Sitting around a huge table, all royals displayed a serious expression on their faces. There was no trace of the playfulness they often showed among themselves and the lively attitude was nowhere to be seen.
There was a dead silence throughout the huge hall which was situated at the center of all realms. It was this small structure that was the very center of all realms which were once fixated together. Now it just floated round all realms and was never at a place for more than hour.
"so, you are saying that the four of you share the same mate?"
Cristopher, the demon king, broke the silence.
"not four, just three."
Xade murmured and all eyes turned to him.
"I am yet to believe all this and haven't been serious of this whole mate thing cause please, many people never even find their mates throughout their lives."
He raised in hands in surrender and justified his words but not without earning a growl from his parents who desperately wished for him to be with Ivy.
"It is not impossible with all the blood running through her veins." The witch king, Ethan spoke glancing at Strider.
"Perhaps we don't know yet since many of our kind don't ever meet or realize who their mates are." Strider took cue.
"And everything is possible." The queen of vampires, Xia spoke up with a smile.
Orien was listening to it all as he stared at his son without blinking even once.
He doesn't wish to get entangled in the mess the 'mate' matter made and just wanted to get to work with the main part which required his interference.
"I have meeting to attend so I would just say," Orien began, "Nyx, Engel, Theon. The three of you will meet and talk to her about us. She is a sensible girl; she will get it. Xade and Strider along with Illius will make a perfect, magic proof barrier in some old, inhabited area for her to learn and control her powers and the princesses can divide their work to bring her to our world and make her comfortable and feel homely here."
"She already knows about me so I will skip the meeting." Engel stood up and left with a poker face.
Angela explained how he had been seeing Ivy since she was young and figured their bonds when she was eight and knew of all the tricks she could pull. He had disguised himself in an invisible spell yet no matter how strong it was, she could always see him and eventually came to realize that he was invisible to others.
The two had grown quite close and Engel also spent a lot of his time with her when he had no duties and work to attend to, many times when she was asleep and also to make sure she took care of herself. He was also the one who trained her physical fighting skills.
Everyone was shocked to know Engel would do something for someone other than himself without any gain since he was also too practical for his own good. This was a surprise to Orien, as well.
Orien was the first to come to his senses, "I believe you are clear about your responsibilities."
Orien left immediately, in a hurry for whatever duties he had to attend.
Xavi turned to Xade, "I don't care about he reason you felt nothing but she is your mate and you will remember that. I don't care about whatever you all decide but she is YOUR mate and YOU will fulfil your responsibilities."
She stressed it to him repeatedly. Xade muttered his grievances under his breath but did respond openly.
"Darius and Dominic can check through the defenses once again. Orien said that as her power flows out, the defenses will need to be stabilized as per new requirements so they stay up." Theon spoke and Nyx balled his fists not liking his mate having three more mates other than him.
"I cannot believe this… it is just so complicated," Strider was too tired.
"you can try sensing if she's you mate too." Strider's mother, the witch queen suggested with a charming smile though her eyes glared at him.
The elders soon left the youngsters to carry on with their tasks assigned.
Everyone slowly left after making small talk leaving only Nyx, Theon and Xade since it was still night on earth.
"I can't believe I found a mate." Xade found the thought itself incredible and couldn't believe it one bit.
"Who has more than just one mate." Nyx gritted before sighing, exhausted at all revelations and suppressing his rage.
"You two will keep your hands off her!" he roared as he slammed his hand on the table and shifted to his dragon form. The dark, rough skin came in show and he flew away.
Xade had his eyes slightly wide at the sudden outburst while Theon simply rolled his eyes, pouring himself a glass of wine and gulping it all down at once.
In Cristian's penthouse on the 25th floor, Ivy was gazing at the galaxy of stars from the balcony unaware of the pair of white sclera gazing at her.
Ivy faintly saw some huge bird like structure flying high in the sky. It had a long tail and mayebe even wings but was too far and the sky was too dark for her to see it clearly. Shrugging, she turned around only to come face to face with a chest.
Ivy breathed in deeply, "You're here," she said softly as she turned her head up to meet Engel's pink eyes.
Something felt different though. The pink orbs which always gazed at her with gentleness weren't there this time. Instead, there was so much coldness and hatred in them that she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"What's wrong?" she asked furrowing her brows but received silence as a reply.
"Engel?" she asked again, tilting her head to the side.
She raised her hand to wave it in front of him when she felt a strong push on her shoulders and fell off the balcony. She raised her hands forward hoping Engel would help her but he didn't and that's when realization struck her.
Engel did come to talk to her and ask about her day as he usually did before she slept. He hadn't come to make her laugh or massage her shoulders which her often did when she was tired. He had come to kill her.
And it was Engel who had pushed her!
Why?