~Authors Note ~ Content Warning~
This book contains elements of abuse of a physical, s****l, and mental nature. I try to be as sensitive as possible when writing about these subjects but more rimes than not I'm pulling from my own experiences as a survivor of all the above.
This book also contains very explicit s****l scenes containing kink, b**m, and group s*x.
Character Explanation: Our main character is going to be very weak and immature at the beginning of this book. We will see instances where she could defend herself but doesn't. I assure you all this is necessary and you will see her mature and strengthen into a strong female lead throughout the book. The horrible things she endures and experiences are necessary to build the person she becomes.
If you're still here please enjoy and leave comments because I love constructive criticism.
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Have you ever read one of those werewolf fantasy best-sellers?
The one where the girl is suffering but meets her destined mate and he takes her away to his pack. Then he loves her, looks after her, makes all her problems go away, gives her mind-blowing orgasms, and would annihilate anyone who threatened her.
He wouldn't think twice about dying for her. And they live happily ever after.
Yeah?
Me too!
Way too many of them.
I hate to burst your bubble but this isn't going to be one of those supernatural romances.
This is almost as dark as they come, so if you are easily triggered I caution you to turn away now.
My name you ask?
Not that it matters but my name is Aubrette Shayleigh Starvos. Bre for short.
I am the world's only Gemini Faerie on the run in a Alakai City ran by dark fae, and pure evil, all by myself.
Ever since I had found out that I was mates to three of the most evil fae in the city I had refused to stop running, scared of what would happen if they caught me.
My story isn't a beautiful romance. It's full of tragedy, heart ache, and trauma.
My mates aren't the heroes you read about in those books, and our story isn't like those that you have read, it's not like my parents infamous love story told to me nightly as I grew up...
I guess for you to understand my story we have to start from the beginning.
My story begins long ago when the world was still beautiful but was ran by a strict code of conduct.
1. Species must never mate with any species outside of their own.
2. Do Not interact with ANY Dark Faerie
3. Obey Alakai City Laws put in place by Purity Fae Council.
Alakai City was mostly populated of white fae aside from the west end of the city. That is were all dark fae were cast out to. They weren't allowed within the city after dark and only in certain places during the day.
Their evil had to be contained. Night time under the watchful eyes of the moon is when dark fae hunted. Lycans, vampires, and demons all came out in droves to find an unsuspecting victim to feed from.
It was during this time that my father met my mother.
It all began 50 years ago...
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*********Flashback*********
*****50 Years Earlier*******
(OLETTE POV)
"UGH! Why must I stay locked up in this dreadful palace? I want to go out and hunt like all dark fae do, mother!" I groaned, making my mother spin around anger crossing her face.
"I have told you Olette, you are not ready. You just turned eighteen. You are to run this estate once we have gone, we can't risk losing you." my mother explained for the upteenth time.
"So what? All my feeders are going to be served to me on a silver platter my entire life. No! I refuse to live this way. You are forcing me to smother my natural instinct." I whined.
I saw my father smiling out of the corner of my eye. I had always been able to get my way with my father. I was the only soft spot my father had in his body. To everyone else he was an evil man, but to me he is just daddy.
"Daddy, please!" I moaned giving him my best puppy dog eyes.
"Lina, let the girl go hunting tonight. I'll send Priva along. She won't allow anything to happen to her." My father told my mother.
She rolled her eyes at him, "you always allow her to do this Alexei. Fine, but if anything happens to her it will be on you." My mother huffed and sashayed away with her hips swinging as she threw her red leather coat over her shoulders.
My mother is feared by many but so many more were jealous of her. All dark fae women wanted to be here. They wanted her lavish mansion, droves of clothing, cars, and jewelry, but most of all they wanted her power and her magic.
"Go fetch Priva, Olette. Take her with you and don't leave her sight. And please stay safe. If you so much as get a scratch your mother may skin me alive." my father smiled and bent down to kiss my forehead.
