Finally, the day that looked like two years passing rather than one day eventually came to an end and I exhaled a sigh of relief at finally having my privacy. However, nothing could have prepared me for the shock I felt when I read through the letter. Basically, the council led by Alpha Magnus Blackwood, had warned my dad of the threat my wolf and I posed to the entire werewolf community.
The more I read the letter, the more confused and angrier I got. However, something I saw in the letter gave me pause. Because in the letter, Alpha Magnus warned my father seriously to make sure that I wasn't beaten so much that I gave in to the rage inside me. The same rage I felt coiling in my stomach at that specific moment.
According to the letter, the bonds they had placed on my wolf were only going to be broken by intense emotional pressure. Which sort of made me understand why my dad never asked his body guards to beat me up. I had always wondered why my dad never gave them the order to beat me up given how much he seemed to despise my very existence.
The reason he also left me at the mercy of my sister's goons was because he knew they could not really do any kind of damage on me that would necessitate the kind of pain that merged my physical and emotional energies together which would have freed my wolf.
I honestly had no idea how to feel about what I was reading. It didn't also explain why my sister seemed to hate me so much. Could it be because of this letter? It wasn't absurd to think that my dad might have shown her this letter. I didn't know when tears started falling down my cheeks on to the screen of my phone.
"What could we have done in our previous life for the council to be so afraid of us that they ended up binding you and preventing us from meeting each other till now?" I couldn't help asking Ace with a tremor in my voice. "I don't know either, Celeste. Although, I have come to understand that people tend to fear or hate something they don't understand". She answered me sadly.
"But I don't want you to worry so much about this for now, we just have to pretend for a little longer till the night of the debutante ball, I have a feeling we would meet our mate that fateful night". She said, trying to cheer me up. "How do you know that, Ace?" I asked with a slight tilt of my head. She chuckled and asked, "haven't you ever wondered how you were able to know some things that nobody had mentioned to you before?"
"Huh, I never actively thought about why I knew those things, I thought everyone could do that", I answered while scratching my head at this second mystery of the night. "No, dear, you can see the future and the past, because I was bound earlier, the visions were few and far in between and also weren't very clear but now that I can at least talk to you, you'd get to have more visions with more clarity". She explained to me. Tonight was shaping up to be a night of revelations and I was starting to get dizzy from the information overload.
"Try and get some sleep dear one, you look dead on your feet. What you just need to understand is that you're no longer alone and we will figure this out together, okay?" "Alright Ace, thanks for being here", I said as I got comfy on the bed and drifted off to a fitful sleep. I wonder what the future holds for me with these strange powers and people wanting to keep me bound for reasons unknown to me, guess I would find out at the appointed time.
I woke up and went about my day as I would have normally which was harder than I expected. Each time I saw my dad or my sister, I had to grit my teeth and be as pleasant as possible even if it killed me. Since I couldn't look either of them in the eye as I was apparently beneath them, they couldn't see the hatred shining in my eyes that day.
I kept mute and just did my chores as quickly as possible since I knew Seraphina was looking for me to trip up so she could send one of her goons on me in a bid to disfigure my face so I wouldn't look as good on the night of the ball. Knowing her plan made it easier for me to avoid being in the same vicinity as her, which was easier since the house allocated to the alpha was pretty spectacular.
It helped that I had Ace in my ear telling me to hold on that our mate would soon arrive and take us away from this pack. However, I had a bad feeling that the night would probably not go as planned and I didn't understand why I felt that way. Ace reassured me that even if the night didn't go as expected, I wouldn't have to face the disappointment alone.
Knowing that I had someone in my corner rooting for me helped me cheer up more. She didn't let me slack off on my work-out, though, she just kept reminding me that something big was coming and I had to be prepared to face anything. Seeing that I didn't have the excuse of friends to hide behind, I just went along with her instructions which helped me clear my mind also.
Thankfully, almost everyone was involved in the preparation for the debutante ball so I had the gym to myself most days. This helped me build my endurance without people getting suspicious of my sudden increased strength. One beautiful thing started happening the more I pushed myself. I started to partially shift and I didn't know I would be so excited to see my claws as it meant that my increasing physical strength was giving Ace strength to break more of her chains.