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Evelyn did not pick up her phone, ignoring the vibrations that rattled the coated canvas of her expensive designer bag while she rode in the limousine with Ciel.

"Where are we going? I really should have taken Mina with us!" Ciel exclaimed nervously.

Evelyn scoffed. "Nonsense, it's good for children to learn independence from an early age. That's how I raised my son. Look at Sebastian! Has it hurt him?"

Ciel scowled at her mother-in-law just as the black limousine pulled up to a very prestigious-looking day spa.

"Come along, my dear." Evelyn commanded Ciel as she swept her long, slender legs out of the shiny, black vehicle.

Before they left the mansion, Evelyn had taken the time to change into a pair of extravagant, over-priced designer jeans, a tight, pale pink shirt, and a white leather jacket, paired perfectly of course with yet another set of sky high heels.

"You'll feel much better after this." Evelyn assured Ciel.

The bluenette omega got out of the limousine with her mother-in-law and followed Evelyn into the building.

Ciel had never been to a spa before, although Sebastian had ordered them in-room massages on their luxurious vacations.

Sebastian had always warned Ciel previously to never visit spas or manicure salons. Sebastian had told his omega that if she wanted something done, like a manicure, then he would hire a specialist to come directly to the house.

Sebastian wanted to see exactly what was being done to his mate and who was doing it…...he didn't trust just anyone with his precious kitten.

But Evelyn didn't seem that concerned as she strutted boldly into the spa and stuck a pose just as a tall, dark-haired man quickly walked over.

"Evelyn Michaelis, mi bella! Have you finally returned to grace my salon?!" The man exclaimed with a happy smile.

Evelyn held her hand out to him and he kissed it as if she were some sort of queen. "Alessandro, how many years has it been?! I came by today to let you make me feel beautiful again."

"Mi bella," Alessandro purred sickeningly, "You are always beautiful!"

A normal woman would have blushed but Evelyn just smirked triumphantly at the compliment.

Ciel frowned.

"Oh! I nearly forgot! I have a guest with me today." Evelyn said, stepping to the side so Alessandro could glimpse Ciel, who was standing shyly behind her.

"Oh? Who's this?" Alessandro blinked at the bluenette.

Ciel could feel the man's eyes pouring over her, taking in each detail and silently making decisions, in the same way that a mechanic eyed a car he was about to repair.

"I'm afraid this is my poor daughter-in-law. Look at her! Make her into something, will you?" Evelyn asked Alessandro with a disappointed sigh as she looked sadly at Ciel.

"Mi Bella," Alessandro said, turning back to Evelyn to smile warmly at her. "I will make the girl almost as beautiful as you!"

—

Back at Sebastian's large estate, every minute seemed to last an eternity for the struggling alpha.

Sebastian felt miserable, sweating and trembling, and the fact that he was so worried about Ciel wasn't helping any.

Mina was quiet at first, but once a few hours had passed, she started to wail hungrily.

Sterling had gone to the refrigerator and had fortunately found a bottle, which pacified the newborn for a while.

But as evening came and still, Ciel had not returned, Mina began to grow impatient again.

Sebastian sighed to himself, listening to his daughter's hungry cry.

"WWWAA!"

Secretly, Sebastian just wanted to wail with the baby but instead he asked Sterling in an irritated voice, "Father, how could you let this happen?"

"Now, now, son," Sterling chided, trying to bounce Mina to calm her down. "I'm sure you're mother is just trying to help."

Sebastian turned his head and looked over at the wall as he asked quietly, "What could she possibly do to help us?"

—-

Like Sebastian, Ciel had spent the day tormented, not by nausea and withdrawals, but by hands and bleach and tweezers and hot tools and razors that touched far too close to Ciel's skin for her liking…

Evelyn had sat down in a black chair.

Then, Ciel had been ushered into one next to her and that was it.

The torture began.

A flurry of very chic, immaculately groomed salon attendants had swooped in on both the bluenette and her mother-in-law and immediately began their work.

Ciel's hair was pulled this way and that.

Ciel's eyelids were lifted and sharp tools came so close to her eyeballs that she was certain she would be blinded.

Ciel's face had something applied to it that felt like her skin was being burned off.

Ciel's hair was soaked in a foul-smelling cream, then it was washed, and recovered in something that smelled even more acrid.

The bluenette's hands were lifted and she could feel the grating scratch of an emery board as her nails were filed down to nubs.

At one point, Evelyn and Ciel were taken to a separate room.

Ciel's clothes were stripped off and some sort of a nozzle began to spray what smelled like aerosol paint all over her still-healing body.

Hands pulling….

Chemical smells everywhere…..

Ciel wasn't sure what would happen first, if she would die or it would stop.

But finally, almost as suddenly as the assault had started, it ended.

The salon attendants had finished their work and they stepped away.

Ciel was left gasping for breath.

The omega felt like she was suffocating.

She was utterly traumatized.

