Chapter 854 - YOU SHOULDN'T BE PARTED

At the entrance gates, everyone was waiting for Jedrek, but the king had not appeared yet.

"Should I check on him?" Lilac said, slightly worried because Jedrek told her that he would just take care of something for a while before they could start, but it was already time to go, yet he was still nowhere to be seen.

Since the execution, she noticed that she began overthinking things, but she couldn't help it, though Jedrek had tried to stop her from doing so.

"You don't have to worry about him, he probably ran into something. He will be here in no time," Eaton reassured Lilac.

Raine could see that Lilac became a little bit tense and would easily startled at smallest things after the execution day. Although, she acted like nothing had happened, but Raine, as the sensitive person she was, was able to sense it.

"Don't worry, too much," Hope said, smiling as cheerful as ever, she hugged Lilac and giggled.

Everyone was trying to act as normal as they could, but what had happened till left a scar in their hearts and it was not an easy thing to accept all at once, yet they would have to overcome it one day.

It was only a matter of time, before those guardian angels' soft heart could be at ease and got used to their current situation and adapted to their predicament.

"Why was he bringing Bree with him?" Kace frowned when he spotted his older brother carrying Bree in his arms.

And when the entourage of people at the gates turned their heads in the direction Kace pointing toward, they found the approaching King, carrying little Bree in his arms, while the girl chatted happily with him, giggling occasionally.

"I'm not seeing it wrong, right?" Calleb elbowed Torak beside him and blinked his eyes a couple of times, the Gamma came to see them off, since Raphael had a lot of things to do.

Beside him, Torak was also frowning. He didn't even remember when the last time Jedrek spared time to get along with children.

"I think having a mate really changes you," Calleb murmured, but standing next to him, Raine elbowed him too.

"Said someone, who just found his mate and will always find a chance to skip babysitting me to go to his newly found mate," she scoffed playfully.

Calleb didn't have anything to retort that and just scratched the back of his head, because he knew Raine wouldn't talk about it with Torak, thus these past two days, he would always find an excuse to go to north wing to see Rosie, but of course he would do that if Raine was with Raphael or Lana and was well protected.

"You what?" Torak turned his attention toward Calleb as he narrowed his eyes dangerously, but Raine came to his rescue and linked her arms with her mate while talking about other things to distract his attention from Calleb.

On the other hand, Jedrek stopped walking and put Bree down before he moved closer to Lilac and kissed her temple.

"Where have you been?" Lilac asked.

"You must be the one, who was responsible for his delay, right,?" Kace said to Bree and messed up her hair, which had gotten long now.

The girl swatted Kace's hand and moved to hide behind Hope, whining. "He messed up my hair again," she said irritably, while trying to fix her bun.

"Come here, I will fix it," Hope laughed and fixed it for her.

"Hey, why did you go with him? Aren't you afraid he will chew you?" Kace pinched Bree's cheek and the girl bit his hand.

Fortunately, Kace was fast enough to retract his hand or else, her small teeth would be embedded into his skin by now.

"Of course not," Bree said. "I want to see the king, he said I can be a princess."

"How come you can be the princess?" Kace scowled. "I am not even a prince."

"You are a rogue," Calleb chimed in and he was rewarded with a glare from Kace.

"But, the king said I can be the princess," Bree retorted stubbornly as she touched her hair when Hope was done fixing it for her. "Right?"

"Right," Jedrek agreed.

Everyone raised their eyebrows at him, even Lilac didn't know that Jedrek had a soft spot for children. Or, maybe it was Bree, who was very skillful to melt a cold mountain like Jedrek.

"I think it's time for you to go," Torak said after a short moment. "Are you sure, you will just bring these numbers?"

There were only around two hundred people that Jedrek wanted to take to the eastern region.

"I'm going to talk terms, but if things go south, I assumed you have prepared everything," Jedrek looked at his younger brother, who was mumbling 'I know'.

Kace was still reluctant to take charge upon those people and their army, but the choice was either this or to act as the king in the absence of Jedrek.

Of course, he decided it was best to choose the bad over the worse.

"Let's go," Jedrek said.

As if on cue Lilac, Raine and Hope hugged each other, they had just met, but had to part again due to circ.u.mstances. No one could predict when they would comeback.

Even their promise to train together couldn't come true now, especially when Serefina was no longer with them.

"Stay safe," Raine said to Lilac and kissed her cheeks followed by Hope.

After that, Jedrek helped her to get on the carriage before he went inside as well. When everything was in place, Sebastian talked a few things to Eaton before he too embarked in another carriage, with Theo on his tow.

Lilac waved her hand from the window and the others stood there until Jedrek's entourage couldn't be seen anymore.

"You shouldn't be parted."

A voice rang from behind the seven standing people and, abruptly, all the lycans could smell a strange scent, as they turned around, their stances were on alert, protecting the girls among them.

However, what they saw made their eyebrows scrunched up in surprise.

"You?" Raine recognized him.

It was the dwarf that she had met back when she, Torak and the others had to escape from the people in her hometown.

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