You got to be kidding me?

When Tracia came crashing threw the front door like a fucking tornado, I just knew that evil bitch was up to something. But this?

This is all time low! Even for her.

As soon as the word mate left Navins mouth Starla crumbled to the living room floor wailing her poor beautiful eyes out.

The bond between them two seem to disengage right before our very eyes. Even the marking that Navin placed on her neck is starting to fade. There's only a little remaining semblance of it.

Tracia ran into Navins arms gleefully squeaking out like a damn hyena in heat. Unfortunately, Navin reciprocated her feelings hugging her back like she was his damn life line.

We all stood there frozen in the room just staring at them cluelessly. Surely Navin can see right through this damn scam of a bond? Can't he?

Niko rushes over to Navin roughly separating the two of them. Pushing them apart holding each one by their chests with his bare hands.

"Navin what the hell are you doing? This slut isn't your fucking mate, Starla is!" Niko bellows. "Knock it the hell off!"

Navin stares at Niko with a mask of pure confusion all over his face. He looks down to the floor where Starla is crying her eyes out then back to a deviously smiling Tracia.

"He is my mate. How dare you keep us apart!" Tracia whines. Damn that woman is absolutely revolting.

"No he fucking isn't! He's Starlas and you damn well know it. What have you done Tracia? What witch have you bribed to help you with this ridiculous fucking notion?" I fiercely ask her walking over to them. I will not let this bitch break Starla's heart like this! I will kill her first.

"I know of no witch. This is the truth Alis. Can't you see how much he wants me?" I cringe. Glancing over to Navin I can still see the confusion on his face. Not of hint of desire shows for Tracia. He only keeps staring damn an at Starla on the floor.

"Bullshit! He is not your mate you fat sow! I don't know what type of game you're playing but this fucking ends now!" I scream at her, walking back over to a fallen Starla, I gently pick her from the floor placing my hands under her arms. She is still hysterically crying. The tears are falling down her beautiful face. I can feel her agony through our bond. I despise Tracia even more when I feel how broken Starla is.

"Come firecracker." I urge her off the floor and over to a very confused Navin. Placing her right in front of him, Niko drops his hand away from his chest slowly eyeing a very distraught Starla beside him.

"Kiss him!" I demand of her. She looks back at me with an wide eyed expression. If what I'm thinking is true. Then just like in the damn fairytales a kiss will resurrect their bond. Hopefully.

"What?" Starla ask me dumbfounded.

"Please just kiss him." I beg, pushing her a little closer to Navin. Navin looks down at her curiously.

"No he's mine! Stop!" Tracia yells, starting to walk over to us but thank fuck Niko grabs her by her arm holding the bitch back from intruding. "You can't do this Alis!" I ignore her.

"Shut the hell up Tracia! You went from trying coerce me into being with you to trying to rob Navin of his love! You're fucking despicable! Are you damn that hard up to find someone to actually care about your pitiful ass that you would do something this vulgar? I don't know what I ever saw in you. You fucking disgust me!" Demir glowers at her. Damn he actually grew a pair? I'm surprisingly proud of him. It's about damn time!

"Navin kiss her. You will see...just do it." I demand. "She is your true mate not that bitch Tracia! Starla loves you!" I add ignoring Tracias whining behind me.

Navin looks at me then nods his head with determination, taking a step closer to her, he lowers his head then he gently brushes his lips across hers slowly. He groans then deepens the kiss dramatically.

He encases her in his arms tightly, kissing her like she is no doubt completely his.

I take a tiny step back watching them, smiling. Tracia can kiss my ass. She thought she had all of this wrapped up in a pretty little bow? Not if I have anything to say about it. I would do anything for my firecracker.

They break apart from their heated kiss hesitantly. Navin looks deep into her eyes, I watch as recognition hits him finally.

"Fuck! I'm sorry baby. I have no idea what happened?" His remorse is clearly showing. "How the hell did she do that to me?" He ask perplexed.

I focus on Starla's neck the marking that Navin gave her is now reappearing though slowly, the outline is becoming more prominent.

I turn around to look at Tracia, the look she has on her face is inspiring. It's a look of utter defeat and I can't help but to gloat devilishly inside about it.

"Who helped you?" I snarl toward her. I desperately want to know. Chad then decides to make a complete ass out of himself as always by storming over to us, standing behind his mother giving us all evil glares, especially to me. I just roll my eyes at his audacity.

"She wouldn't do anything like that!" He defends her mistakingly. "Tell them mom!"

"Yes she would. She may be your mother but she is nothing but a low down conniving bitch! Who helped you Tracia?" I ask again. Tracia hesitates glancing up at her son guiltily.

