Chapter 4 Home #3
What Hera showed me in the pictures and that I will be Aylin’s Mate.
Hera told me not to mention being Queen yet as that part of my destiny is still being written.
“Okay Celest here is what you need to know, and I’m sorry but some of this might be painful to hear.
You, my dear, are the long-lost Princess of the Galaxy.
You were brought to us by the Moon Goddess herself and left here to be raised by me.
On the night you were to be brought here, the King and Queen who are actually Alpha and Luna of the Bloodmoon pack, came to this inn for a planned dinner.
They, however, had different plans and started a fight between all the people in the inn and their guards.
The fighting dragged on, and the Alpha snuck upstairs to this very room and took you from the cradle.
He hid you under his cape and ran out of the inn with his Luna following behind him.
They are werewolves Celest, and knew that the lycan people would return, and that you were to be the only female lycan.
Which we think made them fear for their future.
No one knew you had been taken at first because the Queen had a weapon that had disturbed the Goddess’ link to me.
The Moon Goddess, your mother, told us you were to be born at 10pm and were to be brought to me shortly after.
The Moon Goddess told us to leave a room empty for you and she would bring you once she was ready.
When I went upstairs to this room, which was going to be your nursery, the door, which had been engraved with a moon and stars and the name Celest, was open.
When I entered the room it was no longer empty.
There was a bed with blue and purple bedding, two tan rocking chairs, and a white and purple ruffled cradle in the shape of a moon.
The ceiling is covered with glowing, twinkling stars and when the Moon Goddess was to speak with you, they were supposed to light up in the shape of her face.
We never got to experience her presence.
When I walked over to the cradle, it was empty, I knew it was them.
I tried to speak out but I was told by my husband and close friends that no one would believe me because their Luna had been pregnant.
It could put my family and I in jeopardy if I spoke about their Luna with no proof of her actions, especially since she was pregnant at the time.
I don’t know what she did with the baby she carried.
We watched you grow up from a distance knowing that once you turned five you would find your wolf and learn the truth and hopefully one day return to me, so I could teach you how to be a Luna and how to lead your people, because you my dear are the rightful ruler of Pleiades.
Not just Pleiades Celest, all six lands.
When our intel informed us of your first shift, they were amazed by your beauty and hoped you would run away.
But when they came back and told us that the Alpha Markus and Luna Marcella were going to stop you from shifting and destroy your power, I thought I would never get to raise you or teach you in the proper ways.
We continued watching from a distance and noticed you never shifted again.
We hoped that one day you would get out but when you turned 18 and Aylin couldn’t feel you through your mating bond, we knew something bad happened.”
Zeta just stared at me and waited for me to talk.
I didn’t know what to say, this was way too much to handle for one person, “Zeta, this is a lot of information. I didn’t even know werewolves existed let alone lycan people. I didn’t learn about any of this in my lessons. Now you’re telling me that not only am I lycan,
but the only female and I have an already pre-determined mate, and I am Luna, which is what exactly? I’m exhausted and all I can think of is how I am going to survive. Can we talk about this later?
I just want some time to process and think about all of this new information” Zeta nodded her head and told me to go downstairs and find her once I was ready to talk, and not to worry about the room, I wouldn’t have to pay for anything.
She walked over to the dresser and grabbed a small box and placed it on the table beside my chair.
We stood together then I walked with Zeta to the door.
She turned to me and bowed, I slowly closed the door as she walked away with a look of sorrow on her face.
I sit in a chair facing outside again, how can she say I have already shifted when I have no memory of that.
Plus, how could they have been poisoning me when I did all the cooking?
I know that I didn’t serve the food which would give the staff time to poison it, but I thought I could at least be safe with them?
Was my entire household in on it? I guess that would make sense since they never helped me.
When I was chased out yesterday no one tried to save me.
I reach over and open the box Zeta left on the table.
There is a necklace inside. It is gold and there is a small infinity symbol in the middle.
On the inside of the lid there is a note.
“To the destined luna, with love, Rigel.”
My hands seem to move on their own as I move my hair to the side and put it on.
My mind is going a million miles an hour right now.
How could I be someone so important when I felt like a fly on a wall?