The book of the Realms: Book One

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

Jena's pov (Jayla's mother)

I got word that my daughter and all her men had left the castle. I didn't think my daughter was a coward. This felt a little too easy for me. She chose a dragon shifter over being Queen. Sometimes I wonder if she was even my daughter. She was more like her father than me. I brought everyone who supported me back to the castle and took back the Fae realm.

Maxim went to the dragon realm to bring his followers here to my realm. Anyone who didn't follow him would be punished. I hated the shifters but having him in my corner made taking over the other realms so much easier plus he wasn't so bad as a bedmate. I guess I can see what Jayla sees in her little shifters. Once I was done using Maxim, I would end him.

He was a much better ally than Javion ever was. All he did was have affairs with me and lie about everything. I have no clue where he is now after I banished him from the Fae realm. When I do find him, I will destroy him and all his conquests. He will have nothing just like Jayla when I am finished. I was going to bring down every other realm but mine. It was time I ended all the shifters.

With my daughter just taking off and leaving everyone the Fae realm welcomed me back with open arms. Things were finally going my way. Now I just had to figure out what other realms weren't happy with what Jayla had done. I did send the word out to all the realms that Jayla has run off with the others. I knew they were all hiding in one of the realms and I was going to find them. I had RayLynn Lea's mother out searching for them. I thought maybe her ex-husband Raven was hiding them, but she told me he had betrayed someone and was turned into a raven and no longer human.

I knew she wasn't out there hiding on her own she had someone helping her and when I found out who they would pay. I found Tobias one of the many men my daughter had taken to bed locked up in the dungeon. I fired him and he was now at my mercy. He told me everything he knew which was somewhat helpful. He said that Lea used power on him to make him fully Fae again. This meant that RayLynn was keeping the fact that her daughter had powers from me unless she knew. I was going to find out once she was back. I didn't trust anyone but myself but as they say, keep your friends close but your enemies closer. I was only going to tell them what I felt they needed to know but the final plan was all on me. I was going to take everyone down.

Jayden's pov

I have been keeping myself busy with coming up with an ironclad plan one that hopefully won us this war. The fact that my father was involved hurt me more than I was letting on. I knew my father was angry with me but to join this war and wanting to take down all other shifters I just can't believe he would do all that. It's hard not to blame myself for this happening. If only I had gone with my father and gotten married then Jayla wouldn't be in danger right now.

I have stayed away from her because I don't know what to say. I felt by being with her I was just causing more problems. Her mother now has everything she wants. Jayla gave up the thrown and hid. She says it's all part of some plan she has yet she hasn't really told anyone what it is. I doubt she has a plan she's just too embarrassed to come clean with us.

She seems to love it here in the human realm. She's thriving and doesn't seem in any hurry to take on her mother. She's even going on a date tonight with some human. Doesn't she have enough issues going on without bringing some other guy into all of this and a human at that? What the hell was she thinking?

It seemed that I was the only one that had a problem with this everyone else was either in their little world or just didn't care. Hartley is now with Lea and Drake's girlfriend Mena is here with him. Jovani shows no interest in Jayla other than as a big brother type. Liam is so ashamed of how he acts that he tends to stay to himself. Kingston is always with Jayla anymore and they have gotten even closer. It seemed like she no longer wanted me or had any need for me.

Maybe I made a mistake by picking her over my family and my realm. I am second-guessing everything and know I need to talk to Jayla about all of this, but I can never get her alone anymore. Maybe I should just leave and try to talk my father out of being a part of this war. I needed to figure out what I was going to do fast before everything completely fell apart. I was going to fix everything one way or another.