I never wanted this, this curse. I was suppose to be one of the blessed: live a longer, healthier, and happier life with my family. But instead I was cursed. Instead, I will live a probable short life and a life full of consistent challenges and hardships. I am a disgrace to my family. They keep me prisoner. I am their embarrassment, and they would not let me go and parade around; showing their mistake. My father stole my freedom, my happiness, my respect. I am no one. I am the one that is cursed, the mistake, the abomination. But I am done. I will get my freedom. I will wait and I will endure. Then, I will steal back my freedom. I will use my 3 inch canine teeth and claws. I'm bigger than your average wolf and more dangerous. I am stronger, my senses are heightened, my endurance is top notch, and my abilities are unstoppable. This is my curse and I will be free.
My fate would no longer be dictated by the Gods and Goddesses that took shape in a world with more realms than known. I grew up in a society that shaped werewolf women inferior to feral men. Nicolai Darkling was no exception and neither was the men who raised me to be on the Werewolf council. He was a lie in the shape of a bond. A bond that many of you believed was genuine, and many of you thought I should have accepted.
A rejection in a mate bond was never taken lightly. A bond the Kings and Queens of realms and ruins got wrong.
There have always been two sides to one coin. The 'head' and the 'tail.' Some saw it as the one person owning one coin. Four coins, and only one lands on the good. The gods threw four coins on my fate. Or so I originally believed. Everyone else got one coin. So, why the fuck was mine an outlier in every realm?
Nicolai Darkling, Elias Cardinal, Alastair Fawn...and Creed Legion. Who I now knew was Prince Creed Emberflame. Two of them harmed me more than I thought possible. Three of them are purebred royals who used me for their own self-righteous needs. Four claim to be mated to me. And only one of them is my true mate.
My true name is Celestine Leviathan, House of Leviathan. Werewolf. Fire elemental. Survivor. The Houses in the elemental realm were demolished to form the four seasons and high kingdom.