Locatlie: The Beginning. (Book 1)

Epilogue

I woke up some time later on a couch and I opened my eyes carefully and  turned my head. I saw Trevor, Hugo and William sitting by a table along with their fathers and Nat. I recognised the main living room in the castle. I sat up and the seven of them turned their heads and they stopped talking right away. I rubbed my eyes and I looked at Hugo whom was staring at me with a saddened look. All these people had lost someone they cared about because of me, instead of thinking about how I could use this to get back home, the idea that they lost someone because of me, controlled me.

I started to cry, no full-on sob, and I felt someone sitting in front of me on the couch, holding onto me. I recognised Hugo's scent right away and that only made me more upset.

"It's all my fault" I said through the sobs, screaming it out. Hugo held on tightly to me, rubbing my back and he gave my shoulders kisses.

"It isn't your fault" Hugo said after about ten minutes of me full on sobbing. He grabbed my face and wiped the tears from my face. "None of this is. We checked how far back the tattooed fucks go" he said and William walked past, giving the top of my head a kiss and he handed me a glass of water. "And we found the first cases a year after our mother was taken" He said and my eyes widened. "My mother, in her life before the process, was the daughter of" he took a deep breath as he looked sideways for a second. He was going to tell me information that a queen shouldn't know, it was against the rules. But somehow, they trusted me, why I didn't know, but a small part of me was happy about this. "She was the granddaughter of Princess Margaret, the sister of the late Queen Elisabeth" he said and my eyes widened. "We never thought it could be people from outside Locatlie. Or that any of it started anywhere but Locatlie. Why don't you come sit with us, and we'll explain what we can ok hun?" I leapt forward and held onto him tightly. I had missed him so much in the past days, I loved Trevor with my whole heart, and just like I missed Trev when I was with Hugo and William, I missed Hugo and Will when I was with Trevor. He held onto me, rubbing my back and he gave me a kiss on my cheek.

I stood up and I walked up to William and held onto him and I never wanted to let go. He held onto me tightly as well giving the top of my head a couple of kisses. "It's not your fault" he whispered. "Thanks to you we have more clarity ok. Thanks to you we have leads" he said and he looked me in the eyes and I stared back at him and nodded slowly as I gave him a peck and then another short hug. I then went and sat next to Trevor, moving my chair towards him, and I put my head against his chest, and he put his arm around me. I ate while they told me more information.

"Amongst those hundred girls that were taken for us, was the Duchess Charlotte of England" Steven said. "Her name was changed to Patricia and she eventually became the queen of Locatlie. Before her, we had only taken unknown girls. Girls that weren't affiliated with Royalty or any form of power. But my fathers, they changed this to make sure our security systems would sell better. They also believed that our bloodline would then be purer" He explained and I nodded. "Two years after she was taken, the rape cases started to slowly higher in our country and the beginnings of the tattoo that we now know, started to show up. One of my sisters was brutally raped by four men" he said letting out a sigh. "Our fathers and the kings, decided to make rape and sexual assault X-3 and X-4. We leaked to the public that any sexual assault case offenders, would get the same treatment as murders. "My mother didn't like it, but accepted it. When she died, Patricia was chosen."

"Which sister" I stammered softly.

"Yolene" Steven said and my eyes widened in sadness and he nodded slowly at that.

"We brought out one picture out into the world with us and our wives. Everyone in the world thought she looked familiar, but no world leaders thought to act on it. Ten years ago we took 50 girls, and 8 years ago we took another 50." He said. "More tattooed men got arrested and we became rougher on crime. We did a public, for the Local's, flaying of a serial raper. This calmed them down a tad" he said. "Our Patricia went for frequent walks, always had at least four security men, and would always be home before 8. One night she didn't come home, at 830 we sent out our people to go look for her. She was laying on the stone-cold floor" He said and I saw that Lucas fists were balled up, my husbands were all looking down. "Fully nude, and the tattoo was stabbed in her stomach. It was also very clear that she had been raped" he stammered. "They left her as garbage on the streets. Our suspicion of them trying to save her or something was automatically debunked, because she was murdered and killed. As a precaution, we wanted to make sur that the next queen wasn't the daughter of a too public figure" he said and I looked at him, my heart beating a tad more; he was going to tell me whom I was, I felt it. "But you were part of the process and by Seglusa's law we had to give you a fair shot and you shined the moment the masked men were replaced by the priestesses. I remember you getting the test about history, I was watching from the window, you probably saw that, and you were so intelligent, had an opinion, but there was something mischievous about you. Then Lea chose you as her candidate and I had this horrid feeling that my sons would fall for you"

"Why's that so bad?" I said and Steven nodded slowly.

