felt the bond. I notice on the dresser that the Oracle left something behind, a piece of a paper. Going closer it’s actually a photo, of my mate. Stunning blue hair and purple eyes. The eyes call to me, and my beast wants out.
I grab the food try on the table that was left for me and finally start eating, it’s only when I start yawning and my vision goes blurry that I realize I’ve been drugged. Thankfully I’m sitting on the end of my bed and fall back, falling into a deep sleep.
Chapter 9
Raven
I wake up in a strange bed, how the hell did I get here? I sit up, feeling eyes on me and search the room. Three strange men stand there, arms crossed as if they are ready for battle. Then I remember how I got here, that asshole that raped me pinched a nerve in my neck and I passed out. But why bring me here.
“Who are you?” I demand, trying to get up from all these damn covers blocking me in.
“Calm down my sweet, we’re your fathers’. We won’t harm you, we’re here to make sure you’re safe.”
I flop back down on my bed, what the hell? “My life is a mess, I had a good thing going, and now I’m thrown into this madness, and what do you mean you’re all my fathers’?” I sit back up, and glare at them. I remember the family I had, that I thought I had, the family I lost.
“My family is dead, as I’m sure you know, so what makes you think I want to make a new family.”
One of my so-called father’s looks ashamed and looks down to his boots. “The attack on your foster family wasn’t supposed to happen, it’s something not even the Queen saw coming.”
Foster family, that puts a knife in my gut, they were my parents, my family, not foster anything. “And my brother? Was Steven yours too?” My voice is heavy, and tears threaten to fall.
“We wish we had more children, but you were our only one, and will be our only. Our death is coming. But to answer your question, no, Steven wasn’t your birth brother.” The sourly looking ‘father’ replies to me.
“Get out.” I demand of them.
A knock comes at the door and the three men turn towards it. Seconds later my so-called mother enters the room. “Loves, you may leave now, I need time with Raven.” They each kiss her goodbye, although I’m sure they are standing guard outside the door.
I glare are her, not wanting to talk with her at all. “I want to go home.”
“My girl. This is your home. Now we have lots to discuss, where would you like to start?”
Oh she’s giving me a choice now huh? “How about at the beginning, that’s always the best place, you know since you gave me away and all.”
She flinches as if I slapped her. “I didn’t give you away willingly, your fathers and I fought day and night about it for months, but in the end, we had no choice. But before we get into that, lets start with your birth.”
“What about it, I was born, you sent me away, lets just get this over with so I can go home, I’m sure Ravenna is worried about me.” On the other hand, I just realized that she wasn’t home this evening, she’s never not home, with all the noise going on you’d think she’d have come out and helped me at the very least. I’ll have to ask her about it later.
“There is more to it than that. At your birth, your Culling Veil was different than ever seen, we knew then that you’d be more powerful than any of us combined. I had a vision, of your mates, you as you are now, and the great war that is coming. Your cull was a sheen pink, most just look like extra skin, so your fathers and I knew what to do. Instead of hiding it as all witches do, we ate it. You my dear are unkillable.”
“Um, that sounds gross, but why eat it? And what do you mean unkillable.” I feel myself relaxing as she finally sits next to me on the bed, as if telling me a bedtime story.
“By having the Queen, or in this case, the Oracle, which is myself, eat the veil of a child born to witchery, it means they are immortal, the cull is the only way a witch can die, and without it, well, as I said, unkillable.”
“If that’s the case then why did you give me up.”