"Just tell him. You're already busted!" Demir insist.

Tracias eyes bounce all around the room searching for someone to help get her out of this unfortunate predicament she has so willingly put herself in, I presume. But no help is forthcoming.

She lets out a ragged breath. "I don't know who he was he pulled me into a dream, he asked if I wanted to be your destined one Demir but I denied him. I thought if I could take away one of her other mates that I could finally be the Queen that I deserve to be! So I chose Navin because he seems like he loves her the most out of all of you. If I could win him over then I would work my around to all of you. Making you all fall in love with me one by one. He did some sort of mumbo jumbo on me and told me where I could find all of you." She says in defeat. It has to be Starla's stalker.

Chad looks at her disbelievingly. I just shake my head.

"Get out of here. I don't ever want to see you again. If you try anything like this again I won't hesitate to kill your sorry ass!" I vow vehemently. "That's a fucking promise." Tracia gasp.

"This is my damn house. You cant kick my mother out of my own house if anyone is leaving it's fucking you!" Chad argues. So be it.

I turn my attention back to Starla and Navin. "We're leaving. Grab your bags." I start to walk away.

"Wait!" Starla yells. She edges her way over to Tracia, the room suddenly goes silent as we watch her. She stands right in front of Tracia glaring at her deviously, she surprisingly rears back her little hand then slaps the fucking shit out of her. I can hear the slap transverse throughout the room. I instantly widen my eyes in surprise.

Damn! That's fucking sexy as hell! I love it when she gets physical.

Starla walks back over to Navin, she leans up on her tiptoes firmly planting a gentle kiss on his lips when they eventually separate she turns back around looking straight at Tracia enormously smiling.

"Mine!" She claims fiercely.

After leaving Chads home we only had two places that we could go, without knowing where the other missing piece of the sword was, we all decided that going back to my Realm was the best course of action for us to take, for now anyway.

That is until we can somehow locate the other missing piece so we can finally put an end to Starla's nightmare. I can't believe the asshole that's fucking doing this to her actually fucking killed her!

I hate Chad but I no doubt owe him a debt of gratitude for saving Starla's life. One that I do indeed intend to repay him for someday but as of now he is the furthest thing from my damn mind.

We most assuredly have to find this piece before Starla's demented attacker is able to pull her into another damn nightmare.

The threat of her not being able to survive another nightmare with him is messing with my mind.

I don't. No I can't lose her to this evil monstrosity. I will burn the fucking world down if something ever happens to her. I have to end this shit and I have to end it now!

The only problem with that is that we have no damn idea where the last piece is actually at. The Oracle said that it was too far away for even her to see. That it was shrouded in darkness whatever the hell that's suppose to mean. How are we going to be able to find it if she can't even locate it? An all powerful being such as herself should have the answers but unfortunately in our case: she doesn't.

That leaves us basically stuck!

That's why at this moment we are all in my study about to have a conversation about all of it but the foremost discussion that's on the table is why we have kept secrets from Starla.

She is determined to get to the bottom of all of this and I can't say that I blame her either. It's time we all open up to each other if we want this relationship of ours to work. It's the only way we are going to be able to move forward.

"No more lies. No more secrets. No more being deceitful. I want the truth. All of it. From here on out we can't keep anything from each other. It makes us weak and as of right now I can't see us staying together if this keeps continuing to happen. Honestly, I just can't take anymore. If you can't open up to me and tell me everything then I think that this relationship between us all is not going to work. It's all up to you now. The ball is in your court." Starla lays down the ultimate offer and I can't argue her point about it either. If we had just been honest with each other from the beginning then none of this shit would be happening to us now.

The only issue I'm having with it is that if I open up and tell her everything about me then she will definitely see me in a very different light than she does now.

I'm not who she thinks I am. What she sees is not exactly what she gets. I'm evil incarnate. A devious killing bastard. She had only seen the lighter side of me never the darken side.

I'm scared that once she is able to see all of me that she will not want me in her life any longer and that is something that I can not even fathom. A life without her is no life at all.

What will she see when she looks at me after I confess it all to her? A demon? A beast? A monster? I'm no better than the damn asshole that stalks her. I don't want her to see that side of me. Ever.

"I'll start and before I do the first thing I want to say is how sorry I am for not telling you sooner. It's hard for me to talk about. Niko and I have been dealing with this tragedy for so long now on our own that we both find it hard to allow anyone else in on it." Navin declares emphatically to Starla that's sitting across the room from him. With her sitting beside me it allows me to view her reactions up close.

