The Love of a Lycan

Lilac was dressing the wounds on Jedrek's back, which appeared getting worse by the day. She couldn't help but frown as her eyes stung for seeing them.

"You don't have to do it if you can't handle it." Jedrek stared at Lilac's reflection through the mirror in front of them, which Lilac didn't realize before that they were actually sitting facing it and as a result, it was displaying all her expressions clearly to her mate now.

"So, who will do it for you? Serefina?" her voice dripped with more hatred than she intended to let out.

However, after saying that, Lilac realized how childish she was behaving and lowered her head, focusing all of her attention on his wounds.

Jedrek didn't tease her, there was no way he would do that, and he just pretended like he didn't even hear what Lilac just said.

"The ointment doesn't help with the wounds." Jedrek pointed out the obvious. He didn't feel any better even when the first time Lilac put the medicine on him. He knew it was just waste of time, yet Lilac wouldn't stop insisting and Jedrek couldn't say anything to make her stop.

"I will ask the healer to make another," Lilac murmured. She dabbed the liquid with cotton and swabbed it on his gashes.

Jedrek turned around and caught Lilac's hand. He was sitting on a round chair and when he turned around to face Lilac, who was standing behind him, he just needed to slightly raise his head to catch her gaze.

"This is already the third time and nothing is working," Jedrek said. "Stop it."

"And what? Do nothing?" Lilac glared at Jedrek defiantly.

"These are just gashes." Jedrek stood up and his tall body towered over his little mate, but he could see from her eyes that she didn't feel intimidated by him, not even in the slightest.

"You are injured," Lilac insisted.

"Yes, and these are just wounds." Jedrek let go of her hand, so she could express her irk.

"These are not only wounds! It is already not normal that they are not healing even after two weeks!" Lilac was almost screaming when she said that. "You can't brush it off just because it doesn't show any effect on you yet. You can't take it lightly!"

These wounds were Maximus's last gift to Jedrek and there was no way it wouldn't harm him. However, Jedrek had not been feeling anything since he got this, except for a few times where he felt like his back was being burned, yet it only lasted for a few minutes before the pain subsided and it was something that he could still handle.

Jedrek kept silent while listening to Lilac's rambling until she stopped talking and he hugged her tightly, whispering. "Thank you for worrying about me."

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"Can I enter the room?" Lana knocked on the door but she already opened it, even before getting a response from inside.

"No," Serefina answered curtly. She didn't even raise her head from the book that she had been reading.

Contradicting Serefina's reply, Lana entered the room anyway. "How do you feel now?" she asked when she visited the witch in Theo's nursing room. The closer the ceremony day was, the more Serefina would spend all her time in this place.

She would say that this castle was covered with the flowers that she hated, thus she couldn't go anywhere without being tempted to burn the whole decoration.

Later, Lana came to know that the flowers were chosen by Serefina herself and Lilac agreed to that. It was almost like there was a silent understanding between the two of them.

Serefina wanted an excuse and Lilac gave it to her.

Meanwhile, the mating ceremony would be held the day after tomorrow, therefore all the preparations were almost done by now.

"Can the two of you stop asking me the same annoying questions?" Serefina put down the book in her hand and glared at Lana, who was strolling into the room despite Serefina's rejection and took a seat on the edge of Theo's bed since there were no more chairs inside this small room.

"The two of us?" Lana knitted her brows, but then understanding dawned upon her, about whom Serefina meant. "Hope is worrying about you too."

Serefina scoffed. "I doubt that, she seems getting along with the other guardian angel pretty well."

"You know her, she is a happy child. She gets along with almost everyone anywhere, that includes even the servants here." Lana shrugged her shoulders. "Of course, she will worry about you, she thinks of you as her mother."

Serefina cringed when she heard that. "Just because I raised her, doesn't mean she can think of me like that!" just at the thought of her being regarded as a motherly figure, she felt goosebumps erupting all over her body.

Lana sighed before she stood up. "I think I am done here. Actually, Hope had been bothering me by asking to check on you since the last time she was here and you threw her out. Now, I see you still have energy to get angry, I guess it is a good thing."

The last time Hope was here, she hugged Serefina tightly without saying anything, as a form of expressing her sadness for Serefina. However, the witch didn't appreciate that and threw her out of the room before locking the door.

"Tell her if she keep bothering me, I will burn down all the decoration of her best friend's ceremony," Serefina grumbled and watched as Lana chuckled softlybefore walking out of the room.

Lana looked happier and less grumpy since she met her mate.

"I am happy for you," Serefina said all of a sudden that coerced Lana to turn around, not able to believe what she just heard. This would be the first time the witch was saying something nice.

"I didn't hear it wrong, right?" Lana looked amused.

"No," Serefina said and continued it lightly. "At the very least, you will not end up like me."

"Serefina…" Lana looked at the witch with complicated emotions.

"Take care of yourself and him."

Lana grinned, "I think Raphael is more than capable to take care of himself."

"I was not talking about that mate of yours, I am talking about 'him'." Serefina nodded to Lana's stomach.

"What?" Lana widened her eyes. She couldn't believe what she was saying.

"Close the door," Serefina said and turned around only to find Theo staring back at her with a confused expression

He finally opened his eyes.