Acceptance

Chapter 50

Qin's POV

I walked up and down the halls, in search of my parents. My father had been a no show to the reveal, and my mother wasn't able to stay long. When I saw her, she looked incredibly pale. I went to look for her in her room, but she wasn't there. None of the servants knew where she was either. This was not like her. I thought of the different places she could be, going to each one. Eventually I found her in the library. She looked up from the book she was reading and gave me a kind smile. I sat down in front of her. "Why are you having the Shadows spy on us," I asked her seriously. She looked down, "How did you know it was me?" "Because I remembered over the years as I grew up, I had never seen your element markings. We knew by the amount of Shadows we've found about the palace that it had to be someone who lived here," I explained to her. "You're truly a witch aren't you?" She sighed and rolled her sleeve up, revealing no markings, "I am. When your father and I met, he was furious to be mated to a witch. But he needed an heir or the bloodline would cease." She pulled her sleeves down, "My family had thrown me out for having a warlock for a mate. Your father took me in and in agreement to being able to live here and be his queen, I had to strip myself of my magic and hide my arms. It was after your match with your brothers that I took my magic back." "Did you strip my brothers and I," I asked her. 

She shook her head, "I was a very low magic wielding witch, nothing like your mate Alice. Instead what little traces of witch magic you boys had, had been absorbed by your warlock magic. That tiny trace of witch magic though is why you're able to control all four elements." I nodded then looked her over once more. She still was pale but had some color back in her cheeks, "Why have you been summoning the Shadows?" "Because I don't trust your father," She told me. "He is furious you are king. He is even more furious that you are mated to a powerful witch. I don't know what he plans to do, if anything at all. But I worry for you and your mate's safety. Unfortunately he's disappeared and I don't know where he has gone." "If summoning the Shadows is taking too much from you then stop," I told her, feeling concerned. She shook her head, "It's not the magic. It's your father." 

My blood began to boil then. It means he's been cheating on my mother. When you're mated and you have sex with someone else, it causes your mate intense pain. "Have you thought of severing the bond," I asked her, trying to contain my anger. She sighed again, "In order to sever a mating bond, both parties have too or it won't work. He wants to continue to torture me. Don't worry though, I'm taking a blocker so I only feel discomfort." I nodded, "I think you should give him a taste of his own medicine then see if he'll sever the bond." She smiled softly, "I plan on it. I'm just waiting on my strength to return. So how are your mates adjusting to the castle?" 

After having a nice conversation with my mother I left the library to go see how Alice is doing with her training. I found her in her potions room as her grandmother watched her. She gave me a smile before going back to focus on what she was doing. She then added an ingredient and it suddenly began to have a purple smoke. Both her and her grandmother seemed concerned. Suddenly the potion exploded, throwing me backwards. When I opened my eyes I noticed I was not where I thought I should be. I noticed Alice's grandmother on the floor, get up. "Are you okay," She asked us. "We're fine," I heard my voice say, but I didn't say it. I then noticed my hands weren't mine. "Oh shit," I said when I realized Alice and I had switched bodies. 

We stared at each other wide eyed. Her grandmother then busted out laughing. "What's so funny," Alice, in my body, asked her. Soon our mates came in. "What the hell happened," Pyrus asked when he looked around the room. "They swapped bodies," Her grandmother told them. Pyrus and Drake busted into laughter while Shelton and Nathaniel seemed to be suppressing their own laughter, and Cindy was now taking pictures with her phone.  "How do we reverse it," I asked while standing up. I then nearly fell due to the great weight that was now on the front of my body. I truly did enjoy her breasts, but how does she even fight with these things?  "And how did it happen," Alice asked while putting her hands on her hips. Had she been in her own body it would've been hot, but in mine, it looked weird. "It'll wear off in a couple of hours," She told us. "And you probably put too much of the root into the potion. Now only your souls have been swapped. The abilities stayed with the correct bodies, so you two need to be careful." 

I then felt my stomach grumble and I realized just how hungry Alice was. She truly did possess a large amount of magic and I hated that she had to starve herself so she wouldn't hurt us. "Goddess this feels so weird," Alice grumbled. "I think we're going to enjoy this," Pyrus said with a chuckle. I glared and felt myself growl, shocking myself. It caused all of our mates to laugh while Alice sighed and shook her head. "I think that's enough lessons for one day," Her grandmother said. "Have fun dear." Then she was gone. "How do you two feel," Shelton asked us once he calmed down from his fit of laughter. 

"Like I'm going to fall forward," I confessed with a sigh. "My pants feel really tight and uncomfortable," Alice said, causing even me to laugh that time. They took us back to the room so we could shower and change out of our potion soaked clothes. I couldn't help but notice she was sporting a nice hard on and she rolled her eyes before cupping me between the legs, and rubbed. I gasped and threw my head back, while I heard her chuckle at me, "This isn't so bad after all." She stopped laughing when I grabbed her hard on. We then continued torturing each other, showing what we usually feel when in our own bodies. It was a very eye opening experience feeling first hand what it's like when I make her cum. Although I did enjoy having sex from her perspective, I truly don't want to go through this again. Note to self, stay away from her potions room.