Crowning Destiny (The Fae Chronicles Book 7) Read online

  Table of Contents

  Crowning Destiny

  Dedication

  More Books by Amelia Hutchins

  Reading Order

  Warning

  Crowning Destiny

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-One

  Chapter Thirty-Two

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Chapter Thirty-Four

  About the Author

  Crowning Destiny

  Crowning Destiny

  The Fae Chronicles Book Seven

  Copyright © June 2020 Amelia Hutchins

  Kindle Edition

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events or locales is entirely coincidental.

  This book in its entirety and in portions is the sole property of Amelia Hutchins.

  Crowning Destiny Copyright©2020 by Amelia Hutchins. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic, paperback or mechanical without the express written permission of the author. The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials.

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  Authored By: Amelia Hutchins

  Cover Art Design: Eerilyfair Design

  Copy edited by: Melissa Burg

  Edited by: E & F Indie Services

  Published by: Amelia Hutchins

  Published in (United States of America)

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  Dedication

  For everyone just trying to get through this crazy world, you got this. This world is a scary place, and it’s my pleasure and honor to allow you to escape into the world I created on a whim. I hope you stick around for the other series coming, and to see old friends as we me need new ones. Some endings are only the beginning to new adventures. Thank you for your support, and your unwavering loyalty. My tribe, my people, and my world.

  More Books by Amelia Hutchins

  Legacy of the Nine Realms

  Flames of Chaos

  Ashes of Chaos 2020

  The Fae Chronicles

  Fighting Destiny

  Taunting Destiny

  Escaping Destiny

  Seducing Destiny

  Unraveling Destiny

  Embracing Destiny

  Crowning Destiny

  The Elite Guards

  A Demon’s Dark Embrace

  Claiming the Dragon King

  A Demon’s Plaything

  The Winter Court

  A Guardian’s Diary

  Darkest Before Dawn

  Death before Dawn

  Midnight Rising TBA 2020

  Playing with Monsters series

  (Part of the Fae Chronicles)

  Playing with Monsters

  Sleeping with Monsters

  Becoming his Monster

  Last Monster Book TBA 2020

  Wicked Knights series

  Oh, Holy Knight

  If She’s Wicked

  Book Three, TBA

  Midnight Coven Books

  Forever Immortal

  Immortal Hexes

  Wicked Hexes

  Midnight Coven

  Finished Serial Series

  Tempted by Fae

  E.V.I.E. 13 Days of Slaying October 2020

  Bulletproof Damsel

  Reading Order

  If you’re following the series for the Fae Chronicles, Elite Guards, and Monsters, reading order is as follows.

  Fighting Destiny

  Taunting Destiny

  Escaping Destiny

  Seducing Destiny

  A Demon’s Dark Embrace

  Playing with Monsters

  Unraveling Destiny

  Sleeping with Monsters

  Claiming the Dragon King

  Oh, Holy Knight

  Becoming his Monster

  A Demon’s Plaything

  The Winter Court

  If She’s Wicked

  Embracing Destiny

  Crowning Destiny

  Warning

  Warning: This book is dark. It’s sexy, hot, and intense. The author is human, as you are. Is the book perfect? It’s as perfect as I could make it. Are there mistakes? Probably, then again, even New York Times top published books have minimal mistakes because, like me, they have human editors. There are words in this book that won’t be found in the standard dictionary because they were created to set the stage for a paranormal-urban fantasy world. Words in this novel are common in paranormal books and give better descriptions to the action in the story than can be found in standard dictionaries. They are intentional and not mistakes.

  About the hero: chances are you may not fall instantly in love with him, that’s because I don’t write men you instantly love; you grow to love them. I don’t believe in instant love. I write flawed, raw, caveman-like assholes that eventually let you see their redeeming qualities. They are aggressive, assholes, one step above a caveman when we meet them. You may not even like him by the time you finish this book, but I promise you will love him by the end of this series.

  About the heroine: There is a chance that you might think she’s a bit naïve or weak,
but then again, who starts out as a badass? Badass women are a product of growth, and I am going to put her through hell, and you get to watch her come up swinging every time I knock her on her ass. That’s just how I do things. How she reacts to the set of circumstances she is put through may not be how you as the reader, or I, as the author would react to that same situation. Everyone reacts differently to circumstances and how Synthia responds to her challenges, is how I see her as a character and as a person.

