Chapter 55 - Supreme Sorceress

Telling Madeline the man that tried to kill her was her father without any logical proof or reasoning would be a daunting task.

She still had the perception she was human. That she had been one all her life.

So informing her she wasn't everything but ordinary? It wasn't something Xavier was looking forward to.

It wasn't his place. He and Madeline were friends. Nothing more. 

And who in their right mind would tell their friend they'd known for a couple of weeks that her father was the man that tried to kill her? Certainly not Xavier.

Therefore, there was one option left. 

To get Emilio to tell her.

Yes, Madeline would totally believe the man that tried to kill her and constantly threatened to find and hunt her down was her father. She would've believed it without a second doubt. Totally. 

There wouldn't be any misunderstandings or doubts. It was all just… 

Xavier sighed, knowing this would end in pure tragedy. 

From discovering he was her soulmate to finding out her father was the ex-alpha of Eudora… not to mention she was at the brink of death days ago… 

The cave was designed for anyone to leave weakened. Madeline had nearly died because of it. 

And she never blamed a thing on him. 

She was brave. 

Perhaps she got it from her mother. 

"Cornelia."

"How do you explain Cornelia to her?"

Emilio looked like he was close to passing out.

"Things were much simpler when all we had to do was duel to figure out whether or not I stayed as alpha or you took over and replaced me. And now this."

Xavier narrowed his eyes. Did this man really have a death wish?

Had he not been… accommodating enough? 

Emilio wasn't supposed to be here, he was supposed to be stuck to the confines of his cave. 

But no, he escaped. 

"Emilio," Xavier called, taking a seat on his chair. 

Emilio looked upwards, refusing to meet Xavier's piercing gaze. 

Cornelia… how could he explain her?

They weren't mates. They had a love that was forbidden. 

This was all crazy enough, suddenly discovering he had a daughter by the man that stole his title of alpha and banished him from Eudora.

Their whirlwind love story? It was even crazier. 

Poor Madeline, having to grasp werewolves existing and roaming the world, and now having to suddenly be told he was her biological father. 

She hadn't known yet, but no one wanted to tell her. 

Now, returning to Cornelia. 

Cornelia Delcour… Madeline's biological mother if this prophecy was proven to be right after all. 

No, she wasn't a werewolf like Emilio was. If that were the case, Madeline would've been a werewolf as well. She'd possess similar powers to the other werewolves, with a couple of special abilities others couldn't perform, but something along those lines. 

However, Cornelia was special. She was the all-powerful, supreme sorceress. 

Yes, sorceress. 

She was a witch. 

With Cornelia being a sorceress and Emilio having blood from the descendant of the first ever werewolf, what did that make Madeline?

The first in the entire world to be born with that of a witch's blood as well as a werewolf's. 

She wasn't transformed into a werewolf. She was born with werewolf blood. From a powerful descendant that happened to be Emilio. 

Xavier had his theories and his assumptions, but he never got to proving them or testing them out. He wasn't sure why he never did, it was simply something he felt was best. 

'My soulmate's a witch and a werewolf,' Xavier said in his head, realizing how incredulous it seemed. 

Of course she had to be of powerful blood. It explained why she could see through the veil and pass the barrier without any problems. It was likely also why she managed to leave the cave without any qualms. 

In theory, witch blood would be able to tamper with the spell cast to keep Emilio in the cave. It was possible. But, it would drain the energy of whoever left, hence why he found Madeline on the brink of death when she escaped from Emilio. 

As things began slowly piecing themselves together, it made more and more sense. 

Xavier wondered why he hadn't looked into it more or realized it any sooner. 

Like her father, Madeline could create barriers. 

But one problem remained. 

And that was how she had no powers as far as they knew.

Perhaps she hadn't yet unlocked them.

Or perhaps… She was born powerless with the small exception of being able to create barriers. 

No, that couldn't be possible. Or was it?

There was no book or scripture written regarding witch-werewolf hybrids. There wasn't a term coined either. Nothing was known about them. 

For all Xavier knew, Madeline was the first of her kind. 

And the worst part was, Madeline didn't know a thing.

Xavier said to Emilio, "You need to clean up."

Emilio looked downwards before he looked back up and nodded slowly.

"I do."

"And you need to figure out how to tell Madeline before it's back in your cave," Xavier said, his words ice cold. 

This was enough madness for one day.

Emilio had escaped for a couple hours and now look at what he brought up.

'You should've just killed him,' a voice in his head said, stating the obvious.

'Why did you have to show him mercy? Who knows, maybe that's how Madeline was--'

Xavier stopped. He rather not think about that. 

Emilio chuckled weakly, "Back to the cave?"

"You really are sending me back to that hellhole huh. I can't shmooze my way out of this or challenge you to another duel?" Emilio asked. 

The old Emilio would have never admitted defeat. He would've challenged Xavier to a rematch and made sure Xavier regretted ever crossing him.

Meanwhile, the current Emilio seemed slightly hurt Xavier had already decided to send him back. 

Perhaps people did change.

He may have seemed like he changed, but a tiger simply couldn't change its stripes. One couldn't change their nature no matter how long it had been.

Or could it?