Chapter 784: The night before the mating ceremony
Chapter 784: The night before the mating ceremony
"What are you doing out there?" Jedrek quickened his steps when he found Lilac standing outside of her room, leaning her back against the door.
The guardian angel raised her head and stared at him through her long lashes. "I can't sleep," she said in a low voice. "I was about to take a walk and approach you since you were standing alone there, but then I saw Serefina, staring at you from the distance."
Jedrek eyes darted to his left and from here, he was able to see the spot where he was standing a few minutes ago. However, the witch was no longer there now.
It was too far for him to catch Lilac's scent and too far for Lilac to hear his conversation with Serefina.
"I talked to her," Jedrek admitted.
"Hm," Lilac mumbled. Actually, she just watched the way Serefina was staring at Jedrek and then hid here because she didn't want to see what would happen next.
But thanks to Jedrek, now she knew that they had a conversation.
"Nothing happened," Jedrek tried to clarify the doubt in Lilac's eyes. "It is over between us."
"Yes, you said it before," Lilac murmured and then turned around to enter her room. "I think I will take some rest."
"You don't believe me," Jedrek said. He grabbed Lilac's wrist and turned her around to face him.
"I don't know what I should believe now," Lilac replied truthfully. She didn't even know what to expect or what she wanted from this kind of relationship. These feelings were too complicated for her.
Slowly, Jedrek freed her hand and watched as Lilac entered her room.
"Good night Jedrek," Lilac said in a soft voice.
Jedrek didn't answer her, but he stood there for a bit longer even after Lilac had closed the door and went to bed.
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"So, tomorrow is the ceremony?" Hope caressed the purple lilac, which was chosen by Lilac for the decorations and now these flowers covered almost every inch of the entire castle. "I can't imagine how lively tomorrow's event will be."
Jedrek didn't invite many important people, but those who were lucky enough to be invited, had just arrived this early morning.
The news about it had spread around the realm and many shifters and creatures had packed the city to celebrate it with their king. Apparently, it was a custom in this realm for the royal family to open the castle for commoners in an occasion like this.
It was a good opportunity to see their new queen, since most of them wanted to see Jedrek's destined mate, who was a guardian angel.
Even now there were a lot of people, who were still talking about how odd it was for their king to have 'the weak' guardian angel as his destined mate.
However, for some people, who had seen Lilac when she appeased the commotion about the missing people, it was clear that the guardian angel was not like what most of the people pictured about them.
Lilac was young, but she had a calm aura that let people be at ease around her and rely on her. The way she carried herself was fascinating.
Unfortunately, there were still many people, who didn't care enough to take a closer look at her and let their judgment clouded by the story about the guardian angels.
"Why don't we go out and celebrate it?" Hope stood in front of Lilac and Raine.
The three of them were inside Hope's room, talking about anything and everything while their mates went out to deal with a few things.
Calleb was in charge of babysitting the three of them and he looked far too bored to stay inside this room any longer.
"What do you want to celebrate? Tomorrow will be a huge celebration," Lilac said. "There is no need for an early celebration."
"No," Hope shook her head and sat down beside Lilac. "What I meant is a Bachelorette party."
"What?" Calleb frowned. "Bachelorette party is for someone who's getting married. Tomorrow is a mating ceremony."
"It is the same," Hope replied stubbornly. "Why don't we go outside? It is very boring here," she suggested, but Raine rejected the idea immediately.
"But, we are not allowed to leave the castle," she looked worried. Especially when Lilac's face lit up with excitement at Hope's idea.
"It had been a really long time since the last time I got to go out of the castle," Lilac rose to her feet, seemingly excited with the possibility of going out of this place.
"Come on Raine, we have not yet seen the city after we arrived here." Hope tried to persuade Raine, but the latter looked at Calleb for his opinion.
"I don't mind going out of this castle." Calleb shrugged his shoulders. "There will be many people out there, as long as you promise me that you will not roam around without me and didn't cause trouble, I don't mind taking a walk for a while."
Raine hit his shoulder with her small fist. "You are just bored of being here, right?" she knew him. Calleb would choose to be with Torak and Raphael to deal with their people or talk about something that concerned the war, rather than to babysit the three guardian angels.
However, Torak had said to Raine to stay with Calleb. Even though, he didn't specifically tell her to not to go out of the castle, but it was not something that he needed to address, since it was already very obvious.
"I am not," Calleb said, trying to put on a straight face, but failed miserably. The Gamma just hated to stay stiff.
"Come on Raine," Hope looked like she was about to jump excitedly. "We need to relax."
"Right, let's go!" Lilac already had their cloaks in her arms and gave them theirs, of course she didn't forget to give Calleb his. "I know a few places with delicious food."
"Food?"Calleb's eyes sparkled at the mention of food. Going outside to buy some food sounded more captivating than being here and listen to the three girls' chatter.
"Torak won't like this," Raine grimaced at Calleb.
But, he simply shrugged his shoulders. "Just kiss him and his anger will melt away."