Mass release: 17/25
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I was laying on a big and comfortable bed when I regained my consciousness, and for a minute, I wondered if it all had been a terrifying dream, but then I woke up and found myself staring at then high black ceiling of the Poisontail dorm. When I sat down, caressing my forehead that was hurting as hell, I found Bianca sitting down in the couch that is in the center of the big dorm, a mug of something hot in hand, and a book on her lap titled 'The Awakening of Faes by Master Ruhn'.
["Sorry for the overload of information, starlight."]
Fuck, so it's true. "Why do you keep calling me that?" I groaned and Bianca looked up, realizing I was finally awake, putting the book aside.
"Good morning, Princess," she beamed and I closed my eyes.
["Because mom and dad called us that, so you are starlight,"] she chanted.
"Oh, yes, I remember them calling you that," Bianca giggled.
"Ugh, what a fucking nightmare," I cried, grabbing the pillow at my side and laying back down, covering my head with it and screaming on it, then I threw it away, staring at the damn ceiling. "This makes it worse. It's makes it worse."
"What's worse?" Bianca blinked, coming closer.
["Who we are mated to,"] Kitsune told her.
She narrowed her eyes, "Who are you mated to?"
"Eric Von Hyden," I cried, really cried.
"You're mated to the Crown Prince?" She fell down on the edge of my bed.
"No, the King," I sat down again. "Isn't Davon the Crown Prince now?"
"No, Princess, Eric is the Crowned Prince," she scoffed.
"But everyone said it's Davon," I frowned confused.
"And it is!" She sipped whatever she was drinking, side-eyeing me.
I felt my entire being froze, "Eric... is not Davon's father?"
Bianca spilled her drink, "What? Where did you get that from?"
Closing my eyes for a second, I looked at her again, "I don't understand what's happening here now. Eric L. Von Hyden is my mate, he was here with me while I attended VHA as Alamea, I tried to run from him, because dad... I mean... uncle, told me to stay strictly away from the Royals, and he was the Crowned Prince of the Von Hyden then, and I tried, I really fucking did, but he got to me, and after I first kissed him, I... couldn't stop. I had no freaking idea why, but I thought it was just a momentary thing. I was a five-tailed then, and we got together for real. But then I had to go back, to my siblings, because Naomi had been born as soon as I came here then, and she needed me, they needed me."
"When it was time for me to leave, he broke, he begged me to stay, and then he told me we were mates, but... but it felt like happiness, and I didn't felt like I was deserving of it. I didn't feel like I was worthy of it, worthy of what he made me feel, not when it balanced out with what my siblings meant to me. They needed me, and even if it broke us both, I had to go back, so I ran from him and got back to Hell, he tried to get to me, but couldn't. I awakened my 6th as soon as I got back home, then I got deeply depressed and awakened the 7th, and later on I went to Tartarus and a nightmare beast hurt me, and though I killed it, it knocked me out and forced me into a nearly unending nightmare."
"A nightmare with Eric, and that made me awaken my 8th, so, leaving him here and leaving fairy-tale land hurt me so much, that I awakened three tails one after the other. I lost the brightness I had before, and my family noticed it, but I couldn't bring myself to tell them shit, I was broken and there was nothing I could do about it, Hell felt... like a prison then, and I didn't want to be the Crown Princess anymore, I don't want to still, I don't want to be imprisoned to Hell by the Crown, and I'm also engaged to Alec."
"You are engaged?" She yelled.
"Forcedly," I cursed. "My parents... I mean, my uncle and my aunt, forced me into the engaged as soon as Alec was born, so, when I met Eric L. Von Hyden, I was already engaged to him, but neither me nor Alec want it. He mocks me with it, but he hates it as much as I do, especially because he and Kat are a thing, they love each other, and I have a feeling they could be mates. Now that I know he isn't really my brother but my cousin, and I'm not their daughter, it makes me want the throne even fucking less, it's Alec's right, and Kat should be Empress. She has the persona of one, and they will be the best for the job."
"Did you and... Eric consummate the mating bond?" Bianca asked, haunted.
"What does that entails?" I asked, cheeks heating up.
"Sex. Well, not just sex, but he has to... you know, cum inside," she turned red.
"Oh?" I turned redder than my hair. "It's consummated then."
"Well, shit, that complicates things," she chuckled anxiously, but I felt sick.
"I don't see how, he's now married and with two sons, and,"
"Girl, come down, he ain't," she sighed.
"What do you mean? Didn't he merge de Von Hyden and Wintermere?"
"Oh? You really are lost," she drank all that was in her mug and set it down on the ground, then crawled up my bed and laid with her belly down and eyes to me at my side. "Promise not to freak out?"
I narrowed my eyes, "Why would I freak out?"
"Promise?" She baited her lashes.
I have a bad feeling, "Okay, I won't. I promise."
"Nice. So, you're mated to Davon!"
The laugh that left me was mocking, "No, I'm not. I'm mated to Eric."
"Davon Eric Lothaire Wintermere Von Hyden, that's your mate, Princess," she tilted her head, grinning amusedly.