********Trigger Warning*********
Sexual and Domestic Assault
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I turned on Nikolai ready to reject him to when Brecclan grabbed my arm and whirled me back around facing him. He stood an inch from my face as his eyes looked like they were on fire and I could see my reflection in the red burning orbs.
"I Brecclan Drago Princ of the Dragon Fae, do not accept your Aubrette Shayleigh Starvos' rejection. You will be mine for as long as I see fit."
Brecclan turned to Luca still seething as if he expected him to say something
Luca looked stunned and in pain but stayed quiet until Brecclan screamed,
" Say it Luca." Luca looked as if he had seen a ghost. I watched Luca gulp and his Adams apple bobbed up and down and finally he looked me in the eye, "I Luca Othanos do not accept your Aubrette Shayleigh Starvos' rejection." Luca's voice was calm but laced with pain.
"You both f*****g disgust me. I hate you!" I screamed at both of them and turned on my heel running down the corridor to my room the only place in this god forsaken palace I had that felt even remotely safe.
"You f*****g imbeciles. I can't believe you. Come near her again and I'll kill you myself. She almost rejected me. This is on you and I wouldn't blame her if she wanted nothing to ever do with you again." I heard Nikolai screaming at them as I ran away.
I was shocked that he stood up to them the way he did. That he threatened his mates whom he had marked and completed the bond with over me.
Tears poured down my eyes as I turned stood in the shower washing the blood and grime off my body and out of my hair. I retched feeling the consistency and chunky that clung to my hair.
My eyes felt like sandpaper and as if they were heavy. I had cried so much and I was just emotionally exhausted.
After drying off and brushing out my hair I pulled on a cami and shorts pajama set and crawled on the bed.
At first I had loved this bed but now my loneliness made it seem way to big.
I laid down and curled up into a ball hugging on of them pillows to my chest as the events of the last year crashed into me like titanic did the iceberg. I had lost everyone I loved, the world had went to s**t, and I was mated to three men who hated me and I them.
How did things go from being great or as great as they ever had been for me, to this?
Blip appeared in the room and he seen me crying. He came over to me making a weird purring sound and rubbed his head on my leg my arm wanting to comfort me.
"Hey dude. I've missed you. Were have you been?" I asked as if he would answer.
I was pathetic. The only friend I had in the world was a Phoenix one of the worlds top predators.
A knock at the door made my heart race and I jumped up to a sitting position ready to run in the bathroom and lock the door.
"Aubrette! Can I come in? I promise I mean no harm. I just want to talk and see how your doing." I could hear the pain and worry in Nikolai's voice and to be honest I didn't want to e alone. The f*****g bond made me feel crazy and I needed at least one of them to lessen the loneliness. So I chose the less evil of the three.
"Come in." my voice stuttered from crying so much.
Nikolai walked in and I looked up at him. "You shouldn't be here. Your only going to make them do even more evil things to me. They don't want me around you. Brecclan warned me to keep my distance." I mumbled and heard Nikolai growl.
Before I could blink he was sitting on the bed with me. His hand hovered over me for a moment before he placed it on my cheek.
Tingles spread down my face making me lean into his touch involuntarily. I wanted to be held so badly. It had been so long since a human had wrapped their arms around me and held me close. .
"Will your pet eat my eyeballs if I hold you, Aubrette?, Niko eyed Blip and I giggled. An evil powerful fae was frightened by a little bird. "He won't hurt anyone who doesn't hurt me." I told him and he smiled scooting across the bed and pulling me into his arms.
"I'm so sorry they sat and watched those disgusting pigs do that to you. When I walked in and saw what was going on I saw red." his breath fanned across my neck and I snuggled into his touch as my body relaxed.
Niko laid down and patted his chest and I hesitate but eventually gave in and snuggled into him
Niko threw the cover over us and clapped his hands making the light go out.
I laughed "Wow, I've never see such a thing. I could feel Niko laugh as his chest shook, "It was Luca's doing. He has them in our room as well." He told me.
"You all share a room?" I asked curious.
"We do. The mate bond refuses to let us relax and sleep well without our mates once we have marked them. Sometimes it can be a pain though. Like times like these. I'd rather it be sleeping with them at the moment." he exhaled and I peeked up at him.
"You can sleep in here with me, until your ready to go back. I don't mind." I hated the way my voice sounded needy to but fact was that being this close had made the bond grow stronger and it was nice having it placated if only while I slept.
"I woul be honored if I could stay here with you, Aubrette." he hugged me to him and began petting my head.
We laid quietly for a while. I closed my eyes and relished the tingles that relaxed me as I lay on Niko. I listened to his heart beating and his breathing. He was warm to the touch and felt like a heating pad.
"Niko?" I broke the silence.
"Hmm?"
"Why didn't the rejection breaker bond?" I asked him wondering how I'd ever get away from them
"I'm sure you've heard Aubrette that bonds aren't breakable. You can lessen the need for each other if and only if both parties reject each other, but the bond will always remain and try to pull you back together. Unless one of you die that is." he explained to me.
"Do you miss them? I mean does the bond want you to go to them?" I asked.
"It does but I also have freewill and I don't want to be near them at the moment. What they done especially because it was to our mate would be unforgivable if not for the bond."
