Chapter 767 - TRYING TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER

"Is this what you call karma?" Kace crossed his arms defensively, while looking down at Jedrek, who was sitting on the edge of Theo's bed. "Having someone stabbed behind your back after what you did to your little brother all this time?" Kace sneered, but he didn't look so happy like he intended to, when he heard someone betrayed his brother.

Kace, Torak and Jedrek were inside the room, which was used as Theo's nursing room. It had been three days since the attack of the town nearby by the rogue and even though Theo's critical condition had passed, he was still unconscious.

Jedrek scoffed upon hearing Kace's words, he gave him a side- look before he spoke. "Don't worry, I have predicted this even before you ran away to find your little mate."

"So, you keep a traitor next to you?" Kace narrowed his eyes.

"Not a traitor, but traitors. And yes, I keep them close to me," Jedrek answered in matter of fact tone.

Kace was surprised when he heard Jedrek admitted easily. He opened his mouth, wanted to say something, but there was no right words that he could think of. In the end, he just shook his head. "I don't understand you. Really."

"You don't need to. Just do what I told you," Jedrek said firmly.

Kace glared at Jedrek scornfully. "You know what? I do what I want to do. So, keep your order for yourself."

After saying that, Kace left the room without even spared Jedrek a glance.

"What?" Jedrek glared at Torak, who kept silence since they came into this room and checked on Theo's condition. "You are free to leave."

Torak didn't say anything or avert his eyes from Jedrek, only when his older brother stood up and was about to leave this room, Torak opened his mouth.

"Are you sure about having a mating ceremony in this kind of situation?" Torak pulled a chair for him to sit down. "When the traitors are aiming your back, you want to claim Lilac in front of your people and exposed her to the enemy?"

Jedrek stopped walking and turned around to face Torak. His expression devoid from any emotion when he spoke.

"She is not that weak, she can handle herself," he stated. "Moreover, what the benefit that we will get to have her behind my back all the time? She knows very well about her role and the consequences. The people have to know who she is and, in the other hand, she has to gain their respect, which will not happen if I keep protecting her every time we face difficulties."

Jedrek and Torak glared at each other for a moment longer. There was a lot of unexplainable feeling that was hard to convey.

After all, there was many things happened after the great war with the devils and the relationship between the brother only got worse over the time.

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Lilac couldn't understand why she ended up with Keira again, choosing the decoration for her upcoming grand event. The mating ceremony.

"I shouldn't do this." Lilac slammed a booklet against the table in frustration when finally Keira left her alone with the other guardian angel. "We don't have time for this."

Lilac thought after the death of Warlock, the shadow warrior and the traitors within Jedrek's people, Jedrek would postpone this mating ceremony, but to her surprise he didn't even budge when Lilac tried to reason with him.

Hope was playing with various flowers in front of her, which would be used for the ceremony. She loved party and was eager to see what it would like attending a ceremony in a castle.

"Maybe you need this," Raine said softly, she reached the booklet and opened it casually. "Jedrek will not do something without thinking about it thoroughly."

"So, what do you think he thought to focus on this ceremony instead to find out how the shadow warrior was able to sneak into the castle?" Lilac leaned her back against the backrest, missing how Raine grimaced when she mentioned a shadow warrior.

Hope pouted her lips when she was thinking. "We will face a war, maybe having a little bit celebration to cheer up our gloomy mood is a good idea?" she looked at Raine and Lilac, waiting for them to approve her suggestion. "Or, maybe not?" she grinned.

"So?" Lilac looked at Raine expectantly, she wished she could tell her a reasonable reason since Jedrek was determined to keep his words very short.

Raine thought about it a little bit longer. "You know, I thought even when Torak, Kace and Jedrek have different perception, but the three of them have one thing in common; they are very protective to their mate."

"Hm." Hope nodded. "It's really cute sometimes, but when Kace goes overboard, it's pretty annoying."

Lilac chuckled when she heard that. "I don't think Jedrek has cute side, but I agree with the part that you said they can be really annoying."

Lilac didn't tell them about the fact that Jedrek had tried to kill her when she was a babe, she thought there was nothing good for them to know that, moreover a lot of things had happened since then.

"Torak used to be overprotective and annoying too sometime. Even there is a time when I thought he would never let me out of his sight or meet other people in order to keep me safe." At that time, Raine didn't mind it at all, because she wasn't in the mental state she was in now.

"But, over time and many events that occur, we learn; that is not the best way to protect me." Raine put down the booklet in her hand and looked at Lilac with a soft smile on her lips. "Against all odds, he introduced me to his pack as his Luna and helped me to gain his people's respects, that way, not only he would protect me, but the rest of the pack too and likewise."