The sympathy on her face toward Navin and Nikos plight shows me just how much she truly does love them both. I just hope I can capture that some look on her face that's she has for them when I tell her all of my tragically dark secrets.

"Abiit was murdered twenty seven years ago by our own brother Nolan." Navins admission startles us all.

Abiit was once, as I thought then, the love of my life. When she died tragically I never got the details of her death. At that time Niko and Navin and I plus Demir we're not on speaking terms to say the least. We absolutely hated each other. To hear about what happened to her after all of this time is completely heart wrenching.

"Well we call it murder but it was actually a tragic accident. At the time we saw at as nothing else but him killing her." Niko adds. Now I'm a bit confused at Nikos admission. Was it murder or a accident?

"Alright you have to fill in the blanks because I'm really confused here." I admit scowling across the room at them.

"What Niko is trying to say is that Nolan and Abiit were both in tragic airplane crash. Nolan at the time was piloting the aircraft. We have blamed him for years for Abiits death. He was...drinking while..." Navin trails off with his voice starting to tremble. He lowered his head to his chest breathing rather heavily.

Starla stands up quickly making her way over to him when she reaches him Navin breaks down helplessly in her arms, crying with his head laying her shoulder. She coos at him rubbing her hand along his back tenderly. I suck in a very long breath.

I hear Demir push off of the sofa beside me when I glanced over I notice Demir is hurriedly walking over to Niko wrapping him up in his embrace just as Starla and Navin are presently doing. Niko is crying also.

I suddenly feel like an outsider viewing them all as all of their raw emotions flow unbearably out of them. I know deep down that I also lost Abiit when she died but she was in fact actually Navin and Nikos mate not mine. If I lost Starla like they did with Abiit, I undoubtedly know that I would be in just as much pain as them both, if not more.

It's just so damn heartbreaking.

The crying has toned down to drizzling whimper. Although both of them now have red rimmed eyes and tear stained faces they have sobered up enough to carry on with their sadden tale.

Starla has returned to her seat beside me still a bit shaken from their confession, wiping away the remaining wetness from the tears that were falling down her face.

Navin clears his throat before he proceeds with his story, "They crashed into a heavily dense forest in the Terra Realm, Abiit died instantly on impact. Nolan," he stops, getting choked up remembering, "Nolan was in a coma for a while...he." Navin gets flustered, Niko places his arm across his shoulders patting his arm gently.

"What Navin is trying to say it's that Nolan was in a coma for three years but he survived. Because of the crash he was badly scarred. The entire right side of his body is deeply scarred. He lives with us at the castle but very seldom does he leave his room. Our mother mostly takes care of him. We still can't find it in our hearts to forgive him." Niko concludes with a touch of vehement in his tone.

"Why do you still blame him? Sure he was drinking but you must know that it was an accident. Why after all of this time do you still hate him?" Starla ask them with sincerity.

I was actually thinking the same thing myself. It's been almost thirty years now surely they can forgive him after all of this time? They do still let him live in the castle so they both must still care about him right? I wonder to myself.

"You don't know anything about this Starla. You don't know how we feel. How can you even ask that of us? He did this! He may not have done it deliberately but it is his fault. He made a choice and it was the wrong damn one!" Navin protests viscously. Starla flinches back from his angry tone.

"That's not what I was trying to say Navin. I may not have been in that type of situation but I do have brothers also and I can't imagine hating them like you two hate your brother for something that basically was out of anyones control." She replies to his anger so softly. I admire her for her tenderness.

"Are you fucking serious? It was in his control! He should not have been drinking at all if he knew he was going to pilot that plane! He was fucking careless and because of that he took away the only woman away from me that I will ever....." Navin halts his tirade quickly realizing his mistake. His eyes suddenly widen flicking rapidly from Starla's shocked face to Nikos disapproving glare. I blow out a breath.

"The only woman that you will ever love right? That's what you were going to say? Finish please. Complete the sentence. You know what, never mind, I get the picture! I thought we could sit down and talk about all of these secrets and lies that all of you keep trying to keep from me. I was just hoping that we could get past this shit and move on from it but you just made it perfectly clear to me that we can't." Starla stands up from her seat glowering down at all of us with a piercing stare. "I guess we have bigger issues than I thought."

"You said you loved me that was clearly a fucking lie. I'm done. I'll handle this monster I have on my own. I don't need nor do I want any of your help. I'm sorry Niko, Alis, and Demir but if one of you can't love me like he said he did at one time then I don't trust that any of you do. I'm tired of all of this. I just can't." She screams out in fiery anger. Stomping away from us heatedly she heads for the studies door.

