The Fae Queen’s Harem: A Reverse Harem Paranormal and Fantasy Romance (The Cursed Dragon Queen and Her Mates Book 3)

by Meg Xuemei X

  Our mate name calling us as such also helped our cause, though it humiliated and hurt us a great deal.

  With Elvey’s superior glamour, we planted the illusion in Tianna’s mind to make her think we were enamored with her. She believed that we were fondling her while it was only the glamour at work.

  We hated to admit it, but we knew we wouldn’t be able to pull it off without Elvey’s aid, given the aversion we felt toward the fake dark queen. And we weren’t natural actors like Elvey. We dragons were a straightforward species. We didn’t like faking. We hated games.

  But we now played it like some fucking professionals to protect our mate.

  We let her see a little of the game but not too much, so she could act out on her hate toward us and make it more plausible. When it got too much, we shut down the bond, with Elvey’s assistance on the other side.

  I wondered if that bastard enjoyed this, enjoyed that our mate hated us but relied solely on him and gave him all her love and attention.

  What would become of us when this was over?

  We needed to end this before we went bat-shit crazy.

  Our mate and us had once vowed to each other that there was nothing we couldn’t get past, but I doubted she would get past this. Even in the end, after she knew the truth, our relationship had been damaged beyond salvation.

  How could we win her back when her love for us had withered, and there wasn’t even a piece of memory left to pick it up?

  Especially now that she had Elvey, who could fulfill her every need?

  My brothers shared the same thought as I when we’d learned about her marriage to him. They’d held the bonding ceremony consecrated in a blood ritual.

  They had matching bonding runes etched on their forearms.

  They would be husband and wife forever.

  What about us? What would be left for us? Left of us?

  A thousand daggers piercing through our souls would be more welcome than knowing our mate had chosen another over us.

  She’d given up on us. She’d abandoned us.

  We’d been replaced, just as she’d announced it loud and clear in front of everyone in court.

  We have work to do, brothers, Iokul said in our heads, dragging me from wallowing in my misery. His expression was as grim and stormy as mine.

  Blaze only stared into an empty space. Time is running out, he murmured.

  It was completely bleak for us.

  Without her, without touching her, without her in our arms, we were drowning in desolation.

  The world was devoid of hope and color and warmth. Maybe it wasn’t worth saving anymore?

  Let’s do this, I agreed.

  This would be our final act.

  We would not give up fighting for her.

  22

  I’d hurt Rai, Blaze, and Iokul badly in court. I’d been impressed that I could still hurt them, partly because of their male pride. I’d been merciless at rubbing salt on their wounds, letting them know blatantly that I’d been more than glad to let them go and that I’d chosen Elvey over them.

  They’d hurt me worse. I’d thought hurting them would offer me some satisfaction, but it only brought me empty aching and hollowness.

  When I curled in Elvey’s warm arms in deep night, my fingers in his thick lavender hair, I felt a spark on the other side of my mating bond, like the last ember of burning coal.

  I grabbed at it before it shut down.

  I shouldn’t be obsessed with my exes, who were set to destroy me, yet I couldn’t resist spying on them. On a few occasions, I’d tried to use my bonding magic to slip into their heads, but somehow, they’d all learned how to shove me out with a brutal, vengeful force.

  How could that be? It was like someone had been mentoring them.

  The scene suddenly wheeled and changed, and I wasn’t clinging to Elvey anymore. I was with my evil aunt in her vast, red bed.

  I sat at the foot of the bed, looking down at the bitch’s naked thighs. Blaze and Rai perched on either side of her, staring at her nude body.

  Their masks blocked their facial expressions, but there was heat in their eyes.

  Immediately, I knew I was in Iokul’s head again. Somehow it was easier for me to slide into his head than into Rai’s or Blaze’s. Iokul was more reserved among his brothers, but he was also the most open when it came to accepting change.

  A wave of nausea flooded my stomach at the unpleasant scent coming from Tianna’s open legs. I steadied myself, wondering if the nausea came from me or from Iokul. I somehow sensed turmoil in him.

