What? I can’t leave? He seriously just said I can't leave.

I feel fear rip through my body. Had they waited until I had pledged to the pack and him before telling me that? I thought I was coming here to learn about my heritage. Surely what happens then is my choice, is it not? I was trembling, I don’t know if it was anger or fear. My plan had been to learn and then leave. Had pledging to them taken away any choice I had?

“Why?” I ask “I have no reason to stay once I learn what I need to, surely? My parents asked me to learn that...