Chapter 660: Furious
Chapter 660: Furious
"I once had a mate." said Tordoff. It was clear to hear his sorrow behind his voice. But to really understand his feelings, she would need to see his face. Unfortunately, she couldn't. The expression in his face was buried in his folded arms, leaving only his copper-colored eyes exposed to the dim light of the dungeon.
"What happened?" Lilac narrowed her eyes, trying to get a better sight of him.
"She died," he said simply, but there were the most complicated feelings followed behind his words.
Lilac bit her lips when she heard the heart-shattering confession from the lycan. It reminded her of what Selene told her a long time ago. She said that losing half of your soul, your mate, was not something that all lycans, and werewolves could bear. From experiencing such tragedy, some of them would die because of the unbearable pain, and some would go feral. Only very few of the shifters could make it through.
With what Selene had told her, all this time Lilac was convinced that although Jedrek was trying to kill her long when she was only an infant, this time when they finally met with each other, he wouldn't even try to bring himself to hurt her. Or that he couldn't do it. And she believed it.
However what she believed had to go down. Her recent experience proved that she was all wrong. It was completely wrong to underestimate what that monstrous lycan was capable of doing.
"I'm sorry to hear that." Lilac offered her condolences to Tordoff. But again, he could just let out a dry laugh that echoed through the empty cell.
"You don't have to feel sorry," he said as he shook his head. "She didn't even know that I was her mate when she died."
Lilac frowned. She found herself drawn to Tordoff's story. She was curious, and without realizing it, her pain on her broken arm was somehow forgotten. "What do you mean?"
Tordoff sighed deeply before he recalled his first encounter with his mate. "She was a beautiful lycan, a warrior. Some of her pack members went rogue and attacked her pack. She was badly injured and died not long after that."
There was silence again after that. But Lilac kept quiet, so that she wouldn't interrupt the sorrow that Tordoff felt. "I smelled her scent." a faint smile beamed on the corner of his lips. "The most alluring smell that I ever came across. The beast inside me started to wail, urging me to find out who owned that scent. But, the moment I found her, it was too late."
There was something about his story that somehow pulled down her heart. She watched how heartbroken Tordoff was. The sight of him that way was hurtful. She wanted to move closer and comfort him, but it was impossible for her to do that.
"The pain of losing my partner wasn't that bad, because the bond between us wasn't that deep yet. I overcame the pain somehow. After all, we didn't even know each other anyway. That fact really helped me a lot in getting through it all. But I always find myself thinking that it would be nice if she were still alive." Tordoff flashed Lilac a silly grin, an attempt to brush off his current feelings.
"She must be a beautiful girl," Lilac said softly, because she really didn't know what to say.
"Yes. She was." Tordoff agreed.
And with the sad story ended, the both of them spent the entire night talking about so many other things, until Lilac was too tired and fell asleep.
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PRANG!!!
Another poor vase was shattered to the ground. Jedrek furiously hurled it against the wall. His entire body was shaking as his canines elongated. He was trying his best to reign his anger that coursed in his veins. The Alpha king almost shifted into the beast. It took him a tremendous effort to win the battle against the beast within, and stay in his human skin.
The beast was enraged for what he had done to Lilac. The sound of her broken bones and her cry from earlier echoed in his head repeatedly. It was a whole another level of torture for him and the beast especially. Yet, Jedrek didn't give in to it, he was determined to not come around and check on Lilac. His bold heartless determination caused him to be in his current state.
PRANG!!!
This time, Jedrek smashed a gigantic mirror. The glass shattered beneath his feet. His blood was dripping down from his knuckles, but it didn't last long. In no time, the blood stopped. His cut open skin was closed, leaving no trace of any wounds. However, his mind wandered back to Lilac again. How was her broken arm? Had someone treated her wound?
With that thought crossing his mind, Jedrek smashed another thing within his sight.
"Jedrek what happened?!" Lyrus came inside the room when he felt Jedrek's beast was surfacing. He looked at the shattering pieces on the ground "What are you doing?" The Beta was flabbergasted the moment he watched the entire chamber that had turned into a tremendous huge mess. And also, he was deeply confused by the Alpha king who didn't look like himself.
"Jedrek," Lyrus called him again carefully. He didn't want to end up receiving the Alpha king's wrath. One could see that Jedrek was on the verge of losing himself to the beast. Jedrek turned around slowly, he glowered at Lyrus. The anger that he felt shook his entire being, all that he could see was red.
"GET OUT!! LEAVE!!" His voice thundered inside the wreckage chamber, his voice held an unimaginably powerful force. It made Lyrus take a few steps back in fear. The Beta didn't need to be told twice. Once he realized that there was no way he could talk things out with Jedrek in his current state, he went out of the room and stayed outside. The beast roared in anger, destroying everything that he touched.
Lyrus was dumbfounded. He had never seen Jedrek to be this mad. Not since Serefina fled from this realm.
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Lilac woke up when she heard a rustling sound, but her eyelids were too heavy to open. It needed a great effort for her to adjust her vision with the dim light surrounding her. The lantern that Tordoff brought had burnt out.
"Tordoff...?" Lilac called him softly.
She heard the general's erratic breathing, and was concerned by it.
"Are you okay?" her voice was barely heard, almost like a whisper inside this cold dungeon.
"I'm alright," Tordoff finally answered her.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Lilac was worried. He didn't sound like he was okay. There was something bothering him, she could tell it for sure.
"I'm fine," the way he answered her wasn't convincing at all.
"I know there's something going on! You are anything but fine!" Lilac moved slightly to get a better look at Tordoff. But then the pain in her arm appeared again, reminding her about her broken arm. She gritted her teeth when the wave of pain washed over her, helplessly trying hard to endure it.
"I'm fine, it's just…" Tordoff hesitated. "His Majesty the Alpha king is currently furious."