Chapter 1089: Side story: porridge

Jedrek felt his heart skip a beat when he heard Lilac sneezed for, after God knows how many times. His mate caught a cold.

This was something that upset Jedrek for the fact that Lilac was a normal human. Because human's body was very fragile and was readily susceptible to sickness, and that was what happened right now.

Lilac's temperature broke out in a fever last night and the girl refused to go to the hospital until now. No matter what Jedrek said, she always said that she just needed a good sleep and would be better later.

But, even after the sun hit the horizon and the night had turned into day, Lilac was still fast asleep and there was no indication that her fever would go down any soon. This frustrated the lycan even more, since he didn't know what to do to convince her.

"Lilac, we need to go to the hospital, okay…" Jedrek tried to persuade her once again, but his mate kept shaking her head, complete refusal to go to the hospital. "My little flower, you are scaring me, don't be like this…" Jedrek took a deep breath to calm his wrecking nerves.

If it was his past self, he would already carry the stubborn girl in his arms directly to the hospital, but ever since they reunited three months ago, Jedrek would always try to respect what Lilac wanted or what she didn't want.

Thus, in this kind of situation, he was a little bit flustered because he didn't know what to do and Lilac didn't help at all his flustered self.

"I am all right…" Lilac said in a hoarse voice. She had to admit it, being sick like this was quite annoying, but there was nothing to be worried about because she had gotten used to it. "I just need some sleep."

Jedrek grabbed his hair out of frustration. "You have been saying that since last night." He pointed out the fact. "But, you are still in this condition even now…"

"I am all right…" Lilac tried to sit down, but she was too weak and as soon as she lifted her sluggish body, her head felt dizzy.

On the other hand, Jedrek immediately came over to her and let her lie down again, mumbling in frustration because Lilac was so stubborn. "What do you want? I will bring it for you…"

"I need to cook something for our lunch…" Lilac said in her soft voice and this only made Jedrek growl.

"We can buy food." Jedrek frowned deeply. He didn't want his mate to move around recklessly, especially to go to the kitchen.

"You know that I don't like it." Lilac stared at Jedrek, pouting her lips. "Why don't you cook for me?"

Well, actually Jedrek was not that bad at whipping up something edible, but his skills definitely couldn't be compared to Lilac's cooking skills.

"What do you want little flower?" Jedrek asked softly, he knelt down on the floor, beside Lilac's bed.

Lilac thought about it for a little while and then she told him what she wanted. It was only a simple porridge with shrimp, but the problem was; they didn't have shrimp in the fridge, thus Jedrek needed to go out to buy it.

Going out for grocery shopping, actually was not a good idea, but what else he could do.

"Is it okay if I leave you alone?" Jedrek asked in concern. He looked at Lilac deeply in the eyes and saw her nodding weakly.

"I will be fine, you don't need to worry about me," Lilac said as she closed her eyes. "I will go to sleep and I hope when I am awake, I will have my porridge," she smiled and snuggled into her blanket.

With that being said, what else Jedrek could do except to comply with her wishes? Thus, with heavy steps the lycan walked out of the room and went for grocery shopping.

Jedrek just hoped it wouldn't turn out be yet another nightmare for him.

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All women's eyes in the grocery shop were fixed on a man, who looked very aloof and mysterious, standing near the seafood aisle.

This man looked out of the place because of his features, as if his whole appearance was a contradictory element to his surroundings.

How could someone as handsome and godly looking as this man could be in the fish section in this grocery shop? Where mostly only women would occupy the place?

On the other hand, the said man, who was none other than Jedrek, was trying very hard to ignore the intense gazes that those women were actively throwing at him.

The look in their eyes that could tell him that he was a big catch and they would like to eat him whole if they were given a chance.

Fortunately, with the scary aura surrounding the lycan king, no one was able to make a move on him. He looked like a dangerous thing that you could only appreciate from afar, but couldn't be touched or else, you would be the one, who had to suffer.

More or less, that was how Jedrek looked like for the outsiders.

This was also one of the reasons why he was very reluctant to go to public places without Lilac. Because as a supernatural creature, their looks would be exceptional if one wanted to compare them with normal humans.

"Can you make it fast?" Jedrek complained when the young woman who took care of the shrimp that he wanted deliberately slowed down her work, making him wait longer than necessary.

"Oh, okay… okay…" The young woman stammered, but her eyes were glued to Jedrek with passion. She didn't even want to hide her intentions and this only made Jedrek growl in a low voice.

That was not the only thing that happened, because when he was going to pay for it, the cashier even slipped a paper with her number to him.

"You dropped this," Jedrek said as he gave back the paper to the cashier, whose face reddened after hearing what he said.

She took back the paper and lowered her head until Jedrek disappeared from that grocery shop, with her heart thumping wildly.

Jedrek grumbled and threw the shrimp into the car, before he drove away from that place.

But, it didn't stop there, when Jedrek finally reached the apartment building and took the elevator to go to Lilac's floor, he was stuck with a woman, who didn't stop staring at him and was daring enough to initiate a conversation.

And after a few pleasantry words, she finally asked what she really wanted to know.

"Do you live here?" She asked curiously. "I never saw you before."

Of course, because Jedrek would always leave and return in his beast form.

"Yes, with my wife," Jedrek replied out of politeness and could see how the woman raised her eyebrows skeptically.

"You have a wife?"

"Yes, and ten children."

"But, you don't have a ring on your finger," she pointed it out.

"Instead of a ring, I got a tattoo of her name," Jedrek replied proudly.

The woman's eyes widened in surprise.

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"This is amazing," Lilac said as she enjoyed her shrimp porridge. "See? It is not that hard to make this porridge. But, why do you look so tired?"

Jedrek sighed when he heard that. "A lot of things happened."