Chapter 658 - SACRIFICE

Inside the library, under the crumbling bookshelf, there was a faint sound of a woman's cry. It was Violet, the witch. She was trying to break free from the heavy woods that were trapping her body under, and moved away from the bookshelf ruins. But there was something else that made her whimpering in fear. It was someone whose wrath she feared the most.

"Jedrek...I'm...I'm sorry—," She sobbed the moment she saw that man was approaching her. His dark eyes were so intensely predacious, she realized that her life was about to end in any moment then. He exuded this unsettling predatory energy. The beast was ready to pounce on its prey.

But then, he bent his body down, and easily lifted the bookshelf from Violet's body. His action could be out of pity, or perhaps he had another plan inside his vicious mind about what to do with Violet. One thing for sure, the lycan king was not going to spare the witch for mercy.

"Jedrek..," Violet looked at him with her teary eyes, she cried him a river. "I don't know...this is not my doing," the witch shook her head vigorously, hanging onto the edge of Jedrek's cloak so tight. Jedrek didn't move, he didn't even budge when Violet tried to get up by clinging onto him.

"Jedrek," Violet threw her arms around the Alpha's body. She sobbed in sorrow, acting like she was the one who had been wronged for a crime she swore she did not commit. She tried to blame it all to Maximus for the unspeakable thing that she did. "It was Maximus... It was all his doing. He was the one who told me to come inside… I will not dare if it wasn't because of his order."

He didn't reply to her plea and confession. The lycan king's silence was more frightening than his angry roar. Seeing that there was no response from Jedrek, Violet realized that her excuse was not enough. She kept on talking to convince the Alpha king that she was innocent.

"Maximus told me to bring the guardian angel inside the room… he… he offered me…" Violet took a big gulp when she had to mention the truth, there was a deal that she made with Maximus. "He offered me one of your magical treasures… I am so sorry."

Violet thought she could use their relationship as a shield, or as a card to get away from her crime. She was foolish to expect that even though she was caught red-handed, Jedrek would be lenient and forgiving. She was assuming that he would put their relationship as a consideration to it. But she was wrong all along. The look in his face was the proof. He looked far from mercy.

What she didn't know was thatJedrek didn't even have a shred of affection towards her at all. No matter how many nights they had spent together, no matter how useful Violet was to him, once the witch crossed his boundary that he set, there was no way to return. Prying the arms that wrapped tightly around his body, Jedrek cupped Violet's chin between his fingers, as he stared down to the witch.

"Do you think I don't know?" Jedrek said in a low and husky voice. It was not the voice that would usually be a turn on for Violet. Not this time. The way he spoke, and stared at her was nothing, but a menacing looking. "I know what the both of you did behind my back."

Violet gasped. She could feel her heart was on her throat. She started to cry even harder, and begged for forgiveness.

"You have not only broken one rule, but many of it. And now you are begging for forgiveness? Have you forgotten who I am?" He made his words clear and detached. Violet's body was trembling in fear because of it. "Now, you want to go and see what's inside?" a smirk appeared in the corner of his lips. It was a sign that something gruesome was about to happen.

Violet's breathing was faster. She felt her fear gripped her heart tightly, and fought the rising panic in her. But then, the next thing she knew, Jedrek was dragging her towards the direction of which she was looking for the secret door earlier.

"No! What are you doing?! Where are you taking me?!" Violet screamed when Jedrek opened the built- in sliding bookcase and took her inside. The secret passage greeted them with an eerie silence. Behind it, the tunnel was forming an infinite darkness. A dim light showed the path to where Jedrek was dragging the witch along the way. Violet knew there was something horrendous would unfold.

With her free hand, Violet tried to conjure some magic. She was trying to escape the insane king. It was hard to do that, especially since he was a Donovan. Not all magic could work on the Donovans, their special blood was known to be immune to some magic.

"Jedrek, please...I'm begging you...forgive me! I will never do it again!" Helpless, and unable to break free from Jedrek's tight grip, Violet begged him again. "I promise, I will never do it again! Please remember what I have done for you, take pity on me…" But Jedrek still ignored that.

When they reached the only door in the tunnel, Jedrek stopped. He spun her so that she could face him. "Didn't you wish to know what's inside, right?" Jedrek held her close to him. "Let's go inside, and fulfill your curiosity."

"No." Violet shook her head vigorously in horror. "No, I don't want to know." Whatever behind it, it wouldn't be something pleasant for Violet if Jedrek offered it this way. Didn't heed to any of Violet's pleas, now Jedrek pushed open the wooden black door that was covered with scratches.

Once he stepped inside, Jedrek twisted Violet's arms. They could hear the unsettling cracking bone sound. Her bones shattered under his great force. He hurled Violet's body inside the room, and watched straight-facedly when the witch fell to the ground in the middle of the oval-shaped room. 

Violet cried in agony. She could no longer use her arms for protection from whatever it was that would come to her and attack. Her breathing hitched, and her body convulsed. She laid there helplessly. Her words were no longer coherent.

"YOU WANT THIS? TAKE IT!" Jedrek's voice thundered to no one in particular inside the room.

From the dark corner of the room, Janus walked over, and watched in disdain at the witch on the ground before he shifted his attention to his firstborn son.

"Jedrek," he sighed. "I didn't know that you would sacrifice your plaything for this. Do you perhaps feel sorry?"

Jedrek's eyes turned bloodshot red when he glared back at his father. 

"In the end, you can't give her up…" Janus shook his head mockingly. "What is it? Do you mean to say that the mate bond gets in the way, that you couldn't bring yourself to do it?"

After saying that, the darkness behind him crept closer as if it was alive. Closer and closer, until it consumed the witch's body and smothered her scream.