Chapter 413 FAIRYTALE
413 FAIRYTALE
"Continue." Kace sighed tiredly. Serefina was one thing, but if the girl has the same personality like the witch, he was worried about how his mate would grow up later.
Despite her scowl at Serefina, Lana continued her story, disregarding the witch entirely. "My pack was attacked by vampire one day. My father was the Gamma of the pack and told my mother, my brother and me to leave the house."
Lana's voice trailed off. She stared out of the window as her next explanation turned into a murmur sound.
"My brother was the warrior of the pack, thus when he realized the situation was getting out of hand, he ran into the battle and was killed." Her voice turned gloomier as the story unfolded. "My mother hid me inside a wine barrel, so those vampires wouldn't be able to smell my scent."
The silence fell hard inside the car, even Serefina kept her focus on the road and didn't bother to give her thought upon this story, which was a good sign rather than to have her run her mouth.
"I don't know how long I was there, but when I no longer could hear anything, I mustered up my courage and tried to get out from inside the barrel."
Lana stopped again as Serefina drove the car exited from highway.
"All I could see was blood everywhere and dead bodies. It was a carnage." Lana's voice sounded steady, but there was ripple of anger that she tried to suppress.
"I couldn't venture to look for my mother and my father, because some of the vampires were still there, therefore I ran away."
Lana licked her dry lips as her fingers clasped together. She was too young to experience those gruesome memories, but that how life worked. It took everything dear to you to mold you into something new, whether you would break or became stronger.
Thankfully, Lana was the last one.
"How long have you been running away?" Kace leaned over and nudged her with a bottle of water.
Lana lowered her eyes and didn't say thank you, but the way she gulped down half of the water from the bottle, showed how much she needed it.
"The attack happened three weeks ago." Lana answered Kace after she took a deep breath and felt refresh. "Since then, I had run into some wicked creatures. Fortunately, I managed to escape from them."
"Lock heart pack," Serefina said with her eyes still locked on the road. "Your pack before was Lock heart pack."
There was a soft gasp that escape Lana's lips. "How do you know that?"
"I heard there was a pack that was demolished by vampire attack." Serefina then glanced at Kace through the rear- view mirror. "Your brother is very livid because of this."
"Girl! Sit down properly!" Serefina grunted upon the sudden movement.
However, Lana disregard her completely as she made a quick observation on Kace and asked. "You are one of the Donovan!?" she squeaked and covered her mouth.
"What a dramatic reaction…" Serefina scoffed and rolled her eyes exasperatedly, yet Kace didn't find it comfortable too, to be addressed that way.
"Oh! Right!" Lana's cold and stern expression from before had long gone. "I saw your white beast!"
"You can stop talking too loud, if the baby is awake I will throw you out of the car." Kace threatened her, starting to regret his decision to bring her along with them.
From the rear view mirror, Serefina shot him a look that said; I told you she will be a nuisance.
"But you are the legend that my parents would often tell us before we go to sleep." No matter how hard her demeanor before, Lana was still a little girl, who had not yet lost her childish and innocent side entirely. Her reaction now proved it.
"Wow! A legend…" Serefina almost laughed by that. "May I know what kind of story of the Donovan?" her voice was thick with sarcasm.
"You don't know?" Lana turned her head, confused. "Nobody knows?"
"Girl, I don't have a fairytale about them to help me to sleep." Serefina rolled her eyes again.
"Yeah, but you sleep with one of them." Kace remarked as he raised his eyebrows defiantly, challenging the witch to retort his words.
Instead of that, Serefina stepped on the acceleration deeper, rumbling growls behind her throat.
Lana would have been knocked on the dashboard if it wasn't because of her seatbelt that saved her. She shot an angry look at Serefina dan the witch ignored completely.
However, her eyes shone when she talked about the story that her mother would tell her before she fell asleep.
It was about the great war. How they have brought their people out of the battle with victory. The battle between the Lycanthropes and the devil.
The way Lana recounted it for them, made the Donovan sounded so majestic that the resulted of the war was nothing but joy and pride.
Though the truth wasn't like that…
Kace experienced all of that first hand and he knew how the feeling of despair that filled the air after the war was ended.
It sounded nice only because the story was meant to tell as a fairytale.
"I bet no one from your brothers know about this sweet story of them." Serefina commented.
"I think they will not care about it either." Kace replied as he crossed his thick arms in front of his chest and glanced at the sky that had turned into a golden color. "Why didn't you go to the other pack?" he asked Lana again to change the subject.
Lana gritted her teeth. "They attacked the nearby packs too."