Chapter 630: The moon goddess
Chapter 630: The moon goddess
Moonlight shone brightly inside the room that was filled with heart-wrenching cries from a woman.Inside that room, the woman was crying beside the empty cradle where her beautiful newborn baby girl was sleeping a few hours ago. But now the baby was no longer breathing.
The mother cradled her daughter close to her, as tears streamed down her face like a river during a heavy rainy season.Beside her, the father didn't look any better as he rubbed his face roughly, whispering words of encouragement to his wife and himself as well. Meanwhile, the people around the grieving parents were sobbing silently, feeling their pain.
Doctor who lived next door had been called to check on their little angel.But, nothing he could do to help her.
Nevertheless, they already knew it the moment they saw an ugly mark around their daughter's neck, they knew that they had lost her…
In front of them, a woman with a divine beauty was standing just a few meters away from them.Yet, no one was aware of her presence.
Her long flowing hair was adorned with a crescent moon crown. She was wearing a silver dress, as her body radiated the hazy moonlight.
She was Selene, the Moon Goddess. Her brilliant eyes dimmed slightly when she watched the infant in her mother's arms.
She was standing there all night.Watching those human mourning for the passing of the innocent soul. Her expression was unreadable, but her eyes never left the newborn.
When the horrible night passed, and the first light of the sun illuminated the gloomy room, the baby was finally left lying alone in her cradle while the people busied themselves preparing for her funeral.
The parents needed some time to calm themselves as they wondered and pondered what had happened to their beautiful child.
The light from the sun kissed the baby as the Goddess walked towards her. She ran her fingers on her pale cheeks, and caressed her puckered lips. The baby's little fingers curled up helplessly.
"My poor child," Selene whispered.
And then, minutes later, when someone entered the room, they couldn't find the baby in her crib anymore.
She was gone.
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"I killed the baby," Maximus reported it to the Alpha.
Outside of the window of Jedrek's royal chamber, the moon shone brightly.But he didn't appreciate its beauty, not even a little bit.
"But apparently the baby was not your brother's mate," Maximus added with his head slightly lowered in shame. He just found out about this information six months after the night when he killed the baby himself. "For Alpha Torak, we are having a hard time entering his territory. Your second brother doesn't seem to want you to interfere in his business there."
"Leave him," Jedrek spoke tersely.
Afterward he didn't say anything, or gave his thoughts about the information of his other brother. He just stared at the red liquid inside his crystal glass between his fingers.
"Any order, my Lord?" The awkward silence from his Alpha made Maximus feel uneasy. He feared his Alpha the most when he didn't talk like this.
Jedrek tilted his head, spared him a single glance before he returned his attention back to his glass. "You know your order," he spoke rigidly.
Of course, Maximus knew. After all, he had been chasing Kace for these past six months. That damn lycan was too good at running away.Not only that, Maximus didn't expect Kace knew pretty well about the human realm.
The youngest Donovan, who always appeared unreliable, and careless, was actually good at something and had a decent survival instinct.
"Leave," Jedrek waved his hand to dismiss him.
Yet, Maximus took reluctant steps when his eyes fixed on the glass in Jedrek's hand. "You need to drink that Alpha, so you can feel more relaxed."
Jedrek gave a side eyes look, yet he raised his glass, and drank all the liquid inside it.
However, once the door was closed.He spit all of that, and crushed the glass in his hand, the sharp shard stabbed his palm and blood was oozing out before the wound healed in a matter of seconds.
Jedrek didn't even flinch when it happened, but his eyes looked dull, and dangerous.
His mind reeled on the information about the baby that was killed half a year ago.
If she was not Kace's mate, then the possibility was that the baby was either Torak's mate or his…
The chance was fifty percent that he had killed his own mate.
Which was…
Good.
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It was another lazy evening when a young teenage girl walked in the garden filled with purple lilac flowers, humming a song that only she knew, just to kill her time.
Her skin was as fair as jade with her long black hair tumbling over her shoulders, and falling freely down her back. Her hair reached all the way to her hips, swaying gently in the evening breeze.
She was a beauty and no one will argue with that statement.
However this evening, her cheerful demeanor couldn't be seen. And instead, her expression contorted in a disagreement.
She knew this time would come, but she had never agreed since the first time Selene told her about that story.
The story of the Alpha King who killed his mate.
She wanted to be anywhere, but near that kind of person, or… that kind of lycan in this case.
"My answer is still 'no'," she said,pouting her lips as she turned around to face the Moon Goddess, who appeared out of nowhere. She could feel her presence, thus she knew that the person she had been waiting for, finally graced her with her presence.
Selene walked towards her, and every step that she took left sparkling dust in her wake, just like always, the Goddess looked heavenly.
"Unfortunately, you don't have a choice for this," Selene stared at her softly. "It is the time. Today you are turning seventeen, you can't deny the responsibility any longer, Lilac."
All the lilac flowers around the two women slightly withered.
"Why do I have to go to the man who wants to kill me?" Lilac couldn't understand.