Mated to Evil

Alone and Scared

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Warning~ This chapter contains graphic language of a s****l nature. As well as assault. It may be triggering and inappropriate for some readers.

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I groaned as my cheek throbbed over and over. It felt swollen and maybe even broken. I blinked rapidly trying to clear my vision. I cupped my cheek and hissed when it throbbed even more and instantly pulled my hand away. "Oh, you're finally awake." I heard a voice somewhere in the room exclaim.

I groaned trying to sit up. It felt as if my cheekbone was protruding out as I could see the skin beneath my eye swollen. I looked around the room with my vision blurred in the eye where I was hit. Sumba was standing at the water basin filling a clear bag with ice. She looked at me and pity flashed through her eyes as she made her way over to the bed.

I leaned against the headboard and rubbed my aching wrist that I saw had angry red marks around them from the ripe Parker had tied the together with. "Mother please!" Parker's voice sounded from the doorway and I scurried back away from Sumba into the corner of the bed as my body shook with fear. She looked angrily over her shoulder, "Parker to bed now! We will discuss this tomorrow you stupid boy. You're going to get yourself killed." she growled at him. "She started it. She spits on me!" he whined.

Sumba jumped up from the bed and walked angrily to the door shutting it in his face. When she turned back around she looked at me and smiled. "Now that he's gone let's chat shall we?" she asked, sitting on the edge of the bed and handing me the ice lack.

With shaking hands I took the I've from her and gently placed it against my cheekbone, hissing when the slightest movement shot pain down my face. Sumba shook her head, "That boy will never learn. He's so much like his father. I've told him and told him but he refuses to listen. Stubborn-headed mule." she rambles as he gazes I fixed on my swollen cheek.

"I hope you will forgive Parker. He doesn't understand right from wrong. He only knows what he saw from his father who was an evil bastard with a good right hook." she looks sadly at me. Wait! She is Parker and Silva's mother? I thought as I watched her curiously. Still huddled in the corner refusing to go near her. "I just wanted to say that I know they will come for you. They are already combing these caves like mad men. Though there are hundreds of tunnels and caverns that all run in circles, eventually they will find you, and they will punish my foolish children. I guess I'm just asking for your leniency with them. As much as I know they deserve punishment, I can't bare to see my children killed." she picked at her frail fingers as she spoke. "Silva and Parker do not need your magic. They think they do but, I know they don't. They're not responsible enough for magic that powerful." she looked up at me and my eyes grew wide.

Sumba smiled at me, "Yes child I know what you are but don't worry, your secrets safe with me." she patted my hand. "How?" I gasped. "I know everyone's secrets, even before they do." she simply stated. "I feared I was too late tonight when I heard your calls for help. I thought I would come into this room and find my son dead. Which is why I was confused when I found it was you who was hurt and not him." she looked at me curiously. "The wards. I can't protect myself without my magic." I reminded her.

Sumba looked at me confused but her eyes widened as if she had figured something out, "Do you not know how to harness your powers? Or your elemental gifts?" she asked. "I don't have elemental gifts and your wards block my magic. I can't even feel it anymore." I told her as my lips quivered. "Calm down don't get upset." she patted my leg. "My wards can not block powers such as yours, child. They only suppress it. Though, if you knew how to harness them it wouldn't be hard at all for you to use them. As an elemental who had been gifted with all four elements, you are the strongest species I have ever met. And I have lived for a very long time." she explained to me but I looked at her confused shaking my head. "I don't have any elemental powers. They never came." I told her growing frustrated. "Oh, they're there. You'll see. One day, when you least expect it, you will figure it all out. But I must get to bed. I have to rest these old weary bones of mine. You get some rest as well. No one will bother you here in your room. I've made sure of that." she squeezed my hand and got up from the bed.

As I watched Sumba walk to the door she opened it and began to walk out but stopped and turned around. "I will hold them off as long as I can Aubrette. But please for all our sake. Try to figure it out." she pleaded with me and swiftly turned closing the door behind her.

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I awoke the next morning still tired as I had been up all night trying to feel my magic. I even tried calling on it as if I was begging for it to rise inside of me, to wake from its deep sleep or whoever the hell it was. Try after try I felt nothing. Finally, when I became too exhausted to even sit up I went to sleep.

I heard arguing outside my door as I searched the old dresser for something to wear. I crept over to it and out my set up against it. "Why would you put wards around her room mother? Now I can't even get to her if need be!" Silver growled at Sumba.

So that's what she had meant by saying I was safe in this room! "Why don't you ask your brother? I may let you two by with a lot of things but I refuse to let him force himself on a woman. He doesn't understand things like that. All he knows is that his body desperately needs to feel pleasure." Sumba argued back. "So let him bust a jut and get it over with! What do you care?" Silva growled. "I care because when her mates find out home with her in it, and if by chance he would have gotten his way last night when they found out they would slowly torture your brother in unspeakable ways to make him pay." she stammered as if the words left a bad taste in her mouth. "They aren't going to find her!" Silva argued. "Is that so? Is that why hell bounds have been searching the cave system since you brought her here? Because they damn near found the place last night. You'll see soon enough Silva. I won't argue with you any longer. How leave this girl be while I fetch her breakfast." Sumba scolded Silva and I could hear her footsteps retreating away from the door. "Argh!" Silva cried out, kicking the door and making me jump backward. Then I heard her footsteps as well, retreating from the door.

I relieved myself in the bucket provided to me and then washed up in the sin basin before dressing in some tattered jeans and a baggy blue t-shirt I found tucked in the dresser. I was using my fingers to brush through my unruly hair when a knock sounded at the door. "Hello?" Parker's voice echoed through the door. He went silent for a moment but then started again. "Listen, I know you can hear me in there. You know you're going to have to come out sometime. You can't hide forever, and after you apologize we can get back to what we were doing before my mom interrupted us." his voice sent chills over my body and I backed up until my back hit the corner of the room and I slid down the wall, holding my knees against my chest. "Wouldn't you like that? For me to be inside of you. You smelt so well last night. I wanted to taste you so badly. To feel my c**k twitching inside your sweet little virgin p***y as I filled you with my seed. Hey, maybe we will get lucky enough and we will have a child. Wouldn't that be nice?" he kept on and on through the door as tears streaked down my cheeks. I cried as a baby huddled in that corner knowing he would find a way to get to me. "Parker! What did I tell you?" the sound of Sumba's voice made my body relax. My chest heaved as I tried to control the hiccups from crying so much. "Goodbye, Aubrette! I'll see you soon!" Parker whispered before he could be heard running away.

The doorknob turned and I jumped when it opened only to find Sumba walking in with a large tray of food. She smiled sadly at me. I knew I must have looked so weak and I felt ashamed. She sat the tray on the dresser and I forced myself to stand and walk toward her. "I have brought you breakfast along with some snacks, crossword puzzles, a notepad and paper, and even a few crystals to help with relaxing, healing, and strength." she showed me three different crystals and I took them from her outstretched hand.

My stomach growled as the smell of the food hit my nose and Sumba smiled. "Well then, I guess I'll leave you to it. I'll be back to check on you soon," she assured me and I nodded. She was starting to walk pit of the room, "Hey Sumba!" I stopped her. She loomed at me and smiled, "Yes Child?" she asked. "Thanks for being so nice. I know you don't have to." I told her. "You know my mom always used to say Sumba if you can't treat someone as you would have them treat you then what kind of which does that make you? I guess it always stuck with me." she grinned brightly and I returned her smile. "That's a wonderful quote to live by. Maybe I'll use it." I told her and she winked at me playfully before closing the door. Once again here I was, alone and scared.