Chapter 20 - A Slave

CELESTINA VILLARAMA’s POV

Soon after Ice had recovered thanks to Ace, we returned to the main topic of our conversation as Ace was redirected over to his own turf. “Can I give her the simplest punishment that’s available?” Ice questioned, his tone full of curiosity, but there was also a hint of compassion.

Lucas shrugged his shoulders to imply that he doesn’t care. “I believe that I don’t have to say the same thing twice, Ice,” he said with a bored expression.

Ice gave a short peek at me before he sighed. “Then…” His eyes were glistening, which made me feel like he was trying to converse with me through his mind. However, the mind link was completely impossible for the two of us. “Celestina Villarama… I hereby appoint you as one of my slaves until the contract is revoked as part of the punishment that Alpha Lucas aspires to,” he declared while his right hand was raised.

I thought that it would be as feasible as that and that it was already over with a short message coming from Ice, but that wasn’t the end.

It was only the beginning.

I received a lot of electric shocks that reverted inside my head. It was sufficient to make me feel dizzy.

‘This is why I told you to be wary of your surroundings, Celestina,’ said the wolf that resided within my soul. ‘No one’s going to come and save you this time around.’

I held onto both sides of my head as I pressed onto it, in an attempt to reduce the pain inside. “W-what did you do, Ice?” I asked.

He parted his lips as he witnessed how I was suffering because of the ‘punishment’ that he gave me. “I-I’m sorry, Celestina. Please bear with it for a little bit longer,” Ice answered as he approached me to grip onto my shoulder to support me in case that I suddenly lost my balance.

I glanced at Lucas and I thought that he would be giving me all those smug looks of his, but no — he was rather staring at me with those set of ferocious eyes that was ready to assault me any second now. Though, as seconds passed by, I kind of noticed that his attention wasn’t directed at me at all. He was looking at my necklace which he still finds irritating.

“I-If I end up giving you this necklace, will you stop torturing me like this?” I asked in a straightforward manner.

“Oh? I never told you that I wanted to have a hold of your necklace. The resemblance is what frustrates me, and up until now… there’s no f*cking way that I’ll ever forgive the moon goddess for what she committed to this realm,” he groaned, “and the outside realm as well.”

Outside realm?

Does Lucas possibly have any idea about the human world — the dimension from where I came from?

“Ack!” I shrieked when the back of my hand suddenly got an injury out of nowhere and when I looked at it, it had a mark where my blood was still gushing out from.

A mark that resembles the logo of the Silver Moon Pack.

“You’re now officially my slave, Celestina. You can’t carelessly move according to your will without informing me beforehand,” Ice warned me.

***

A couple of weeks went on without anything special happening within the pack house. I have been treated like one of them and Lucas began to welcome me as well, unlike before wherein he almost wanted to throw me out to the woods and let me die.

“Aren’t there any news regarding the new pack?” I initiated a conversation to the maids that were occupied with doing whatever their respective jobs were.

They shook their heads and only one of them bothered to give me a response. “Alpha Lucas prohibited us from making unnecessary contact with you, Lady Villarama. It would be quite disturbing for you for the next couple of days, but it’s for the best.”

My brows furrowed as I didn’t comprehend what they were trying to say. I was about to ask for clarification but they already went ahead and left me behind.

“What’s with everyone these days? All of them seem to be avoiding me,” I mumbled to myself with a short sigh.

“Celestina! Didn’t know that you were here.” Ice’s voice echoed from the second floor, and before I turned around, he was already standing in front of me. “Lucas wants to talk to you.”

“What is it this time?”

Aren’t alphas supposed to be busy? He sure does have a lot of free time to lay low.

“It’s a private matter, Celestina. He told me that you would be the first one to get to hear about it. I don’t know if he would have plans to tell the whole pack regarding that.”

I nodded my head once to show that I understood his point. I was about to head to the alpha’s office, but a hand that held my elbow stopped me from moving forward.

I gave him a confused look. “Is there anything else that you have to tell me?” I asked with a cold tone. Ever since the day that he proclaimed me as his slave, I no longer felt comfortable with his presence. I felt like he would be doing whatever that pleases him even if it would be a disgrace to me.

Ice glanced around the hallway to make sure that no one else was paying attention to the both of us before he leaned closer to me. “Don’t listen to a word that Lucas will tell you. His voice would hypnotize you. I’m sure that he has already filled his office with the scent that can make you intoxicated… and you wouldn’t notice that you’re already under his hypnosis,” Ice whispered to me.

My heart raced because of his warning. Not because I was afraid of what would happen to me. I was more scared of the possibility that Lucas was able to perceive what Ice told me just now. Recalling the fact that Lucas can read all of his pack members’ minds.

I no longer gave him a reply as I bit my lower lip. Ice also set me free from his grip.