  Stirring in his dream, Elvey drew me tighter against his chest, pulling me out to now and here. I remained motionlessly, not wanting to awake him.

  As soon as he settled, I dove through the mating bond again and latched on in Iokul’s head.

  “I’m tired of this game,” Rai said. “It’s time to end it. Time to end that little bitch.”

  I was that little bitch he referred to. I swallowed the bile at the back of my parched throat. I couldn’t bear to continue to watch, but I couldn’t tear my eyes away, either.

  “We don’t want to see her pathetic face in your court again.” Blaze spat. “The sight of her sickens me. Really sickens me.”

  “She wounded you, didn’t she?” Tianna studied them with cruel interest. “She displayed her man whore like he was some godsend.”

  “No more than we wounded her.” A cold laugh flew out of Iokul’s mouth. “Have you seen the way she’s looked ever since we dumped her?”

  “Her eyes have been puffy and bloodshot,” Rai said with a smug smirk. “She must be weeping every night. She can’t even hide it. How pathetic! Worthless little slut.”

  I clenched my fists, trembling with heartache and rage.

  Blaze shook his head in disgust. “How did we even pick her as our mate in the first place?”

  “We were deceived,” Rai said. “We thought she was the one. We thought she could give us the Dragon Realm and break our curses. And she kept wiggling her ass and tits to keep us in her black spider’s web.”

  Fury coursed through my veins. I’d never done the things they accused me of. I’d never wanted to ensnare them. They’d always had their free will and could walk away from me at any time. In the end, they’d done just that. As for wiggling my ass, it was always because they’d started it. How twisted they’d become.

  I bit my inner cheek until I tasted the metallic tang of blood.

  Keep stabbing me in the back, assholes. Your end won’t be pretty if you stick with the foul demon bitch. Eventually, she’ll be fed up with you, swallow your souls, and chew out your bones!

  “You want to do this or not, Tianna?” Rai said. “Let’s end that nasty, controlling little twig tonight before she even knows what shit hit her, and before her insufferable male whore finishes fucking her.”

  They were quite clumsy and corny at name-calling, these dragons!

  Tianna’s eyes grew intense, black light swirling in them, then they glazed over with unbridled lust when Blaze’s hands roughly cupped her breasts.

  I’d prepared myself for this, yet it still felt like a hot iron poker impaling my heart.

  Tianna threw her head back and moaned the dragons’ names.

  “Decide, Queen Tianna, the unmatchable beauty in the universe,” Iokul said. “Lay down your guard just this one time. Let us into your most inner secret and break our bond to that hybrid bitch Danaenyth. Rid us of our final piece of the curse, and we’ll be yours forever.”

  “Be mine first,” Tianna said. “When you’re inside me, I’ll tell you.”

  “All three of us will fuck you,” Blaze said hoarsely. “Can you take it?”

  “I love it when you talk dirty, princelings,” Tianna purred, cat-green eyes glowing red as deep evil lurked beneath.

  “Let’s get it done then,” Blaze said. “We’ve wanted to screw the gorgeous goddess queen from the day we laid our eyes on her. All three of us.”

  “Our ex-mate’s mating
bond will still prevent us from fucking you,” Iokul said. “You’ll have to start talking when I enter you.”

  “Get ready, boys,” Tianna said, lust emitting from her every unholy pore.

  All three dragon princes started to undress themselves. They fucking meant business! Fucking assholes and man whores! Fucking—

  Tears flowed down my eyes. I didn’t have much time.

  They were going to deliver the final blow.

  In a heartbeat, they were all naked, their hard erections huge and ready.

  They were going to fuck my fatal enemy and send me to be Furies.

  Iokul spread Tianna’s legs wider and knelt between her thighs.

  A swirl of wind tore through Iokul, and I felt its rage and violence. It was as if Iokul had just conjured some terrifying power, yet I didn’t recall him having that kind of alien magic.

  It felt familiar somehow. It felt like Elvey’s magic, and he’d once used the glamour on me when we had been in Pandemonium.

