"Faye-""I need to speak first before any of you say a word." I cut Ivan off before he could even say anything. A shaky sigh left my lips when I avoided looking at Ivan and Dawn, noticing that Zavier was needing to be beside me but he knew something was wrong between us.
We"d both been avoiding the conversation but I knew that right at the moment it could wait. I reached for him, pleading him to come sit beside me and protect me if they tried getting closer to me.
In a flash, he was by my side and clutching my hand tightly with a small smile. His arm slipped around my waist as he pressed his lips to my shoulder, letting me know he wasn"t going to move.
"I know that you are my biological parents. I"ve felt tied to this place ever since I walked upon the grounds. Dawn, you treated everyone here as if they were your own child which was I didn"t connect until Ivan told me the truth." I admit. Dawn, giving her mate a sharp look but didn"t say a word.
It was true though, I"ve felt so much stronger here and didn"t have a reason until I figured out who it was my parents were.
It"s honestly a little overwhelming.
"I have a lot of questions. Why I was thrown out at birth? Why you only care now about me? Why Dawn kept this information from me if she already went through my memories? How did you expect me to feel? Was I such a bad child? Were you afraid of my power? Were you afraid that I"d run the coven into a pit of fire? Were you afraid that Seria would feel a certain way towards me being her sister? I don"t understand why I was abandoned and Seria and Nexus weren"t. What made me so different?" I ask heartbroken as Zavier held onto me tighter, his head pressing into my shoulder and not saying a word since I was staring at my biological with tears in my eyes,
Why...
Why was I thrown out like a piece of trash?
Was I a ugly kid or something?
Maybe I caused to much trouble?
Daniel sat beside me as well, his eyes cast down but you could see the fury in his eyes as I spoke. I knew my words had hurt him since he told me prior to the conversation that he wouldn"t let me out of his sight until he was satisfied that I was able to fend off them.
h.e.l.l.
It"s not like I wanted to be alone right at the moment.
Both, Ivan and Dawn, looked very uncomfortable under my stare as they share a quick look and Dawn turned her attention back to me.
"When I was sixteen, I was diagnosed infertile, Faye." She confesses causing the two men to snap their attention to the woman who was staring at me intently. "It was the around the same time I met Ivan and I was devastated. I"d always dreamt for a family and my sister had two children with her mate. Seria and Nexus." She informs me as my breath caught in my throat.
She was infertile and had me still?!
Seria and Nexus weren"t her children!
What the f.u.c.k?!
"My sister..." She stopped for a moment, her eyes glossing over at the memory before continuing. "My s-sister and her mate were involved in an accident years ago. See my sister and I were twins which is why many mistake Seria as my daughter. I was twenty-six when this all happened and we were told of the news along with your conception. As you know, we were so shocked at the news but devastated that my sister pa.s.sed away to early. Ivan and I d-decided to take them in and call them our own-n." Her voice cracked several times she spoke, the tears in her eyes giving away at her misery while Ivan came up from behind her and grasped her in a tight hug.
"Do they know or remember anything?" I ask quietly, softly pushing aside Zavier since his grip was hurting my injury.
"Seria does a little bit, but neither of them were in the accident. She just remembers the transition and the funeral. Nexus doesn"t remember anything at all since he was only two years old and she was five years old." Ivan answered me this time as Dawn pushed him away and collected herself as best as she could.
"When you were born, everything seemed to brighten again. Those nine months were the darkest the coven ever went through but once you came to this world, it was as if everything started living again. Ivan was focused on repairing the coven once again and I was watching the three children including you. It was once again a happy coven. Everything in the past is put in the past." She told me, her face lighting up with the memory of my birth but I felt that there was something else.
The answer to a question I"ve always had.
"Then what happened?" I ask in a small voice, unsure if I even wanted to know.
"It was one night, maybe a year after you were born that it all fell apart again." Dawn knelt in front of me, grasping my hands tightly with her cold ones. "One night we were sleeping and woke up to hear Seria yelling and several loud bangs. We rushed to find that Seria was hurt and that a man was jumping from a window with you cradled against him. Ivan tried his hardest to go after that man, but he was a vampire and there was no way of him catching up you. Seria was hurt badly since you, Nexus and Seria shared the same room. Nexus was cowering in the closet, afraid." Her voice broke as she looked away and wiped at her face.