  I don’t write love stories: I write fast-paced, knock you on your ass, make you sit on the edge of your seat wondering what is going to happen next books. If you’re looking for cookie-cutter romance, this isn’t for you. If you can’t handle the ride, unbuckle your seatbelt and get out of the roller-coaster car now. If not, you’ve been warned. If nothing outlined above bothers you, carry on and enjoy the ride!

  Crowning Destiny

  Chapter One

  Synthia

  This was all wrong. Everything seemed off and backward, and nothing made any sense. I had no memory of ever entering this flipping farting world of fairies, but there was no denying that we were in Faery.

  A group of fae men stood on the far side of the room, speaking quietly amongst themselves, glancing at me every so often, while Adam and I sat alone at a table in the corner. He’d spent the last two hours trying to explain things for the third time, but he was talking a bunch of nonsense that couldn’t possibly be true.

  It was evident to me that he had been mind-fucked by the fae, and they were using him to turn me. That was the only explanation I could come up with to justify the batshit crazy story he was expecting me to believe.

  I began to tune Adam out as my gaze slid to the largest fae male, who seemed to be watching every single thing I did with interest. It both bothered me and made my body heat in ways it never had before. I’d felt excited with Adrian, and still did, but this male? He dripped pheromones that made me ache with merely the heated gazes that he slid over my body.

  If I moved, those onyx and gold-sparkled depths followed as if I was the prey he was hunting. Worse than that, my body responded as if it wanted him to pursue me, and that pissed me off. Like that fairy-farting ogre had tied an invisible string to my vagina, and as he pulled it, I quivered with the need for him to pull harder. It was disgusting. I felt my cheeks flush, and I frowned as a deadly smile graced his mouth. My eyes widened, and my nipples perked up as if they needed to be sure he’d noticed they existed. Bodies were dumb, treacherous things that took joy in betraying us. Dismissing the fae, I turned my attention back to Adam.

  “We need to find Larissa and Adrian and get out of here now,” I whispered. “Nothing you’ve said makes sense, Adam. We’re in danger, big danger. Like, if we don’t leave right now, we’re going to be Happy Meals for these assholes.” Adam leaned back in his chair and sighed. “Why aren’t you panicking? Help me get us out of here, and stop lying,” I muttered, glancing at the golden-eyed fae who watched me with his intense stare. I hated his sexy face and the power that rolled off him in turbulent waves. It was rolling through me, creating a deep, unsated ache that pulsed until I was afraid I would burst into spontaneous orgasms and make a total ass out of myself.

  The prick had yet to take his eyes off me, and it felt like he knew me in a really intimate way. If that was the case, it meant I might also be compromised. I’d woken up in a field clothed in a flimsy-ass dress with Adam holding me in the middle of a fantasy meadow, complete with a castle in the backdrop, and no memory of how I had gotten there.

  My boobs had been pushed up so high while being held in place by the bodice I was wearing that they waved hello to the asshole that wouldn’t stop staring at me. It was very possible I had been in a balls-deep kind of compromised situation so horrible that I blocked it out.

  I had never worn shit like this. I had standards, and an outfit that exposed my body parts wasn’t on the list of things I’d ever allow myself to wear, no matter what mission the guild had planned for us. I didn’t care if they wanted me to strip down naked, they could suck my butt before I’d knowingly do anything of the sort.

  Unless it was life or death, my moral compass directed my decisions. Considering that this was actually a life or death situation…If stripping down to my birthday suit meant getting my team out of here, I’d damn well do it. I just hoped that wasn’t what it would take, but considering the hungry gaze that remained locked with mine, I was sweating bullets that it might come down to that, or worse.

  “Syn, a lot has happened.” Adam fidgeted uncomfortably as he rubbed the back of his neck, studying me.

  “Like what?” I leaned back in my chair, mirroring Adam’s posture as I examined his body language, noting how nervous and uneasy he was at the moment. “Why do you look like someone died?”

  “Someone did die, Syn,” he whispered through thick emotions that caused his Adam’s apple to bob up and down as he swallowed hard. “It was Lari.”

