One Day, I Woke Up A Werewolf novel Chapter 24

Hailey's POV

"What happened?" I say when my dad wakes me up from what feels like a long sleep.

I sit up from my bed and he hands me a cup of tea before sitting on the chair beside the bed I slept on.

"You don't remember?" Theo asks me and I shake my head no. To be honest, I do remember. I just need him to confirm that these flashes playing in my head aren't made up and that he was there, with me when all of animal to human shifting happened.

"Hailey, I need you to know that had I known you were my daughter, I would have been in your life from the beginning." Theo confesses.

"You wouldn't have been so confused about last night or early this morning. You would have been born in to it instead of wrecking your brain trying to make sense of it all right now, at your age. I'm so sorry this is your reality right now but I'm here and I'm going to help you through it." He says to me.

"So, you really turned in to a wolf? I'm not going crazy?" I ask him.

"So did you." He tells me.

"How? I mean we read about werewolves, watch movies about them but how is this my reality? How is this even real?" I ask him, Theo chuckling at my questions.

"Werewolves have always been around. We just hide in plain sight, as humans but we make sure we don't live amongst them. We have our own communities, far away from humans." He says.

"Like this town for instance. It's a werewolf town and you, my dear, are attending a werewolf school." Theo tells me and I gasp.

"Wait. You mean the.." I say before snippets of Azuri calling me little human play in my head.

"Are they all, you know, like me?" I ask him.

"There are some humans but I mean not a lot but there are some. Mostly boarding school students, no humans live around these parts. We make sure of that. The only humans you will find at your school, will be girls not boys." He says to me.

"Why is that?" I ask.

"Oh man." Theo says before drinking up his coffee. He takes a second to answer me, trying to find the words.

"We call our females, Sheras. Female wolves are born to be warriors of the community they live in. They fight the wars and protect the children while the males find their soul mates in human girls. Female wolves also can't have children, we don't know why because a normal wolf animal can but our women can't and that is why we find love with humans to create the next generation." He explains.

"Will I have to be a warrior?" I ask him.

That would be devastating for whatever community I have to fight for. I'm the number one coward. I don't fight and now I'd have to protect people?! Oh no.

"No. You are alpha born and my only child. It has never been done but if you succeed, you may take over from me. However, because you are indeed a wolf, that means you can't have children and you may never find your true love." He says, emphasizing his words.

"Oh..." I say, Jaxon coming to mind. The memory of me breaking up with him playing in my head.

"Hailey, you have a wolf inside of you. You need to connect with her and form a bond because she's in you for life. From now on, you'll be living with me here because I'll be training you and your wolf. Being alpha born means you possess a strength far greater than any female warrior but you need combat skills to truly put that strength to use." He says before standing up and walking towards my door.

"Combat skills?" I ask and he just smiles at me.

"This is your room. Feel free to do whatever you want with it but for now, please freshen up. I have brought some people from my community that will help me get you ready for the outside world." Theo says to me, my eyes bulging out at the thought of seeing strangers right now.

He walks out and without giving notice, a young woman walks in and closes the door.

"Hi. My name is Miriam, I am the beta's daughter and I am 16." The girl stranger that just waltzed in to my room says to me.

"Beta? As in second in command?" I ask and she nods her head yes right before I break out in laughter.

Years and years of reading about these creatures and now one stands before me to tell me they are actually real.

"I'm sorry. I just, this is too much." I say between laughs.

"The alpha needs you to go shower and change clothes. Today you will meet the important members of our pack, including the future beta that will be your second in command." Miriam says to me. I stop laughing to look at her and she doesn't flinch.

"Who will be my second in command?" I ask Miriam.

"My brother. He is not allowed in your room at this moment so I am here to help you freshen up before you meet anyone." She says before placing black clothes on my bed and walking towards another door, which is now my bathroom. I hear water running and see that as my que to get out of bed.

Miriam walks out of the bathroom as soon as I walk in, closing the door too.

"Okay Hailey. Clearly this is serious." I say to myself..

I look around the bathroom, going through drawers and drawers, seeing that Theo got all my toiletries in bulk and the realization hit me.

The minute he found out I was his daughter, meaning I'd become this, he had to prepare for it.

Did my mother know? Was she aware that she was sleeping with a wolf? And now here I am, breaking real bones to turn in to an animal?

"A werewolf. We are very special species.' The voice in my head goes off again.

'Hello once again. I've been waiting ages to be unlocked and let out of the cage I was in. So I will be here, talking to you most times of the day and goddess willing, you will shift and let me have a run in the woods from time to time or I will take over myself. I need to run so let's meet these creeps and get it over with.' The voice in my head says.

"Adira right?" I say out loud forgetting there's a girl in my room waiting on me.

'Yes!' She responds.

''How long have you been locked inside my body?'' I ask.

'Since you were born. Being away from our father prohibited us from coming in to our wolves but after the death of your other father, we met our real father. His wolf called out to mine and I was sort of woken from my permanent slumber but I was sort of awake thanks to our mate.' Adira says to me.

"Mate? We share friends?" I ask in shock.

'No silly! Our soulmate!' She says as if I knew.

"What?" I ask in confusion.

'We met him and he like revived you. The sparks that you feel when he touches you or you touch him. The need to risk it all for him even though you don't know what tomorrow holds. When he messes up but you want to apologize and make everything right because you can't imagine life without him. You know who I'm talking about.' Adira says to me.

My eyes bulge out as Jaxon comes to mind.

'Yip! That's the one! You owe him a thank you for letting me out.' She says.

"Hold on. Wait a minute." I say but Adira interrupts me.