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Chapter 19- Unedited

"Where are you going?" Lisa's voice stopped me dead in my tracks as I was trying to leave the house silently.Turning around with my hand on the door knob, I shrugged my shoulders.

"I'm just going for a run in the forest" I partially lied. Truth is I was going to the forest but it was to meet Kyle not for a run. I was just around ten in the evening and I guess me going for a run was very common because she didn't even question it.

"Can I come with you?" she said making her way towards me.

"No, please I just want to be alone" I said to her, Rose said not to tell our mates about tonight and I was certainly not going to risk that.

She looked hurt for a bit but she nodded her head anyway "Its okay, I understand and I hope you will forgive me for earlier"

"Its okay, we can forget about it right?" I asked her with a smile on my face and she nodded. Lisa had been a good friend to me and I wasn't going to be angry just because she interrupted an intimate moment between me and Paul, I would be angry too if my mate was to go and leave me.

"Sure, thanks" I flashed one last smile and left. When I got to the usual clearing, I was glad not to find any vampire bodies but Kyle sitting there and waiting for me.

"Took you long enough" he snorted

"I bumped into Lisa and had to come up with a story because I didn't want her come with me" I explained. I don't know why I did it but I just felt the need to explain it to him.

"Good" he nodded his head slightly

"So whats with the secret meetings?" I asked him, I don't know why he asked me to meet him here and why I even agreed. Isn't this classified as cheating?

"Rose asked me to bring you here so that we can go together to her quarters" my face fell a bit. For some reason I was hoping he wanted to spend sometime with me.

"Oh" I merely said

"Okay its time to go, this is going to take much longer than I thought" Rose spoke from behind me, making me curse under my breath. She likes creeping up on me.

"Is Ethan coming too?" I asked turning to face her

"No, its just you and Kyle" she replied "and don't ask why"

"Sure because I'm not curious at all" I said sarcastically. She just laughed at me. It happened to fast, I don't know what happened really but one minute I was standing at the forest the next I was in a dark room filled with herbs and containers. A witches compound.

"Now, there's a reason you are here. She is going to need you when I'm done with her" Rose told Kyle.

"What do you mean?" Kyle asked. I also wanted to know what she meant by that, I mean this was already creepy and this dark room wasn't helping at all the last thing I need is her riddles.

"Patience young ones, patience" she said sweetly moving around the room. It was a very small messy room, with no carpeting, no chair, no table just the ground and cupboards where containers on herbs were placed and had everything lying around, it was crazy.

"You live here" I asked her

"No, this is were I come to practice deep magic" she said grabbing a blanket and spreading it on the ground "Lay down" she ordered

"Oh no, I think I'll just stand" I said eyeing the ground warily, there's no way I was lying there.

"Okay, you'll be on the floor most of the time anyway so its alright" she said shrugging her shoulders. We watched her in silence as she paced around the blanket, chanting softly and pouring some water at the side of the blanket.

"Okay its going to hurt like a total bitch, so I just want you to be ready" She said grabbing some containers on the cupboards.

"Why are we doing this in the middle of the night?" Kyle asked beside me.

"After the spell has been erased, you will see everything in a different light and like I mentioned before, you are the queen meaning every other elemental will be able to see what you see but in a form of a dream" she explained. We both nodded.

"Its eleven, we can start" she said moving to stand in front me taking my hand and pulling me so that I was standing on top on the blanket. 

She let go of my hand and lifted her hands up in the air and then she started chanting. I felt a blow in mt stomach, like someone has kicked me and I screamed out, kneeling before her on the blanket. She continued chanting, her voice getting louder and louder with every word she said, I felt blows from every side of my body. I heard Kyle screaming my name but I couldn't even look at him, It was too much for me to take, just too much. This continued for what felt like a year, she kept on chanting bringing me pain with every word that left her mouth. Just when I thought I was about to give into death, it stopped, the pain stopped and she stopped talking.

I lay on the floor, panting heavily. My eyes wondered to Kyle he sat near the blanket I was currently laying on with tears in his eyes and a pained expression, looking at me like he couldn't believe I was alive.

"Its starting" Rose said still standing beside me. I trailed my eyes over to her, my eyes growing very heavy. My eyes flattered closed but I kept them open, trying to ask Rose what was starting.

"Whats starting?" I asked my voice sounding foreign to me.

"The dream"

Blackout

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I was standing at in my old house, in a full length mirror staring at my own reflection. Even in the dream, I managed to look like a complete mess. My brown hair was longer than I remembered and was sticking out in every direction, my brown eyes were bloodshot and the baggy clothes I was wearing didn't really help the situation at all. The image in front of me changed, it was like playing a movie.

