The Love of a Lycan

"Leave it there," Lilac said to the servant to leave a basin filled with water and a washcloth that she was told to bring, to a side in the kings chamber. "All of you can leave now."

It was two days since Jedrek had been absent from the morning court because his condition was still not stable and Lilac was very adamant, on him staying inside his chamber and recuperate. Strange enough, Jedrek didn't complain so much about this, probably because he finally realized that his condition would not allow him to appear in public.

During these two days, his generals had been bothering Lilac to meet with Jedrek, only when the king had warned them through the mind-link, did they ultimately stopped coming and complaining. Lilac was grateful for that. It seems that some progress was achieved in their relationship, although it was still very far to say that they were on the same page in every decision, but at least the debate between them had lessened a little.

Lilac watched as the servants left the room and closed the door behind them, only then did she walked toward the bed and opened the curtain that blocked people from seeing Jedrek. Even after these two days, Lilac didn't allow anyone to come inside, including Eaton and Tordoff. Even Lyrus, Jedrek's beta was not an exception. The last time he visited and Lilac refused him, his complaints echoed in the castle until his figure disappeared at the corner.

Whether Jedrek warned her in his consciousness or not, but the guardian angel wanted to be on the safe side.

Jedrek looked better now, but his wounds still left Lilac worrying every time she saw them.

"Open your clothes, I will wipe your back," Lilac said and Jedrek had taken off his clothes before Lilac could soak the wash cloth in the basin.

"Does people from the eastern region know about Maximus's death?" Jedrek asked when Lilac started to wipe his arm. It felt so good to have skin to skin contact with her. He couldn't deny the fact that he enjoyed her company.

"No words from Killian." Lilac replied, she did her job diligently and never raised her head to meet Jedrek's eyes.

"Send Eaton to the east if there is still no news from him tomorrow." Even though Jedrek was inside his chamber for two days straight and never met anyone except Lilac, he could still gather information through mind-link. All his generals took turns reporting what happened in the city and other domains to him.

But, sometimes Lilac would report the same thing and Jedrek would listen. Since they had never really had an interesting topic to discuss, these tedious problems helped in filling the topics too, so they wouldn't stay silence the entire day.

"Okay," Lilac agreed. "I will meet Maximus's mate this afternoon."

"Hm," Jedrek hummed and gave Lilac his other hand.

"After that, I will go to the city." Lilac lifted her eyes to see Jedrek's expression, but he showed no emotion.

"Take Sebastian with you and a few guards." Jedrek said.

Situation in the city was a little tense, people started to ask about the progress regarding the search for their missing family members and were turning a little bit violent, especially people from the city center, since the first case was from there.

"I will go with Tordoff," Lilac said. Tordoff was adamant on accompanying her to the city once he heard about her plan.

"Sebastian." It was final, Jedrek didn't leave any room for negotiation. And when Jedrek saw Lilac was about to reason with him, he reminded her. "I have told you to stay away from him."

Lilac sighed and then nodded. Of course, she remembered. It was the day when they agreed to work on this relationship. She didn't want to be the first person who broke their agreement. "I will go with Sebastian."

"Bring Lyrus with you too," Jedrek added.

"And? Who else?" Lilac asked sullenly. She couldn't understand, why they always thought that she was not able to protect herself and needed protection all the time. "Will you ask Kyle and Warlock to join too?"

"Warlock and Kyle have another matter to take care of," Jedrek said simply. Instinctively, he dodged Lilac's hand when she was about to wipe his neck and took the washcloth from her hand.

Neck was a vulnerable spot and Jedrek would never let anyone to touch him there, not even Lilac. Not yet.

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Lana frowned when she saw that all the lights in the house were on. Lana opened the gates and walked into the front yard, as she could hear a few people talking inside the house.

Had Serefina returned?

If she had returned, it meant… Kace had returned too!

Lana closed her eyes and she could smell Kace's scent in the air, along with other foreign scents, but there was one particular scent that made her beast whimper at the edge of her head.

She opened her eyes and watched as Kace emerged from the house with a plastic bag in his hand while grumbling.

Seconds later, Kace's eyes found Lana and he approached her. "What are you doing there?" he asked as if they just met with each other yesterday.

In the past, though Kace was often away, but he would call Lana to ask about Hope. However, this past year, there was no word from Kace and Lana couldn't hold back herself when she hugged him tightly.

"I miss you…" Lana said between her sobs and this caught Kace off guard. His naïve mind thought that Lana had gotten rid of her feelings for him, after all, it had been a year without communication whatsoever.

"Lana." Kace frowned. The plastic bag in his hand dropped to the ground, he was not sure whether he should reciprocate her gesture or not. In the end, Kace just gave a pat on her shoulder. "Go inside, Hope misses you."

"I miss you…" Lana insisted. "Where have you been?"

However, her moment was interrupted when they heard a vicious growl behind Kace.

And there, on the foyer was Raphael with red eyes.