Chapter 13

**AELLA**

Getting a call from my baby brother about a vision he had of his mate being tortured and how he needed to find her cut me deep. I have prayed many nights to the Mystic Kingdom that they would grant him a special and amazing mate. I should have been more specific. But even one who has been tortured can turn out to be the biggest blessing in disguise.

I would know. That is how I first got away from being a Demon. My whole life growing up as a Demon, I was taught how to taunt, bribe, steal and anguish others. But I didn't know why I just couldn't do it. And because of that 'incompetence' that they called it, I was traded into a trafficking ring for supernaturals.

From the time I was ten years old, I was beaten, sexually abused and physically tortured by other Demons in the trafficking ring. But luckily for me, I was able to escape while helping the others that were there with me escape. I used that experience I gained from those unfaithful years of torture to push me through t