  Tears pricked the back of my eyes, burning to be released, and I shook my head. I cleared my throat, ignoring the vise-grip that clenched around my heart, squeezing it painfully. Adam shook his head, scrubbing his hand down his face while he adjusted in the chair.

  “That’s not funny at all, Adam,” I hissed as tears ran down my cheeks.

  “Syn, we took a mission to help the fae, and things happened. Some bad and good things have occurred in the last year. Good things like you’re a mother. You have three children.” He’d lost his mind. My brows shot up as I gave him a deadpan stare, and his eyes narrowed.

  “I think I would know if I’d had babies, especially three. Does this body look like it’s given birth to anything?” I frowned deeply, pulling the gaudy dress I wore out and looking down at my flat stomach, with not even one single stretch mark marring it.

  Yup, Adam was compromised. I let the bodice snap back into place, studying him carefully, noting the way he had spoken with conviction. He believed what he was saying to be true, which meant he was feeding me whatever story the fae had wanted him to sell. Great, why was it always when I needed my team to be on-point that they got distracted and acted like a bunch of cats rolling around in a field of catnip?

  “You have been brainwashed, Adam. You can shut your fat mouth because I don’t believe anything that rolls off your tongue. Stop feeding me whatever it is that they want you to say. Lari isn’t dead; she can’t be,” I hissed angrily, glaring at him as his mouth opened and closed repeatedly before he sat up and shook his head.

  Heavy footfalls sounded on the stone floor outside in the hallway, and I turned slowly, watching as a new male entered the room and then paused. “Oh, thank God,” I whispered breathlessly, standing and rushing to Adrian.

  Throwing myself at him, I wrapped my arms around him and claimed his mouth with urgency. He spun his head in the direction of the golden-eyed fae and chuckled against my lips. He pulled me closer, kissing me deeply, groaning as my tongue pushed into his mouth, and a moan slipped from my throat.

  His arms lowered to rest on my waist, and his mouth drew away from mine as he studied me curiously. I stepped back, holding his hands in mine, and smiled into his pretty turquoise eyes, taking in the roguish charm that had drawn me to him. I took a step forward and leaned against his ear, whispering softly so as not to be heard.

  “We need to get out of here now.” My cheek brushed against his 5 o’clock shadow, and my nipples hardened with the memory of how it felt between my thighs as he’d taken me to heaven.

  Adrian pulled back slightly and looked at me, confused. “Adam has been brainwashed, and I think the fae are using mind control to make him tell me things that can’t possibly be true, Adrian. I need your help to get Adam and me out of here before they eat us.”

  I nodded my head in the direction of the fae as I slid down his body, peering into the turquoise depths that studied me like I’d lost my mind. He nar
rowed his eyes, glanced at Adam, then the fae, and I frowned. His expression was filled with pain as my body rested flush against his.

  “You broke her fucking brain, asshole?” he asked angrily, spinning toward the golden-eyed fae, the one the others had called Ryder. “What the fuck did you do to her?”

  “Balls! You’re compromised too?” I frowned worriedly, moving back further, turning to glare murderously at the male named Ryder, who crossed his arms. He glared at Adrian like he wanted to kill him. Adrian met his glare head-on, and I shook my head vigorously.

  “A lot has happened, Adrian,” Ryder snorted. “None of it good, I’m afraid.”

  “No. Don’t look into his eyes. Look at me, baby,” I said softly, pulling his face back to mine. My lips brushed against his, and I winced, stepping back as I tasted coppery blood on my lip. My hand lifted to his mouth, holding it open, and I stared at twin incisors. I pulled my hand back and slapped him hard, the noise echoing through the room as my heart thundered against my ribcage. “You have a major dental issue!” A smile curved his generous lips as his head tilted, watching me, so I slapped him again, harder this time.

  “Yeah, I’m a vampire, Synthia.” Adrian watched me with wide eyes as tears filled mine, and denial ripped from my lips in the form of a sob. “No. No, angel eyes. Don’t do that. Don’t cry.” He reached for me, and I flinched, recoiling from his touch. “Fuck, a little help here?” Everyone in the room just stared at him, as if no one wanted to intervene.