Ciel looked over at Evelyn to make sure she was alright.

Ciel's eyes widened when she saw Evelyn sitting in her chair completely relaxed with a glass of wine in her hand and a smile on her perfectly-shaped lips.

"Did you enjoy that?!" Ciel exclaimed.

"Why, of course, darling. It's just a day at the spa. Perfect, isn't it?" Evelyn asked with a smile.

Ciel was flabbergasted.

What kind of maniac enjoyed something like this?!

That was when Ciel's eyes started to water.

Evelyn saw Ciel raise her hand to her face and she quickly called over, "No, don't! It's hasn't set yet! Don't worry, it's alright! You're just not used to the glue."

"Glue?" Ciel asked absently while her eyes squinted shut involuntarily.

"Alessandro," Evelyn called over. "Bring a mirror! Let her see your work! You've done brilliantly!"

Ciel could hear the smirk in her voice.

The bluenette blinked her teary eyes and the next thing she knew, Alessandro, Evelyn's stylist, was in front of her holding a mirror.

In spite of the reaction to the "glue" or whatever it was, Ciel's blue eyes widened in terror as she stared back at her reflection because their sapphire hue was the only thing that Ciel recognized about herself as she gazed at her visage in the glass of the mirror.

"Aren't you lovely, my dear?" Evelyn purred to Ciel with a smile. "You were cute but now you're beautiful. Like me! Well, almost ...This way, you'll always have something to offer Sebastian. You're just an omega, so you really shouldn't let your appearance slip."

Ciel was too bewildered to fire back at Evelyn.

What….

What had….

Oh dear, dear, dear….

Oh no!

It must be a bad dream, a nightmare, that was all….

Ciel pinched herself but she didn't wake up.

Realizing that this really was her grotesque reality, there was only one thing that Ciel could manage to say…..

"Is…..is that me?" Ciel asked in a horrified voice.

—

Evelyn and Ciel returned to the manor.

Evelyn collected the baby from Sterling and gave her to Ciel to tend.

Evelyn did not even offer to hold the newborn while Ciel prepared her bath.

Ciel didn't even mind.

She was too busy thinking…

In the morning, she and Sebastian could resume their lives, but how was she going to face him like this?

Evelyn had promised to watch The Assassination of Versace on Netflix with Ciel once the baby was asleep.

However, they had just made it through the first episode when Evelyn paused it to tell Ciel how inaccurately they were misrepresenting the famous designer whom she had known personally.

Evelyn had gone to get another glass of wine, come back, sat down, and drifted off to sleep on the sofa once her Xanax kicked in.

Ciel frowned.

The bluenette hadn't cared much for the show.

With a sigh, Ciel chose to look at her phone for a while instead of the tv.

Ciel ran a google search on Evelyn and looked through some news articles and fan websites.

Ciel squinted hard at her phone.

Her eyes widened.

Now she recognized Evelyn!

Ciel remembered seeing Evelyn on the covers of magazines when she was a child, before she had been abducted by the people who sold her to Sebastian.

So Evelyn was a famous supermodel…

According to the news reports, Evelyn had started out at a young age, too young, and had quickly risen to fame, becoming a paper doll of the industry.

Somehow, Evelyn had found Sterling and the two chose to stay together, although Ciel raised an eyebrow when she learned that Evelyn and Sterling had never married.

Sterling had apparently asked Evelyn for a child and she had complied, at the cost of her modeling career.

Alphas did not make good mothers.

In the pictures on google images, Ciel found a couple of old snapshots where Evelyn sashayed down the street with Sterling trailing after her and Sebastian, then just a little boy, standing sadly in the background.

Sebastian was ignored and neglected, raised by servants mostly since Evelyn was too busy being fabulous and Sterling was too preoccupied chasing after her.

Ciel frowned.

So that's why Sebastian wanted a family so badly...because he never really had one.

Ciel pouted as she looked over at Evelyn.

Looking closely at the female alpha while she slept, Ciel could see the microscopic scars of the multiple plastic surgeries Evelyn had put herself through in a desperate attempt to stop age from destroying her beauty.

Despite all of her wickedness, Ciel couldn't help but feel a little sorry for her mother-in-law.

Although, Evelyn's troubles and sorrows didn't justify the way she had treated Ciel…

Ciel was just about to run another google search when her phone buzzed.

The bluenette blinked.

Sebastian was calling.

Ciel declined the call and sent it to voicemail.

A few minutes later, Ciel received a text from her alpha.

Are you alright?

Ciel started to type yes, but she stopped when tears welled in her eyes.

Maybe it was the unnecessary tragedy of Sebastian's family, or the horrors of the spa, or the fact that Ciel had just given birth a few days ago, but the bluenetre found herself so upset that her hands trembled as she typed:

No. Your mother is positively vile.

In his room, Sebastian's eyes widened and he hurriedly typed back,

Where are you?! I'll come get you! Are you in bed? Are you hurt?

