Chapter 702: We know, but they dont
Chapter 702: We know, but they don't
After Lilac and Jedrek were trapped in the tavern because of the rain, the Alpha King got a better idea on how to introduce Lilac to their culture.
And now, here Lilac was, trapped with Warlock as she listened to him about the history of this realm and everything that entailed.
Lilac was not happy in the slightest about this and felt that it was far too boring to listen to Warlock's monotone rambling.
"Listen." Lilac put down the book in her hands, a little bit harder as she slammed it on to the table that prompted Warlock to raise his brows. "I don't know what the use of me learning all of this when what we are facing now has nothing to do with this."
"Because the King declared you as his queen," Warlock answered curtly, but then his eyes became curious when he looked at Lilac. "Are you really his mate?"
"I am," Lilac replied simply, as if that fact didn't interest her at all.
"I don't believe it," Warlock mumbled and Lilac raised her brows, misunderstanding his words. "No, I mean; I don't believe it because the Alpha had been cursed by the moon goddess…" Warlock didn't need to elaborate further about the curse, there was a tacit understanding among the people regarding this topic.
"Well, here I am. A token of gratitude from the moon goddess because the Donovans won the war with the devils." There was thick sarcasm dripping in the way Lilac spoke.
On the other hand, Warlock wanted to ask more, yet in the end he resolved to keep all the questions for himself. It felt like he was prying into his King's personal life.
If the King said Lilac was his mate, then she was his destined mate. No questions needed to be asked. "So, should we continue our lesson, your grace?"
Lilac cringed when she heard Warlock calling her 'your grace' and threw him a bewildered look.
"No," Lilac said sternly and stood up from her chair. "Let's call it a day."
"But, your ceremony will be soon. At least, you have to know about the details regarding the ceremony," Warlock retorted.
Lilac sighed and averted her attention to the sky, which was visible through the window at her left side, twilight had already fallen and the dim evening light seeped through the leaves. Soon it would grow darker and Lilac had been listening to Warlock's lectures since lunch.
"No. Enough for today." Lilac walked out of the room, not in the mood to bother herself to listen to Warlock's complaints. "Where is Jedrek?"
"The last time I saw him, the king was in the throne room," he informed her.
"Okay," Lilac replied. She needed to talk about this with him.
The moment the door was closed and Lilac was no longer inside the room, Warlock slumped on his chair. "I don't want to do this either."
He couldn't understand, why Jedrek wanted her to learn all of this stuff. Even if she was his mate and she would be crowned as their queen, the interaction between Lilac and Jedrek was not like something that should be between a couple of mates.
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Eaton was shaking his head. "I don't agree with your decision Jedrek," he voiced out his objection. "Why do want to have a mating ceremony? At a time like this! I really don't understand."
"You don't need to," Jedrek replied casually, he looked in to the far distance. The evening sky was exceptionally beautiful at this time around, along with the sound of singing crickets in the air.
"Jedrek, it is not the right time to hold a mating ceremony." Eaton was adamant to oppose Jedrek's idea about the ceremony.
"I didn't say that it will happen tomorrow."
"Yes, you said it will happen right after you finished dealing with Maximus," Eaton groaned in frustration. "I don't even know what you will do with Maximus if the three generals looking after him had managed to bring him back."
"Isn't that very obvious?" Jedrek glanced at Eaton.
"What?" Eaton raised his eyebrows. "You will sent him on exile?"
"I will kill him," Jedrek replied without any hesitation. Now that he had already killed Diana, Janus had vanished, the castle was destroyed, the city central was ruined and the gate to tartarus had been opened, Maximus's existence was no longer needed.
"I know, the death penalty is a suitable punishment for him, but after you killed him, you will have to deal with the eastern region." Eaton reminded him. "His influence there knows no boundaries, the eastern people will revolt once the news about Maximus's death reached their ears."
"I will deal with them myself," Jedrek said.
Eaton sighed. "So, correct me if I am wrong, but your plan is to kill Maximus, hold a mating ceremony and then march toward the eastern region to deal with the rebels?"
"More or less," Jedrek replied tonelessly.
"Tell me Jedrek, why are you hell bent on holding the ceremony when you know this is not at all the right time for something like that?" Eaton narrowed his eyes, trying to read Jedrek's mind, but when even Killian, the mind reader couldn't do so, what's more of him.
"Once the news about me having a guardian angel, as my destined mate was made public, those shifters out there, will start to reject her." After all, the image of a weak creature someone like a guardian angel becoming their queen wouldn't be very appealing to them, thanks to the general knowledge about how weak they were and with the nature of the shifters who looked down on the guardian angels.
"So, do you think they will not reject her after the ceremony? Those shifters out there, despise her, therefore, why don't we keep this matter as a secret instead of flaunting the guardian angel around?"
"She is not that weak," Jedrek finally admitted it.
"We know, but they don't," Eaton said matter of factly.
"Then it is her job to convince them." Jedrek concluded. "Moreover, I don't want to use the guardian angel as we did in the first war. If she can't deal with the people, how can she handle the war? In spite of the fact that I don't want her as my mate, you vividly know very well the pain of losing your mate. I will not go through that unnecessary pain."