I began to skip away giddy about getting my way, but was stopped by my father calling to me,
"Oh and Olette," I stopped and turned to face him
"Make your poppa proud, ay?" he grinned.
I smiled widely back at him, "of course, after all I was trained by the best." I bragged.
My father had been training me since I could walk. He had taught me how to hunt, stalk, and attack my prey. Then,hb when I received a portion of my magic at thirteen he taught me to incorporate it to make hunting even easier. Ever since then I had been itching to go on their outings, but had been refused and had been eating from feeders.
Feeders are humans and white fae who love to have their blood drank by a dark fae. It gives them a euphoric feeling and to some they become aroused and recieve s****l pleasure from it. After the first time they can become addicted and they usually spiral after, begging dark fae to drink from them until we finally drain them dry and their no longer any use to us.
I know my parents wanted me to take Priva along with me, but I didn't need her. What they didn't know wouldn't hurt them.
I hurried up stairs and pulled on my black leather pants, my black long sleeve shirt, black leather jackets, and combat boots. I placed my hair in a high pony tail and pulled on my leather fingerless gloves.
I looked in the mirror surveying my ensemble. I looked bad ass. Only one thing was missing. I grabbed my red lip stick from my vanity and ran it across my lips. My red hair and blue eyes made me look to young an innocent. I wanted to look like the woman I was meant to be.
I felt a sting in my wrist from the top of the glove and remembered the marking I received three days before on my 18th birthday. I pulled up my sleeve and gazed at it.
"Thayer!" I whispered as I ran my fingers over the letters.
Would I ever find him? Or would I be forced to marry a mate chosen by my mother and father?
My heart dropped at the thought. I had always dreamed of finding my fated. What girl didn't?
Finally, I was ready. I pulled down my sleeve covering my marking and head out the back way so my parents wouldn't see me without Petra.
My plan was to go into the city. I knew it was forbidden but I didn't care. I wanted to feed from a pure white fae.
I snuck around to the edge of the border and poked my head out of the bushes searching for any patrols that may be in the area. The coast was clear. I jumped up and ran for it. I ran straight across the border into the shadows of the skyscrapers in Alakai City.
I walked the streets of the city and gazed at everything surrounding me. All the neon signs and store front displays were absolutely beautiful. I had never been allowed to come here before.
I was passing any ally way when I noticed a figure standing in the darkness. I was entering one of the suburbs on the south end of the city.
As I crept closer I noticed that the person was a young man and he was a white fae, JACKPOT!
Though I couldn't see his face clearly I could tell by his movements and his voice. His magic was strong and he obviously had other abilities. I could feel them radiating from him. He was perfect.
He was obviously wearing headphones and oblivious to the fact that he had company.
I stalked toward him with my cat like gracefulness. My fangs were already extended as my instincts began to take over.
The man was taking out the trash and the bag had busted. He was busy picking up the remnants of his garbage. Luckily it was only paper and such, otherwise I may have had to pick another. I wasn't interested in someone who stank of mold and rotten food.
I drew closer to him until I was directly behind him. Just as I was about to pounce he turned around.
Our eyes locked and we both froze. It was as if time stopped all around us. There was only us in the world.
"Mate?" he gasped as if he was unsure. Unable to speak I nodded confirming to him that we were.
"But.. But you're a dark fae!" he stammered and again I nodded.
He shook his head but then done something I never expected. While I waited to hear his words of rejection I closed my eyes. But they never came. Instead his soft full lips pressed against mine making me gasp and my lips part. This gave him access to enter my mouth with his tongue. My eyes widened. I had never kissed anyone before, but the things he was doing to me was making a burning heat pool deep down inside me.
When he pulled away I almost whimpered. He looked around cautiously before taking my hand and pulling me inside his house.
"My parents are away on business." he assured me.
Thayer and I spent the next few hours talking and kissing. He told me of his life. I found out that his parents resided on the purity fae council.
