Chapter 748 - WHY DID YOU COMEBACK?

"What do you want?" Serefina asked. She totally forgot about the fact that her magic didn't work on any Donovan.

Seeing Jedrek inside her room and checked on her were the last thing that she thought would happen today.

The thought that he was still care for her, warmed the witch's cold heart. However, Serefina reprimanded herself to not let her hope went too high.

"I think this is the right time for us to have a proper conversation," Jedrek said with face that devoid from any emotion. He took a seat on the chair near a window, which showed the beautiful scenery of the backyard of the castle, where a small river streamed trhough a forest.

Jedrek nodded his head to the seat in front of him, as a gesture for Serefina to take a seat there, since the witch didn't have any intention to move an inch from where she was standing now.

"You enter my room without permission." Serefina criticized him.

"This castle and everything inside are mind, including this room." Jedrek pour two drink for him and Serefina. "Sit down and we will talk."

"So, are you done pertending that I am not here?" Serefina took the glass, but didn't sit down on the chair where Jedrek had pointed, instead, she stood beside the window and leaned her back against the wall.

Jedrek was very familiar with Serefina's temper. She would make everything difficult, whenever she was not in good mood, and now it was apparent that she wasn't.

"I was not pretending that you are not here, I just ignored you." Jedrek corrected her and this made Serefina scoffed disdainfully.

"I don't see the different," she said with harsh tone.

Jedrek had his own consideration. At first, he didn't want to have any conversation with Serefina, even a small talk such as a greeting, yet, doing that didn't put him at ease at all.

That was why, here he was, he wanted to clarify the air between them.

"What do you want to talk about?" it was a rhetorical question, which she didn't need to ask to find the answer. She was aware about what Jedrek was going to ask her ever since she left the realm.

Serefina always thought about the question that Jedrek would gave her the moment they met, but she still couldn't find the proper answer for that, even after such a long time.

"You know what I am going to ask," Jedrek spoke grimly, despite a small smirk on the corner of his lips.

Serefina laughed dryly. "I can't read your mind like Killian did," she said mockingly.

"He can never read my mind," Jedrek scoffed. He had never thought there would come a day where he could talk to Serefina again. However, the misunderstanding between them had drawn them apart.

"Neither do I." Serefina felt stupid to beat around the bush when she talked to Jedrek now.

Jedrek clenched his jaw tightly before he spoke stiffly. "Where have you been? Why did you leave the realm? Why did you cast away what we had? Why you had never come to me even once? Where the rumors were true about you and Kace?" He listed all of the questions in his mind, but the most important question was; "Why did you come back?"

The last question stabbed Serefina right in his heart. She could feel the hatred that leaked from every word that came out from his lips.

Jedrek's last question was akin to him saying that he didn't want to see her again, and as much as she had expected it, the words still pained her nonetheless.

"Wow!" Serefina raised her eyebrows dramatically. "Those are a lot of questions…" she chuckled.

"I have plenty of time to hear every detail of your answer." Jedrek made himself comfortable on the plush chair, waiting for Serefina to start talking, telling him a bunch of lie…

They knew the other very well, up to the point they could tell when one of them was telling lie.

It was a comforting fact in the past, but not for now, it made them felt vulnerable and too open for the pain that they would face.

Serefina stretched out her hand and wiggled the empty glass in front of Jedrek. "Maybe if I get a little bit tipsy, I can answer all of your questions." She missed teasing him like this.

In the past, Jedrek would smirk and gave the bottle for her, but at this moment, he poured the drink to her glass without emotion. He treated her too formal for Serefina's like.

"Talk now." Jedrek put down the bottle and met her gaze.

Serefina gulped down the liquid and it felt bitter in her taste buds. "Where have I been? I have been in a village near northern coven realm, village named mystic river." She offered her empty glass again and Jedrek filled it. "And why I left the realm? Because I have my own reason."

"That is not the answer."

"I have never said that I will answer all of your questions." Serefina countered. "Your majesty." She added in mocking tone. "Why I left you? I have my own reason. Why I had never come back? I have my own reason."

"So, there is no need for me to sit here and listen nothing from you." Jedrek thought she would tell a lie. But, as it turned out she dodged all of the questions.

Jedrek was about to stand up when he heard Serefina spoke again.

"You are a fool if you think I was with Kace, he is less attractive than you," Serefina said softly. For a moment, she talked to him the way she always teased him long time ago. It was funny at that time, but not now, because Jedrek's facial expression barely changed.

"But, you stay with him all those decades, right?" Jedrek didn't miss how Serefina's breath became shallow when she admitted it. "So, why did you come back now?"