The Love of a Lycan

"What do you think you were doing?!" Jedrek roared once he laid Lilac down on her bed in her chamber, he had already mind-linked someone to call a healer and the old woman had been waiting for them right in front of the door.

"I was practicing with her!" Lilac snapped back at Jedrek. She didn't like the tone that he had been using when he was scolding her along the way here and now.

She was aware, why Jedrek was angry, but… but she just didn't want to be scolded in front of Serefina.

"What kind of practicing do you think you were doing?! You had destroyed two rooms back then when we were still in the old castle and now, were you going to tear down this whole place?!" There was a possibility for that to happen if Jedrek didn't rush there in time.

"Why are you just scolding me?! You can ask everyone present, it was Serefina who approached me!" Lilac shouted and then grimaced when the healer applied some ointment on her burned fingers.

Jedrek took a deep breath to contain his anger. The way Lilac's face scrunched in pain left his angry words stuck in his throat.

"How is she?" he asked the healer grimly. "Is it bad?"

The healer nodded her head solemnly. "Because she is not a shifter, the wounds will take quite some time to be healed."

Upon hearing the healer's answer, Jedrek's face darkened. He glared at Lilac for being reckless, but the guardian angel only lowered her head and pouted her lips sullenly.

She was the one who had to endure this pain, so she didn't need for Jedrek to scold her as an icing to her grievances.

"How long will it take her to completely heal?" Jedrek sat down beside Lilac, but she moved, so she wouldn't be too close with him. She was angry.

"Around a month," the healer answered gingerly and what she feared the most happened. Jedrek was infuriated when he heard that. "Her body composition is just like a human's, your majesty, so it takes time to heal completely, but it will not leave a scar if you apply the ointment regularly."

The mating ceremony would happen less than two weeks from now, but Lilac was injured. However, that was not the thing that angered Jedrek the most. The fact that he was worried about his mate to the point he lost his temper, surprised him. 

When the healer finished bandaging Lilac's fingers, she frowned at her hands, she wouldn't be able to use them for the time being.

"What should I do if I can't use my hands?" Lilac grumbled, she didn't like the thought that Serefina could beat her severely like this.

"You can lay down and stop creating new troubles." Jedrek stood in front of his mate, dismissing the healer to leave them alone, despite of Lilac refusal.

She didn't want to stay in the same room with Jedrek. For some reason, Lilac was upset every time she remembered how Jedrek snapped at her in front of Serefina.

"Look at me," Jedrek ordered her, but Lilac refused again. She glared at the flower vase on top of the table, which she had placed there just in this morning. "Lilac, look at me."

"No," she replied curtly.

"Lilac." Jedrek tried to be more patient with Lilac, but everyday his mate kept testing his patience and the most frustrating thing was; he couldn't go all out and vent his frustration on her.

Apparently, the mate bond kept getting stronger and it stung when he saw Lilac in pain. However, his feelings for Serefina were still somewhere around a small corner in the king's heart.

Jedrek wouldn't take 'no' for an answer, he held her chin and tilted her head, so their eyes could meet.

"Stop destroying my castle," he said rigidly. Lilac was about to protest, but Jedrek leaned over and kissed her head. "Take some rest, Keira will be here to help with whatever you need."

After saying that, Jedrek let go of her chin and strode toward the door.

"You put her here to spy me, so I will not destroy my room?" Lilac shouted at Jedrek sarcastically.

Jedrek closed his eyes to contain his temper, yet his beast purred at Lilac's defiant act. "I am afraid you will have a hard time to do so with your injured hands. Take a rest little flower."

Lilac murmured something grumpily.

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Orange light from her palms helped the witch to close her wounds. She breathed heavily when a big wound on her left arm kept bleeding nonstop.

She ignored Eaton and Lyrus's suggestion to get a healer for her. Serefina didn't need that, she could heal herself and all she wanted now was to be alone.

After a few moments, the orange light seeped through her skin and mended her wound, as it started to close in.

When Serefina heard the door was being opened she was about to snap, but then remembered the door had been charmed so no one could enter.

"Who is that?!" Serefina stood up and walked vigilantly toward the door. Her encounter with the devil in the forest on her way here had put her on alert.

However, the moment she saw who it was, she hoped it was Asmodeus instead of him.

"How is your wound?" Jedrek asked and welcomed himself to enter the room.

"How did you come in?" Serefina narrowed her eyes.

"Through the door," Jedrek said casually, he didn't meet Serefina's eyes when he took her injured arms and inspected them. Just like what he thought. The witch had healed herself, she had this ability, but still Jedrek needed to see with his own eyes that she was fine.

"I placed a spell there. How can you enter my room?" Serefina pulled back her hands, but Jedrek had not yet done with his observation, thus he gripped them tighter.

"Have you forgotten? Your magic is useless against me," Jedrek mumbled and let go of Serefina's hand when he was sure that her wound was nothing major.

"What do you want?" Serefina asked.

"I think this is the right time for us to have a proper conversation."