The Love of a Lycan

Raine looked around her. They were inside a room that was as big as the dining hall in Torak's pack house.

There were seven of them and they were sitting around a round table with Raine sitting beside Hope and their mates sitting on their unoccupied sides, while Jedrek sat on the right side of Torak, Lilac sat next to him with Serefina on her right side.

The tension was palpable and the atmosphere was so thick until one could cut it with knife.

From the gloomy aura that surrounded them, it was already conclusive that no one wanted to sit there for another second longer, yet there they were, trying to tolerate each others' temper to discuss more pressing matters.

Raine glanced at Lilac, who was smiling sweetly at her and Hope during the meeting, but the three of them still didn't got a chance to get to know each other. It was a pity.

Moreover, Raine had spotted the bandages on Lilac's hands. She wondered what caused her to be injured so severely? It couldn't be that Jedrek had hurt her, right?

Raine shifted her attention to Jedrek, but she immediately averted her gaze when the overbearing king caught her eyes. He was very scary.

Within two hours, they had been discussing about a few important things and exchanging all the information in their knowledge.

During the discussion, only Torak, Jedrek and Serefina would talk, while Kace would chime in every now and then.

On the other hand, the three guardian angels seemed bored with the ongoing discussion and were more interested in knowing each other. They seemed very impatient to have some time for themselves.

Just like the lycans, they also wanted to exchange information about one another.

"When will your people be arriving?" Jedrek asked his brothers in his Alpha's tone, but it didn't have any effect on the people inside the room.

"They will be here next week at the latest." Torak answered Jedrek and glanced at Kace. "The centaurs and a few people will come with them as well."

"Some of the shifters will join us too, but I think it will take some time before Sterling can gather them all. I don't know exactly when they will arrive," Kace said. He was trying really hard to ignore Jedrek and suppress his pent up anger. He never imagined that there would come a day when he had to sit down with his two brothers again.

Jedrek gave some thought about it. "The southern city will not be enough to accommodate them," he said thoughtfully and only then did Serefina and the two younger brothers realized that they have to make arrangements for a massive number of people.

"We can use the nearby town for them to reside," Torak spoke.

"I don't think one town is enough," Kace murmured.

"The next town will be too far from here and it will be better if the forces are not scattered in different places." Jedrek voiced out his thought.

"The centaurs want their land back," Kace reminded him. The land of the centaurs was a little bit too far from here, therefore, if Jedrek wanted to concentrate his force in one place, they should exclude the centaurs.

Jedrek stared at Kace. His youngest brother had been avoiding to look at him since the beginning of the meeting.

"We need one of them to coordinate with us." Torak suggested. "We will need one of them as a representative of their kind, since it is impossible for us to face them one by one."

"One of my general will arrange that." Jedrek nodded, agreed.

"How many people did we mobilized during the first war?" Kace frowned, trying to remember. "One hundred thousand? Two?"

"Three hundred thousand of our people," Torak said.

"And two hundred thousand of other shifters and supernatural creatures."Jedrek chimed in.

"We have dragon shifters, a few witches and fairies at that time." Kace remembered the dragon people and their betrayal.

"I think we have a problem with the witches." Jedrek squared his shoulder and informed them. "I killed Maximus."

"What!?" Kace was taken aback, even Torak was surprised.

As long as they could remember, Maximus had been a friend to Jedrek since they were little and that was one of the reasons why Jedrek saved him when he executed all the Gregory family because of treason, aside from the fact it was Maximus, who handed them over.

"Did you realize that he had a pretty strong influence over the east when you killed him?" Kace glared at Jedrek, this was the first time he looked at Jedrek in the eyes since he entered the chamber earlier.

"He is no longer useful to me," Jedrek said. He didn't explain it and when Lilac was about to tell them the truth behind it, Jedrek held her hand firmly and this gesture didn't escape Serefina's lime-green eyes.

"Why? Because he didn't managed to kill me?"Kace narrowed his eyes dangerously, he could feel his anger rose, as he let out a low growl.

If Jedrek had done this earlier, Kace would have thanked him for doing so, but the problem was; their situation was quite complicated now and the witches in the east region were very useful if they had to face the devils in the battle.

"Don't flatter yourself. I will not kill him for that cheap reason." It was half a lie. Jedrek indeed cared for his brothers, but he just didn't want to show it.

Upon hearing that, Kace scoffed disdainfully. "You didn't even spared me the pleasure to kill him myself."

"Why did you kill him?" As long as Torak could remember, Jedrek was not someone who would make a decision out of pure impulse. There must be a strong reason behind it.

"Maximus challenged him for the Alpha title," Serefina answered that, but when she looked at Jedrek, her face turned rigid as she revealed something more that led them onto another conclusion. "Or, at least that was what I heard."

Even though Serefina arrived in this place two days earlier, she still couldn't find the truth behind Jedrek���s reckless decision for killing Maximus. He should know what his actions would cost them.