I felt horrible for accusing them and thinking of them so horribly. All of the thoughts that the league pushed into my mind were truly wrong and I should have known since they were the bad guys after all.
"We searched for you for days that slowly turned into weeks, months, then years. We continued trying to search for you. Growing tired and losing hope that we"d never find you again. Then a girl came on our lands and Seria was weary enough to tell Ivan and me, telling us that she sensed a strong magical presence from her just like our lost child and had the exact same name." The smile was back on Dawn"s face, her eyes softening at the sight of me.
My hands held onto hers tightly, not wanting her to feel any more pain but I encouraged her to continue. Needing to hear her words.
"Of course Seria was stubborn and didn"t trust anyone. Plus I knew you"d come from the league so I sent you off. I thought if we could figure out what your real intentions were it"d help us since it"d been nearly twenty-five years since we saw our baby girl. I"d sent Seria and Wyn to follow you and your mate only to witness several a.s.sa.s.sins attacking you and claiming that you were only looking for your biological parents. I didn"t know you were our daughter at first. I can look through your memories to a certain extent. I can"t go all the way back to your first couple years of life." She tells me with such a softness that it hurt to listen to her anymore.
I knew that I was crying but I refused to make a move, afraid that it would send me into a spiral of pain.
"Trust me, Faye. I never stopped looking for you. Every day of my life I searched and searched until you came upon the coven on your own. When you were fighting the a.s.sa.s.sins I was close to stepping in but Seria told me that if you were truly my child you"d have all the strength from the coven to fight. And you did. I"m so- so happy you are b-back." Her voice broke at the end making my shoulders shake with emotion. Before anyone realized what happened, I tackled her into a tight hug and held onto her.
She clutched onto me just as tightly as Ivan rushed to our sides and grasped us in a large hug. The three of us holding each other tightly. Our family finally complete again making me dig my face into Dawn"s shoulder.
〰 Zavier 〰
Seeing my mate be reunited with her family warmed my insides as I motioned for my own father to leave the three on their own for now. I felt a little lonely without being close to my own family made me clasp my father"s shoulder.
"It"s good to see you old man." I grinned over at him, his gruff exterior broken down as he nodded and patted my back as well.
"Best to find your mother. She"s probably gossiping about me and whatnot." He says with a soft laugh that surprised me. I felt the need to be around Faye but she needed a few moments with her parents to recover all the lost time.
I also felt the need to be around my parents as well.
I haven"t seen them in a while and with Faye being reunited with her parents, I needed to be close to them as well.
Dad and I went downstairs and heard my mother"s loud and obnoxious laugh along with other women. All four of them were cracking up with loud hoots of laughter making me smile. My father didn"t look as pleased but kept the smile while we walked over to the women.
"Oh, there he is! Honey, I was just telling them about that time at the waterpark and those-" His groan cut her off, the ladies laughing once again when he wrapped his arms around her waist and pressed a kiss to her cheek.
"Must you tell them about that? I"m already tired, woman." He questions with a heartfelt smile as she patted his arm.
"Oh hush up. I"ve made friends so suck it up, honey." She says with a smile while making him sit beside her with the other ladies. I leaned against the counter, content with watching all of them socialize as my mind drifted to Faye and her dilemma.
She finally had a family.
Not that she wasn"t apart of our but I always knew she wanted to find her blood family and be with them once again. Whether they abandoned her or not.
The look on her face when Dawn explained what happened and how everything came together broke her heart. She looked so vulnerable and I knew she wasn"t trying to hide it since she freely cried to her mother.
My father told had told me, Faye considered him as her father no matter and I was happy that they both got along. I knew Ajax had told them something that changed my mother"s mind since she wasn"t so repulsed at the idea of us being together.
I never got the chance to speak with my father, but he clearly has known for a while that Faye and Xenon were the same person but didn"t say a word to me. It was clear that my mother didn"t know but he did.
Maybe that was why he brought Faye back to me after she was poisoned with the drug that induced her into heat. It made sense since I was told that she protected him, hence how she was burned and not because she was tortured.