  But Iokul, who had potent ice magic, couldn’t have Elvey’s power.

  Tianna raised her torso, looking around alertly, but lay back down with a moan of pleasure as Blaze’s hands squeezed her nipples brutally and Rai palmed her swollen sex with unnecessary force.

  But the bitch seemed to like raw and rough.

  She turned her face left, then right, gazing at Rai’s and Blaze’s cocks with greed, as if she wanted to swallow them.

  She lashed out her hand to grab Rai’s massive cock, but Rai caught her wrist.

  Anger flashed in Tianna’s eyes. I’d bet no one, except Elvey, had ever turned her down.

  “The rule is that we fuck you tonight,” Rai said. “You can’t touch, but you’ll watch and enjoy.”

  Tianna looked intrigued, and the fury left her eyes.

  “You’d better deliver,” she said haughtily. “I have high expectations, and I’ve waited too long for this.”

  Iokul flashed his white teeth. “You won’t be disappointed. My brothers and I have never disappointed any women we shared.”

  Right, the assholes put me in the rank of their conquests.

  “Talk now, Tianna,” Iokul said, placing the tip of his cock at the bitch’s dripping wet entrance.

  I closed my eyes and jerked back to my own mind.

  I didn’t have the stomach to continue watching my former mates fucking another woman, especially the woman who was my most fatal, immortal enemy, the woman who had murdered my parents, cursed me, tried everything to send me back to being beasts, and destroyed so many innocent lives.

  I wept in Elvey’s arms.

  I’d hoped that we’d have more time, but time was running out. I needed to wake Elvey and say goodbye.

  He would have to stay here and continue to fight. He would take care of our people as their king.

  As I waited for the scales to appear on my body, dreading the excruciating pain that was about to tear through me, I pressed my palm against Elvey’s face. His stubble pricked against the heel of my palm. The delicious sensation only made my heart burst with grief and regret.

  Elvey leaned to my touch, opened his eyes, and smiled at me.

  “Elvey,” I choked out.

  The dragon princes had betrayed me. They’d lost to me completely. They were fucking my enemy now, but I still needed to do one more thing. I needed to stop them from finishing it, not for my sake, but for theirs.

  Once they finished the deed, they’d belong to her. She’d enslave them. It’d be worse than their masks clinging to their faces. They’d never be free.

  I would be turned to three mindless Fury beasts. I would even lose my soul to stop the Challenge before the game was over. So be it. At least their souls would be spared. There was no need for them to go down with me, even though they had been the ones to deliver the final blow.

  “I’m sorry, my love.” I brushed a kiss on my husband’s lips. “I need you to be strong. I need you to live well and continue on without me. Promise me.”

  He had to lose me again, and forever this time.

  “I’ll never go on without you,” he said quietly. “The whole universe can rot and burn for all I care. I’ll live and perish with you. But I promise you, I’ll keep you safe.”

  “They’re fucking her.” I sobbed as I rushed off bed, grabbed my robe and pulled it on. “I need to stop them. They’re naïve to think that bonding to her will benefit them. They need to know who she is and what will become of them if they give themselves to her. I’m ending the Challenge now.”

  And I would suffer any dire consequences.

  Elvey grabbed my arm and stopped my running. “Let them play it out. Give them a bit more time.”

  I widened my eyes. “Elvey, you don’t understand. They’re heading to the worst fate ever, and I’m running out of time.”

  I shrugged him off with a burst of strength and charged out of the suite.

  “Your Majesties, what’s happening?” Zembyr called as he chased after me.

  Elvey caught up with me first while our royal guards followed in a tight formation, their swords drawn.

  “Daisy, stop!” Elvey pulled me into his arms tightly despite my struggling and whispered in my ear. “I know exactly what’s happening. This has been our plan—mine and your other mates’—all along. We planned it behind your back. Now we need to return to our chamber and wait. We can’t ruin the last and most important step.”

  My eyes burned with confusion and rage. “But they’re screwing her.”

