Chapter Sixty Six

Celeste's POV

"Theseus? Are you home?" I holler out as I walk through the mansion we call our home.

We live in the third realm, the god realm, where all gods and goddesses with immortality reside.

We've lived a privileged life, but it wasn't always that way.

I was an ordinary girl from a family with a mother and a father, and we lived a wild life out in the Canadian woodlands.

We had distant witches' blood in our genetics, and my mother practised witchcraft despite not being a witch.

My childhood was filled with my mother extracting the souls of one being and melding them with the soul of another, most experiments going wrong. Some were going right, but she never once made a being that lived long enough to count as a species.

That's where my desire to make a wolf-shifter came from.

One of my favourite books was about a wolf and his need to find a friend. I would read it every night.

In the woodlands around us, we're packs of wild wolves that lived beside us humans, so that's how I sum