"Where is your room at?" I asked him
"On the other side of that door." he pointed to the door I hadn't been able to open in the bathroom.
"I built this room for you. And for us to share with you once you were comfortable and we had marked each other." he whispered.
I sat quietly feeling guilt run through me. Nikolai had made this room for me. He had bought all these things for me to make me feel at home and I had ran from them. No wonder they were angry with me, but it still didn't excuse the lengths they went to to hurt me.
"Goodnight Nikolai!_ I whispered before closing my eyes.
"Goodnight Aubrette!"
***************The Next Morning*************
I awoke and tingles were vibrating through my entire body. Thinking it was Nikolai I curled into his body and breathed in his scent.
My eyes pipped open!
This wasn't Nikolai. Jerking back my eyes popped open to find Luca starring back at me. The look in his eyes was like nothing I've ever seen before.
Niko was no longer there. He was running purely on instinct. His fangs peeked out from beneath his bottom lip.
"Luca, what are you doing in here?' I calmly stated as my heart began to race and I knew he could hear every beat of it.
Suddenly, a pain unlike nothing I've ever felt wrecked my back and abdomen. When I moved my legs and grabbed my lower stomach I felt a sticky wetness.
"f**k!" I snapped finally understanding what had drew Luca to my room and be in the state he was.
I was shedding. I hadn't taken my concoction in a while ane being so close to Nikolai all night had brought it on.
Luca was a vampiric fae. He lusted for blood. Especially mine, his mate. A vampire's mate's blood is to them like a heroin is to an addict. They craved it. This is why after marking this mate they often fed from them. It wasn't painful. Exactly the opposite. I had read that it was like all your nerve endings were alive and you could feel everything your mate was feeling. Though it could be dangerous. If your mate didn't have full control of their bloodlust they could drain you before you even realize what happened.
I turned my head to him and watched in utter fear as black veins spread from his eyes and his lips curled back from his fangs. His eyes went from crimson red to black. Before I could blink he was on top of me and had me pinned to the bed. "Please don't hurt me. I'm sorry." I pleaded. His eye flashed and went from red back to black as if he was fighting his instincts.
He grabbed a fistful of my hair and jerked my head back, the pain causing tears to form in my eyes. I searched the room looking for Blip but he was nowhere to be found. I should have known. If he had been he would have already attacked, Luca.
A snarl ripped from his chest as his fangs scrape across the tender skin of my neck.
"No please don't!" I cried out.
I felt his fangs pierce my skin. He sunk them in deeper and I hissed at the roughness of his bite.
My body came alive as he took my blood from me. It felt as if every part of me was orgasmic. I moaned and grabbed his hair urging him to drink. My moans filled the air as juices flowed down my thighs soaking my panties. I lifted my hips feeling the bulge in Lucas's pants and panting as the friction caused my orgasm to flow through me.
"Yes! More please!" I begged as my body hummed with pleasure.
Luca reaches between us ripping my button open on my jeans and ripping them off my hips and down my legs kicking them off my feet. He pushed down his jogging pants freeing his c**k and slipped it between my throbbing p***y lips.
"Oh God yes." I gasped as his c**k slipped over my swollen c**t.
"f**k me please!" I begged him.
He growled in his chest as his mouth clung to my neck. He lifted my hips and positioned himself at my entrance. I grabbed his hips ready to pull him into me when he was ripped off the top of me.
I gasped as Luca was ripped away from me. I jumped up as I came back to my senses and realized what had just happened.
Nikolai had Luca pinned against the wall. He was growling and lunging toward me. My eyes went to his jogging pants and widened as I seen they were coated in blood. I looked down at my exposed body. Blood flowed down my legs as I stared at it unable to move.
"Get her in the shower she is shedding." Nikolai screamed at Brecclan, but it sounded as if they were far away. Like I was in a to. do. My head spun from the amount of blood Luca drink from me.
Brecclan picked me up from the bed and carried me to the bathroom locking the door behind us. He sat me down in front of the shower. I watched the crimson liquid flowing down my legs in my trance-like state.
Looking in the mirror I jumped back at my reflection. My tears were not as they should be. They were red.
"This is why you poisoned yourself, isn't it? Brecclan asked as he began turning on the shower.
I was confused. I didn't poison myself. He looked at me waiting for an answer but I didn't have one to give him.
"The dragon's blood and wolves bane we fou d in your blood. We took it when you first got here while you were still out. It's why you got so sick. You took a lethal dose. Where you drinking it to prevent your shedding?" He asked and I nodded.
How could I have been so stupid? I almost killed myself.
Brecclan grabbed my arms and held them up before lifting my shirt over my head. I tried to shield myself with my hands when his arms went around me unclipping my bra.
I was humiliated. I had just been assaulted by my mate. I felt like I had gotten drunk and been taken advantage of while passed out.
It was the same thing.
I had no control once his pheromones entered my bloodstream. I couldn't take my eyes off the two marks on my neck as I looked in the mirror.
Brecclan saw me looking at them and leaned in toward my neck. I instinctively jumped back from him. He growled at me and pulled me back toward him. He ran his tongue over the bite mark and I gasped as I watched the mark close on its own.
"Good thing he didn't go to the bone or he would have forcibly marked you which puts a strain on the bond." Brecclan advised me.