This time, Ciel's eyes widened.

If Sebastian came to her tonight, they'd have to start all over again.

That meant another two days with Evelyn!

Ciel would rather give birth again, then….. ha!

Ciel would rather get hit by a train then spend another two days with Evelyn Michaelis!

Ciel's fingers flew across the phone keyboard as she typed back,

NO. I'm alright, Sebastian. I'm not hurt. I'm just tired and I've had a hard day.

Sebastian pouted in his room and replied,

You don't want to talk tonight?

Ciel sighed and responded as she stood up and went to bed,

No, not tonight.

In his room, Sebastian pouted when he saw Ciel's message and replied sweetly,

Alright then, sleep tight, my precious kitten~.

Sebastian waited on a text back from Ciel but it never came.

Ciel was exhausted and she slept quite well.

Sebastian on the other hand, restlessly rolled from one side of the bed to the other.

He could feel the addiction breaking as the withdrawals faded away.

Sebastian felt like himself again, but he was unable to sleep.

Instead of dreaming of Ciel, Sebastian spent the night staring at the ceiling, wondering what his mother had done to his poor omega in his absence.

—

Just before dawn, Sebastian did manage to doze off for a moment.

Shortly after, he woke from his brief nap and lept out of bed with a grin.

After two horrible days, he was finally going to see his mate and child again!

Sebastian quickly padded downstairs, eyeing his parents packing to leave as he skidded down the hallway.

Sebastian heard movement in the kitchen and a wide smile broke out across his face as he darted into the room.

"Kitten? Kit—ten!" Sebastian exclaimed, jumping back in shock.

Ciel, or who Sebastian presumed to be Ciel, was sitting at the table.

That person turned to look at Sebastian and he recoiled in horror.

"Who are you?!" Sebastian demanded with narrowed eyes.

"I'm your wife, you idiot!" Ciel snapped back, holding Mina in her arms.

Ciel knew it was bad, but Sebastian didn't have to be rude about it.

It wasn't like she had chosen this…

Sebastian's eyes widened.

He wasn't trying to be rude, he just couldn't believe…

"C ...Ciel?" Sebastian asked in disbelief.

Ciel sniffed back more tears as she peered at her alpha through her bleached blonde hair. "I told you, Sebastian, your mother is positively vile.

Sebastian looked at Ciel like she was mortally wounded and carefully approached, his hands outstretched and his eyes heavy with sadness, "Oh...my poor kitten…."

Ciel's hair had been trimmed and bleached an impossibly platinum shade of blonde, her eyebrows had been nearly threaded off, gaudy mink extensions had been attached to her eyelashes, making it look like two burly spiders were holding her eyeballs, and her soft, alabaster skin had been exfoliated to the point of being nearly raw and airbrushed with a tan far too garish for her pale complexion.

To make it worse, Evelyn had applied a thick, sticky gloss to Ciel's pink lips as soon as she woke, insisting that she always look her best for her alpha.

Maybe someone would have liked Ciel's new look, but Sebastian hated it.

Sebastian thought his omega was perfect just the way she was.

Sebastian despised tans.

Sebastian did not particularly care for blondes either.

Ciel's unique bluenette hair, her naturally thick eyelashes, and her flawless, porcelain skin were some of the things that Sebastian found most alluring about his omega.

But what Sebastian admired most about Ciel, more than her skin or hair, or any part of her body, was the aura she carried and the effortless beauty that Ciel seemed to always command, without any cosmetics or enhancements.

Ciel was beautiful all on her own, and she didn't need Alessandro, a staff, surgeries, or any of those other things to entrance Sebastian or hold his attention.

"My kitten….." Sebastian whimpered, clutching one of Ciel's hands, scowling at the way Ciel's naturally oval shaped nails had been filed down to nothing and lacquered with a heavy purple polish.

Purple was not Ciel's color.

And that lip gloss…..

When Ciel did wear a small amount of makeup, it was usually a sweep of powder or just a touch of eyeshadow.

Ciel always kept her lips bare.

Sebastian preferred it that way, since bare lips gave him easy access to Ciel's kisses, and like a good omega, Ciel obeyed Sebastian's wishes.

But now…..

Evelyn stepped into the room and Sebastian whirled around as he addressed his mother angrily, "Look what you've done to my wife! Look! You've ruined her!"

"Ruined her?" Evelyn asked, raising an eyebrow at Sebastian, "Please, son, I invented her."

Sebastian was breathing hard, his chest rising and falling with great effort as Evelyn made her way out to the limousine, carrying her most expensive Hermés satchel.

If Evelyn hadn't been his mother, Sebastian would have probably killed her on the spot for maiming Ciel.

However, the female alpha was not ashamed or afraid.

Evelyn just looked Sebastian directly in the eye as she sauntered past, her stilettos clicking on the marble kitchen floor as she smiled haughtily at her son, "You're welcome~."