  Elvey only smiled down at me. “I know. And that’s beauty of it.”

  What?

  Fury coursed through my veins, and Elvey slanted his mouth over mine.

  “Trust me, beloved,” he said against my lips before pulling away.

  23

  Blaze the Fire Dragon

  We got her. We got that fucking viper!

  When Iokul thrust into her between her thighs, Tianna rolled her eyes to the back and moaned in pleasure, which was disgusting and disturbing at the same time.

  But in reality, we never touched her.

  I didn’t massage her breasts, Rai didn’t palm her sex, and Iokul didn’t fuck her,

  Everything that seemed to be happening occurred only in her mind.

  It was all layers upon layers of illusions. Our nudity, hard-ons, the heat in our eyes, the touching, and the fucking were all a glamour we’d artfully and masterfully planted in Tianna’s mind. Yet to our enemy, it felt every bit as real as her own lust.

  Elvey’s glamour was top-notch, and he let us borrow it freely through our mating bond. He himself also chimed in and refined it when possible. For all those centuries, he’d never let Tianna know how really powerful he was. He’d never showed her his true magic. And it paid off and gave us the upper hand against the bitch.

  We’d been comparing notes through the bond that we all shared with the same woman. And through our link to our mate, we could use each other’s powers.

  And the combination of Elvey’s shield and Iokul’s ice magic had kept us from Tianna’s mind probe. As a master deceiver, the usurper queen had never thought we could grasp the art of deception. It was incomprehensible to her that we three “simpletons” with pretty masked faces would outmaneuver her.

  We weren’t just a bunch of amateurs, and now she was paying the price for hunting our beloved mate.

  As soon as Iokul entered her in her mind, she believed that she had us all and the curse would return to Daisy.

  “Talk, Tianna,” Iokul said, pausing his thrust in the glamoured alternative reality. “So I can finish fucking you, and then my bothers can fuck both your holes.”

  Tianna panted and moaned in pleasure. She really loved his vulgarity and roughness.

  “My deepest secret,” she said, licking her bloodred lips, “is how to truly kill me.”

  I held my breath, my l heart slamming painfully against my rib cage.

  Don’t screw up, I warned myself.

  My brothers stilled like rock
s. They were also terrified of fucking up at this most crucial moment.

  “Oh yeah,” Iokul said carelessly and casually. “Afraid we’ll spill your secrets?” He grabbed Tianna’s thighs and pumped into her disgusting heat brutally, which again, only happened in her mind.

  Elvey was enhancing his glamour on the other side.

  Rai glared at Iokul while he fondled Tianna’s breasts—also a fake act, which solicited more moans from Tianna like a cat in heat.

  “How dare you provoke the woman we chose, Iokul?” Rai said. “We’ll live and die with our queen’s secrets. For such a trust, we’ll be hers, forever.” He was good at theater, too.

  I played my role by rubbing at her swollen clit, as Elvey instructed me to do. It wasn’t really happening, but that demigod was a twisted fuck.

  I spat. “I’ll run my blade through the gut of anyone who betrays our woman, our incomparable queen.”

  Tianna giggled, her mind addled by thick lust. “You already became mine when one of you entered me, my darling boys. You won’t be able to spill my secrets even if you wanted to.”

  “We would never dream of hurting a hair on your gorgeous head, lovely queen,” Iokul said in a velvet voice. “We need to hear your deepest secret now, so I can keep fucking you. My brothers are waiting to fuck your ass and mouth. Look how taut their dicks are. They’re less patient than I am.”

  In her haze of lust, the dark queen gave their cocks a heated look and licked her lips.

  “To kill me, Danaenyth will need all of her four mates’ undying faithfulness, love, and combined blood vows, but she already lost you since you’re with me, fucking me,” she said. “Five of them must be one. Only when her White Light magic draws from the combined, undivided blood power can it kill the black heart—my true heart and power.” She paused for a moment to savor our mate’s defeat in advance. “Now give all of yourselves to me, boys. Fuck me as hard as you’ve never fucked before.”