"Because your family knows one of the most powerful families in the United States Julia" He said and I stared at him with a bit of shock. I sat up now looking at Hugo whom wasn't looking at me, he had told me about several families whom were actually calling the shots in the united states. "We're not going to tell you which family, or going to confirm any of it or tell you anymore about it. Just know that you are part of an American legacy. When our sons found out, well" He sighed. "They find out on the choosing ceremony, before they chose, whom they are in real life. Trevor almost killed us" I frowned at that, looking at Trevor. "Because we knew that you wanted a public queenship, but we also know that you look way too much like your mother for it to be a thing. So, we made up a plan, a story, that you will be told later this week. We are certain now that we can trust you, you helped us with the information about the tattooed fuckers" Steven said and I nodded slowly. "Those two men that were on the kings land during your date with Trevor" Steven said and I felt my cheeks start to blush a bit. "They were there to take you. Their intel said you were going to be with either Hugo or William. They thought the two of them would have a shot against them" Steven said "When they saw you with Trevor, they decided on another day. They then bumped into one of our cousin's daughter whom was going for a stroll"

"No" I said and Trevor stared ahead right away. "So- I." I said and Trevor looked equally as pissed off as Lucas was right now.

"So, l, what?" I said closing my eyes and putting my hands through my hair "There is a high possibility that there will be an attempt, maybe several attempts, to take me away from Locatlie and back to what? My old family?" I said, my heart fluttering at the idea.

"Yes" Simon said looking at me

"But they- don't they realise that this is my home now. Your sons are my home, my sanity, my everything" I said and to my huge shock, I wasn't acting this, I felt this. "They're my everything"

"And we are convinced of that too. Hence why we could tell you this" he said and I nodded. "We are upping your security measures for you though and there is currently a house sweep by the military all over Locatlie and we have arrested about 100 men with those tattoo's" Lucas said and my eyes widened.

"What do the people of Locatlie think of this?" I stammered looking at them and they stared back at me.

"They're used to it" Simon said "And they understand it. We said it was a threat, so they are also giving up their neighbours with tattoo's and stuff like that"

"Ok." I said nodding slowly as I nudged my head against Trevor's for a bit. "Whenever our sons are 15 and we take the first batch of prospective wives, we're going to have to be very careful" I said as I sat up, keeping my hand on Trevor's leg. "I'm going to bed" I said looking at Trevor and Trevor nodded I gave him two pecks before standing up. I hugged Will from the back and gave him several kisses on his cheeks and he smiled at that and I loved seeing and making him smile. I was so happy that I could see them again today. I walked up to Hugo and gave him two pecks and rubbed his shoulders. "Good night" I said to them and they nodded.

I walked out of the room and over towards the door, before realizsng I didn't know which day it was, and so whom I was with. I walked back into the foyer, the room before the living room and I heard them talk.

"She believed the part about her family" Hugo said and my eyes widened, they were talking about me. "She is never allowed to know whom her real parents are."

"You don't believe her love for us is enough to make her stay then?" Trevor said and I put my hand to my heart, trying to silence it somehow.

"That doesn't matter anymore. If she ever wants to leave, we have blackmail material thanks to Trevor." Lucas said and I frowned.

"Blackmail material?" William said, equally as confused as I. I was shocked that they didn't come to my defence. Was this all a game, was I just here as their play toy?

"She joined Trevor in the circle of Hell yesterday. Tortured a man, we have that footage along with their marital practices they did in that room. And once one of you finally knocks her up, we can blackmail her with her child." Lucas said. I didn't hear anymore as suddenly loads of things fell into place. In the past weeks I had had a lot of mood swings, my emotions were heightened, my breasts were number after a good fuck, I ate loads of food, I forgot small details that had been told about me. I didn't know when I had last bled. Was I pregnant?

The way my husbands were talking though, hurt me. It hurt me, and I don't know if these were hormones talking, or if these were actual emotions. I didn't want to be near any of them and I decided I was done and I left.