Good thing I was able to question the kid before we left.
He told me that she protected him but that was all he told me other than that my father had carried her the whole way home.
I wasn"t sure what changed my father"s mind about her, but whatever it was I felt a little left out since he was my father and she was my mate. It seems like I"ve been left out quite a bit these last few years.
Apparently, Alex knew that Xenon and Faye were the same person even before Faye disappeared for two years. Alex had told me everything once she got here, telling me that Faye cursed her in order to keep her ident.i.ty and that it broke once I found out.
I understood why she cursed Alex, but she cursed someone.
I wasn"t happy that she cursed a family friend that I"ve known all my life.
When she was done talking to her parents, we were going to have a conversation about everything. I know we"ve been putting it off since Harold"s gotten here, but my father has taught the man a few lessons ever since finding out who he was.
I was more than happy to watch my father beat him with an inch of life left.
Though, I noticed that Faye was very tense around me and she had a lot on her mind about our relationship as well. All I knew was that our conversation could turn for the worse if I didn"t say the right words.
She was already emotional with finding her parents, I didn"t want to set her off anymore.
I sighed, raking a hand down my face and wishing that Faye and I were on good terms. Though it felt like we"ve never been on good terms, it"s as if one or the other has been battling one another.
But after we spoke with one another about everything.
I was sure that I"d get everything I"ve ever wanted and will make her happy with everything I can give her.
With a smile tainting my lips, I turned into the kitchen and reached into the cabinets. I wanted to make her something to eat so she could have something before we spoke to one another. All my bones aching for her to be against me once again.
Nasty thoughts of her sprang into my mind, reminding me that I haven"t given her a mating mark or the necklace she made for us. The red pendant on my neck as her green one burned my pocket.
I tried to not think much about it while pulling a pot on the stove and boiling some water.
〰〰〰
"What are you doing down here?" A small voice questions me when I pushed off the table and saw Faye staring down at me. Her gorgeous grey eyes watching me concerningly, her hands resting on mine that was on the table.
"I made you food but I didn"t want to leave alone for too long so I can up here and sat down to wait for you. Are you hungry? We can-"
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"I don"t have an appet.i.te..." She continued staring down at me, biting her bottom lip for a moment to think. "Could we... Could we speak?" She asks me with a small tremble while I stood up and nodded.
"Yeah. Come on. I"ll bring you to my room." I grabbed her hand and pulled her down the hallway, the soft hum of sparks against our joint hands made me close my eyes. It"s been a while since I felt her skin on mine and I wasn"t sure if she noticed that our skin p.r.i.c.kled every time we touched.
I know I notice every time since I always grow needy of her attention on me.
It amazes me that we are mates and have held off the mating rite out for so long. May even be the longest pair of mates to hold off the mating rite.
The more I thought about it, the more I seemed to grow aroused.
But it wasn"t the time to be aroused.
We had to speak about everything.
After going down another hallway, I pressed my door open and let her walk in first as I followed in behind her. She whispered something under her breath when a spell left her hands and enveloped the room.
"It"s a sound barrier. I don"t want to wake people around us if we get too loud." She told me with a serious but tired look as I nodded and clasped my hands behind my back. Unsure what to even say.
We stood there for several moments, not saying anything but staring at each other. Her grey eyes seemed to stare up at me while my green ones looked down at her. I knew she had so much to say and had no idea how to start much like me.
I sighed and reached into my pocket while motioning her over to me. She was quick to come over to me, her eyes watching my every movement, making it really hard to think straight.
"Turn around," I said softly as she turned around. My hand swept her hair over her shoulder while I held the pendant in my hands. I placed the necklace around her neck and clasped it behind but didn"t remove my hands.
"Our pendants." She whispered, shocked to feel hers since it"s been in my hands for a while. Probably not even noticing that it was gone up until this moment.
"Mhmm. I"ve held onto yours for a while. I kept forgetting I had yours on me." I admit, leaning down and pressing my lips against the soft skin on her neck. Her body trembled at the touch but her mind snapped back into focus when she stepped away and stared at me.
"Stop distracting me." She warns surprising me at the coldness in her voice. "We"ve got to talk."