It all started showing from the time we were born, Ethan and I. My mother was a very beautiful woman and looking closely at her, I saw the resemblance. My father on the other hand was more like Ethan, I guess it made sense. Like mother like daughter. In the picture showing we were in a hospital room, the delivery room to be precise. Mom was sitting on the hospital bed while we were in a cot, our father was beside her and they were both looking at us lovingly. The door opened and James and my grandmother came into view.

"Oh my, they are so beautiful" my grandmother gushed coming closer to our cot.

"Indeed they are" James said kissing her head

"She's the one" grandma said with eyes full of tears

"Are you sure?" my mom asked her and she just nodded her head in agreement tears running down her face.

"Ssh its okay" James soothed my crying grandmother

"I know, I'm just happy" she said wiping her eyes with a handkerchief James had handed to her.

Rose was the next to join the party, she was still beautiful but much more younger in this picture. She smiled and picked me up

"She's indeed the one" she said bouncing me softly in her hands.

The next images played were of me being anointed as the queen and most of the staff that James told me about. It was hard for me to watch how my grandmother and my parents died. I promised myself to get Dmitri for the pain he has caused James.

The next scene was the most recent one of when I was still living with my adoptive parents. It was mostly of the night they died and the night I was brought to this place.

The next one was of Paul with an old woman, who looked more like a witch, a dirty witch. They were at the clearing I usually run to.

"She just got here" He said to lady

"I know, I can feel her power" She told him

"So what is it that we have to do?" he asked

"Lisa has already done her part, only you are left to play yours" she told him

"I will cast the same spell I used on Ethan so that she can think you are her mate"

Paul groaned"Do we really have to do this?"

"Yes, you have to its the only way" he nodded his head in understanding. The witch started chanting in a foreign language causing a small tornado to play around until she stopped.

"Eleanor is your mate" she said staring a statue-like Paul "You belong with her. When the time comes find a way to bring her to your master, Dmitri and live the rest to us"

"What about Rosalia?" Paul asked the witch

"I'm stronger than her, she wont do anything" I wanted to shout at her and tell her Rose was stronger than her but I couldn't, I didn't even feel anything at all. Paul nodded and the lady disappeared from the clearing.

While Paul was standing there, Lisa came into view and ran to Paul who embraced her and hugged her for some time, Lisa was Ethan's mate and there was nothing to really worry about.

"In a few months this will all be over" Lisa said to Paul getting out of his embrace.

"Yes and all will get back to normal" Paul answered nodding her head.

"What is it like" Paul asked

"The spell Celeste put on me makes it bearable, its like they're your mate but you don't lose touch of who your mate really is" Lisa explained. There was a tiny voice at the back of my mind that told me I was not going to like what was to follow but I kept my eyes glued to the mirror.

"I'll never love her more than I love you" Hold up. Who the hell was he talking about

"I saw her last night when they brought her in, she's a beaut" Lisa told Paul. Well thanks

"I love you and only you" Paul told her taking her by the hand. My breath hitched when he started kissing her passionately. I wanted to scream and cry but I couldn't, I wanted to look away when they started undressing each other but I was numb, I couldn't move, I couldn't feel, I was frozen.

The next part after that was mostly of Lisa and Paul sneaking in and out while Ethan and I were sleeping, I couldn't understand why they tricked us in the beginning and I wasn't sure I wanted to find out. I found out that the reason for Lisa's outburst earlier was certainly not because she was mad Ethan was living, no, she thought Paul was going to sleep with me.

The mirror went back to showing my tear stricken reflection and before I knew what was happening it splattered into tiny pieces and I covered my face in fear of getting cut.

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I woke up with a start. I was in my bedroom, Rose was at the foot pinning my feet down on my bed and that's when it came to me. I felt like someone had kicked me in the sheen. I felt betrayed, hurt, angry. I couldn't believe it. All this time I have been living a lie. Paul wasn't my mate, he was Lisa's mate. They were compelled by a witch to lure all of us in. I wanted to get out of bed and slit their throats open

"Eleanor listen to me and listen carefully" Rose said sternly "Don't do anything irrational like confronting Paul or Lisa. Act as if nothing has changed because if you ever show any signs of knowing the truth, he wont hesitate to kill you"

"What? You cant be serious?" She was crazy if she thought I was going to let this go and pretend that I didn't know anything.

"I'm dead serious Eleanor" But I wasn't listening to her. I tried to wiggle my feet free from her death grip but she was ten times stronger than I was.

"Okay time for a little destruction"she muttered more to herself. Before I could say anything, the door flew open. I froze and stared at Kyle who stood by the door with eyes bloodshot and shaking with fury. Time stood still and everything ceased to exist. Starring into his deep blue eyes, I felt my heart constrict in my chest, the pressure between my legs was intense. I couldn't tear my eyes from him. If this was the destruction Rose had been talking about, It worked, I was lost into his eyes. I couldn't help but wonder, could Kyle be my mate?

My real mate?

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Sooo... I kinda had this chapter planned out in my head but delivering it was a hustle.

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