The book of the Realms: Book One

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Jayla's pov

I grew up being loved and cherished and everyone would tell my parents I was so beautiful. That one day I would be an amazing Queen. As a child I couldn't wait to be Queen thinking I would be able to do whatever it was I wanted. I mean my mother was Queen and her every wish was granted. Men adored her and the other Fae women wanted to be her. I knew I wanted to grow up and be just like her, I wanted to be loved and adored.

The realm where I lived was quite different from other realms and the mortal world. My mother despised all other realms. I think it has to do with my father. He didn't live here with us, instead, he was with his six other wives and their many other children, but no one in our realm knew. In our world, you had one mate and that was so for the King to walk out on his mate my mother would have been a huge scandal, and she just couldn't have that. So, she cast a spell so that people would see them as this happy couple that was so in love. I even believed in that spell until I got older and saw the truth for myself.

I hated my father for doing what he did at the time. I guess I didn't understand what was going on because I was so young. I felt he was cheating on my mother and replaced me with all the other children that he had. I had always seen my mother as this fierce Queen but now I pitied her and wondered why she just allowed herself to be so unhappy. Why not change the rules a little bit? I swore right then and there that I would never let any man make a fool out of me like that. When I became Queen, everything would change.

I was done with these barbaric rules. As a child, I did everything I was told and believed in the rules. When I was in my teen years, I was doubtful. I didn't believe in the whole mate thing when it was your parents who picked out your so-called mate and then married you off, it was a popularity contest. I was to marry a high-powered Fae, but I just wasn't attracted to other Fae. I now know why my father did what he did. It wasn't that he didn't love my mother he just hated the rules as much as I did. He just wanted to be free to live his life the way he planned.

My mom was strict, and I really couldn't do much. Every time I turned around, I was being followed by her guards and if I even sneezed wrong, they would report back to her. I was never allowed to go and meet my siblings or see my father. He had to come to me and was rarely allowed to do that. I was starting to hate my mother for the life she was forced upon me, but I had to follow the rules for now until she handed over the crown to me and that would be happening very soon.

A month later

I was finally Queen and with that, I thought freedom would come as well but that wasn't the case. My mother now has her freedom and was off doing whatever she liked after she set me up to marry some Fake guy that I couldn't stand. I was not going to be a rule maker, but a rule breaker and it was time everyone saw that. I wanted peace within all the realms, so I was going to meet with everyone to talk. I wanted things to be different. I wanted to make a difference.

I first met Jayden when I went to visit his father, the King of all dragons. Jayden was younger than me but that didn't seem to stop him from pursuing me. I found him extremely attractive but couldn't let that be known because I was there to make peace not start a war by bedding the Dragon King's son who was soon to be wed just as I was to be married off soon. So, I left there wanting Jayden but not acting on that desire.

I left to go home and start the treaty with Jayden's father, but I couldn't get Jayden off my mind. I wanted him and knew it was wrong, but I just had to have him. I told Jayden's father that I would like Jayden to come to my realm so I could show him around and have him help me with implementing some new rules that help both realms. He didn't hesitate and soon Jayden was with me here.