"Wait!" I yell out halting her departure. Standing from my own seat I march over to her grabbing ahold of her tiny hand with my own.

"I didn't do this firecracker. Why blame all of us when only one of us fucked up? I love you more than anything I can't lose you because of this." I plead finally telling her just how I truly feel about her.

"It won't work. Navin doesn't love me. Not like he said he did. I will either have to reject him Alis or just walk away. I'm choosing the latter because I don't want to hurt Niko but I can't stick around and be trampled on like this anymore. My heart just can't take it." She pushes out a long breath.

"But I do love you Starla." Navin declares. She pays him no heed.

"If you need me, for anything, I'll be at the High Royal palace. I do love you, actually I love all of you but I think it's time to cut our losses and just say goodbye. I'm so sorry." She says tenderly placing her hand against my cheek.

No it can't end this way!

"Starla." Demir drags out her name. Glancing over to him I can see the defeat on his face.

No he can't give up!

"Little warrior he didn't mean it. Please stay." Niko pleads.

Please!

Starla looks at them both wistfully. She shakes he head and with a little sigh she turns on her heels and walks out the fucking door.

What just fucking happened?

I stand there staring at the damn door hoping that she changes her mind and just walk back threw it. I wait and wait. This can't be real? It's all his fault.

"You fucking did this! You bastard! You let her go without even fighting for her. How could you?" I growl out not even bothering to turn around to face him. I'm afraid that if I do look into his eyes right now and not see any regret in them at all for his delusional actions that I will absolutely fucking kill his stupid ass.

"I'm sorry. I really am. It was just a slip up." Navin says timidly.

A slip up?

"You're kidding me right?" I turn around glowering at him, "a slip up? You just basically told her that you didn't fucking love her how the hell was that just a slip up?" I ball my hands up tightly. I want to fucking punch something.

"I do love her. I just messed up. I didn't mean for it to come out that way." He whines desperately. "It's like a habit. I mean come on guys you have to realize that Abiit has always been my one true love. One that I loved for years. It's hard to let that go." He begs for understanding.

"What I don't get is that when we first met Starla you were all over my ass about giving her a chance. Telling me that I needed to let Abiits memory go and to move on. Practically begged me to do it. Then after I have finally managed to move on from it you start acting like this. It's either you love her or you don't. There is no in between Navin. Yes, Abiit was our first true love but Starla is our love now well at least for me she is and I will not let you fuck it up for me or for Tanny! I'm going after her regardless if you come with me or not. I love her and I will not let her go because of your stupidity." I wholeheartedly agree with Niko.

"Same. Maybe we can catch up to her before she leaves." I rush out my words as I turn on my heels sharply headed for the door.

"Wait up I'm not letting her go either." Demir pipes in hurriedly standing from the sofa he rushes after me.

"Let's go." Niko adds standing. Slamming open the door we all rush off to Starla's guest room hurriedly.

Opening her door when we finally reach it we all edge our way into it quickly. Only to find it completely devoid of our love. Her suitcases are still laying on the bed but she is nowhere to be seen. Storming over to the bathroom I open the door to find it empty also.

"She left everything here? I don't understand. Why would she leave all of her belongings?" Demir ask obviously confused by it just as I am.

"Unless she didn't leave by her own free will." Niko replies deeply scowling and I hate that I know what he's implying.

"Do you think that her stalker came and took her? How though?" I quip.

"Well he has managed to come into the waking world through her dreams. We've all seen that with our very own eyes. He is a real person not just some figment of her imagination. He hurt the Oracles husband put him in well care center remember? So we know he can physically appear here. He has to be another supernatural." Niko acknowledges wisely.

"Search the entire castle!" I demand of them growing hysterical. "Tanner!" I yell running from the room frantically. "Tanner!"

I bump into him as soon as I got to the last step on the staircase. "Starla is missing did you happen to see her?" I rush. He just shakes his head. Damn!

"Gather about ten of our guards. We're headed to the High Royal castle if we can't find her here. Hurry!" I command. Tanner rushes off to do my bidding.

Navin runs up to me followed by Niko and Demir in his wake. "Did you find her?" Navin ask breathing harshly.

"What the fuck do you care!" I grouse stepping around him. I don't give a damn about his feelings right now. We need to find Starla and fast!

"I said I was sorry Alis. I do love her. I didn't mean to hurt her." Navins voice trembles.

"I'm not the one you have to apologize to and right now I could give a shit less about your feelings. We have to find her and you just better hope that we do because if her stalker has her and something happens to her I'm coming after you!" I sneer at him. He blanches but I don't precisely give a damn at this moment.

I just want Starla back!