Found by the Lycan King by Natalie Winter

Chapter 84

Zenovia

“Change? In what way?”

“I would have told you, but Callahan is the King and he wants to do it when he feels the time is right. I only hope you awaken your wolf today, so I don’t have to be so tight-lipped around you.”

She said, and it somehow made me feel both anxious and a bit relieved.

“Are you going to sacrifice me in some ritual?” I asked and was rewarded with a chuckle.

“Callahan does not believe in rituals or sacrifices. Hell, he does not even believe in the Moon Goddess anymore. So you don’t have to worry about that.”

“But why?” I blurted out.

We all were creatures of the Moon Goddess. Selene had bestowed us with a power to shift into our wolves after we reached a certain age, granting us inhuman strength and power.

We all worshipped her so it was odd to hear that the King, the person who ruled us all, did not believe in our deity.

It was said that many years ago, Selene was born as an unwanted child to a Greater God, who ignored her for his other offsprings who were far more stronger and powerful. Selene used everything she could to please her father, but he would always turn a blind eye to her.

One such day some lesser gods united against her to eradicate the weakling, so she fought with them and left the Kingdom to make one where no one could reach her, high in the sky.

The moon became her throne and kingdom and the first being who she saw after claiming her throne was an ordinary

wolf.

Legend says that she blessed the wolf with her strength and that was how our race was born.

Of course, there were many such stories told to us when we were young, so I had heard some variation of the same story in every single one.

But I had not heard of a single person not worshipping or believing in her, so it was quite strange.

I waited for Drusilla to answer me, but she pretended to not listen to me. She instead walked past me and stood in front of the open wardrobe looking at the clothes.

“Hmm, we have to find something that will show how strong you are”

“I don’t really see the need to dress up” I made the same argument I had shared with Maria, but Drusilla shook her head.

“Sorry. King’s orders”

I made a face, but Drusilla stuck her tongue out and began pulling out a few dresses for me to wear.

“Hmm, this looks too formal,” she said while picking up a business suit.

“Nah, this one’s too chic” she said, dismissing another, and I kept waiting for her to arrive at a conclusion.

When she had thrown almost a dozen of dresses on the bed with a frown, I raised a hand.

I suggest

on,” she said while still shuffling through the wardrobe.

I wear something that looks like

shuffling and looked at me with an amused smile. “As in?”

time I manage to completely shift. So, it would

of stars….”

smile seemed to widen as I vividly imagined the dress, and I stopped abruptly.

I blabber a lot?”

“Not really”

in the wardrobe. To be honest, I did not

of the time, so I did not even bother checking through the rest of the

stuff.

replied, “Now, you have to close your eyes.

I don’t look

me, you

ensure I would not cheat. For the next hour or

which she styled my hair, dabbed my wrists with some perfume and even painted my

had never been someone who knew the basics of make-up or dressing elegantly, so I was curious to see what she was doing, but Drusilla didn’t want me to look until she had the final look

in me as the day ended and the sun dipped

Some found their wolf when the first rays of the moonlight fell on them, while others took a bit

a silent prayer to the moon goddess to help me find my wolf. Mentally, I also prepared

when my fingers began to tie a knot with the silky

so it felt a little off. But the dress she had chosen for

stood like a mannequin as she pushed me through the dress, my hair going askew as she buttoned the seams and pulled up the zips

be satiny soft. It did feel snug and not as if my insides were being

I asked impatiently and Drusilla said in a garbled voice, “Soon.”

curler in her hands, for

an eternity, she let out a huffed breath and I felt her sag into the

mattress.

to ensure Cal pays me

the mask off my eyes at some point, but had turned

are we done? Can I open my

and I wondered what

Biting my lower lip, I opened my eyes

front of me,

up at the ceiling, and she seemed to be having

“Dru!! What’s wrong?”

gown,

small chair she had made me sit in. I almost tripped over the folds of the but somehow managed to reach her.

was sitting cross-legged on the bed, and her head was

I tried shaking her, but she was still staring at the ceiling as if something had

call for help when she got out of her trance