Knowing who our parents were we knew it would be almost impossible for us to be together, but we refused to deny our bond.
That night we marked each other and we made love for the first time.
For months later I snuck out and seen him. His parents were away often and it gave us somewhere to be alone together. It wasn't until my parents began pressuring me to marry the dragon prince Alejandro that we knew we had to find a way to be together for good.
We researched and researched until at least we found an old law. One that stated that a dark fae could renounce their dark magic to become part of the light. For him I was willing to do whatever I had to.
I packed my things when the time was right and I left my home knowing I would never be able to look back. I went before the council and I renounced my dark magic. My dark magic turned to light, but it was complete agony when my bond severed to my dark side. I felt as if a peace of my soul had been torn and a black void was left in its place.
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*********Present*********
(AUBRETTE POV)
My parents told me often of their love story. They used it as a , "if you believe in something enough, you can make it happen," teaching moment. But, I loved listening. To me there was no more beautiful story.
I remember the way my parents looked at each other, and the love they shared. They made me wonder what my mate would be like. *sigh...
Nothing that magical can last forever.
My father Thayer Starvos, was a white fairie. He met my mother Olette Helios a dark fairie when they were very young.
Too young to know better they refused to let anything stop them from being together. They were too young to see anything other than the fact they loved each other. 2 worlds never meant to intertwine had clashed to form the exquisite love they had for each other.
My father, with tolerance, love, and compassion, had so to speak, tamed my mother. After giving up her dark side she struggled but he helped her become one of the most powerful white fae warriors that had ever lived.
Though I could see in my mother's eyes something was missing. She missed her home, and her parents. She spoke of my grandfather often and I would hear my parents fight about it on occasion. My mother longed to visit home, but my father forbid her. He was afraid they wouldn't allow her to return.
There love created me, A Gemini Faerie. The only one of my kind. Made up of evil, good, light and dark.
The perfect balance.
A blessing and a curse!!
My parents had thought that when they had children they would be white faerie's but somewhere inside my mother, deep inside her soul , her dark side still resided and had crept into my DNA.
Fae never come into their full power until their 18th birthday. However, I have always had mine. Though I was forbidden to use it, especially around anyone other than my parents.
I never questioned them. I knew they would tell me if and when I needed to know. I trusted my parents completely, and boy was I kicking myself in the ass for that one.
Momma used to say I have the most potent power in the world, and I am capable of sharing my ability with my mate, should I choose to do so, but only if they are my fated mate. It wouldn't work with a chosen mate because we don't share part of our soul. A fated mate is a mate chosen for you by the Moon Goddess.
Not everyone has or meets their fated mate so they choose to mark someone they choose as their mate. The bond is still there, the mind link as well, but you don't share a part of your soul with a chosen as you do with a fated. You don't imprint on each other.
My parents constantly cautioned me about using my powers.
"Be sure to always hold back!"My father would say. "Never let them know Aubrette." My mother would warn.
And so I became fearful, and no longer trusted myself or magic. Now, during the most dangerous time known to our species, I have no clue how to harness my power to its fullest capabilities.
I only know the basics which were taught to me by my father after I turned 13 to keep my curiosity at bay. When you are 13 you get a taste of your power, so since another fae, my age was able to use magic, my parents finally agreed to show me the basics after years of begging.
I had been so excited until every time I would begin to cast my father would scream "Hold back Bre."
After hearing it hundreds of times I became frustrated and stopped asking for lessons.
My parents kept me hidden, away from the world, every chance that they got. I was homeschooled and had limited friends. Only one actually, my mother and father's best friend's daughter Ninette or as we called her Nin. I wasn't allowed to go to public events like concerts, or even the park. The grocery store was off limits. My backyard had been my haven. My parents made sure I had everything I could ever want, aside from freedom of course. I remember laying in my hammock staring at the stars wishing I was anyone but myself.