**SILAS**I felt Elaina's breathing evens out while she lays next to me, facing me. All I can do is stare at her. Only having just met her today and already being so infatuated with her has me reeling. Her perfect dark brown hair that just waterfalls around her in waves. Caressing her shoulders, her skin is so soft and tan. Something so minimal seems to be so significant to me. Her beautiful and long full eyelashes resting against her flustered cheeks. Is it because of the mate bond that she's blushing? Or is she actually asleep? Can she feel me staring at her? I want to whisper her name but I don't want to disrupt her peaceful slumber. Her skin is a beautiful golden color that radiates in the sunshine but is so warm and velvety smooth in the night. She left a lamp on on my side of the bed. My side? Finding out not only about a whole world that was hidden from me, but also that this is rightfully where I belong has sent me into so many questions rolling through my brain.Odin is no h

**AELLA**Getting a call from my baby brother about a vision he had of his mate being tortured and how he needed to find her cut me deep. I have prayed many nights to the Mystic Kingdom that they would grant him a special and amazing mate. I should have been more specific. But even one who has been tortured can turn out to be the biggest blessing in disguise. I would know. That is how I first got away from being a Demon. My whole life growing up as a Demon, I was taught how to taunt, bribe, steal and anguish others. But I didn't know why I just couldn't do it. And because of that 'incompetence' that they called it, I was traded into a trafficking ring for supernaturals. From the time I was ten years old, I was beaten, sexually abused and physically tortured by other Demons in the trafficking ring. But luckily for me, I was able to escape while helping the others that were there with me escape. I used that experience I gained from those unfaithful years of torture to push me through t

**AELLA** When Elaina pulled me into my bedroom, I thought she was going to yell at me for being here. Or get upset with me for something. But once she slammed the door, she paced for a second and then her eyes landed on me, I knew she wasn't upset with me at all. “Aella, what I am fixing to tell you, it could be big news. It’s something that Colby literally just mind linked me because he didn’t know how to tell you. But me being the Alpha and his best friend I am taking it upon my self to help you both so don’t be mad, okay?” She finished. I had an inkling that I might get mad if she’s asking me not to, but I am pretty good at controlling my anger, so I nodded at her. “Okay, first off, I know about only snipets of what you went through when you were younger. Colby told me his whole life story, about you, never the details, but enough and about how you received your soul. I am his best friend, and he has been speaking of you to me since we met. I figured when the time was right you