Chapter 932: Black aura
Chapter 932: Black aura
Lord Bayle stared at his bony fingers that looked like dry branches and then he touched his face with those fingers just to find his cheeks feeling hollow to the touch, as though all of his teeth had fallen off, not only that, the skin that he touched was not like skin at all, its texture was akin to a sandpaper…
"What…" his voice trembled with fear and confusion, he touched his eyes and they were bulging out off their socket. "What… what did you do to me…"
Lord Bayle was about to approach Raine, yet his legs gave away just after he took a single step and he fell to the ground with a loud thud. When his bony kneecaps met the hard stone, it sounded like he had cracked his own bones.
In a matter of few seconds, the magnificent dragon lord was nothing but an old man, who was no longer able to hold himself up, as he looked up at the guardian angel.
"What did you do to me?" his voice sounded like the howling wind, filled with sorrow and fear.
Raine looked down at him, her eyes flashed with despise. "You can live like this," she said. "How daring of you to ask for Raphael's son."
Lord Bayle shook his head like a rattle drum. "I am sorry… I am sorry for my brazen actions… I will revoke the vow, I will revoke the vow…"
"You will revoke the vow?" Raine asked him and then she felt Torak walking forward to approach her.
"I will revoke the vow… I will not touch the baby!" he wailed, forgetting his high status as the dragon lord. Who would want to be a lord with such a horrible figure which couldn't even support his weight to stand straight.
"Do you think with your current condition, you can still touch the baby?" Raine said sharply, she felt Torak placing his arm on her hips, but she didn't hear him saying anything, as he let her to do what she wanted to do.
On the other hand, Stephan was flabbergasted upon seeing the horrifying scene in front of him. He wouldn't possibly think of connecting Raine to someone who was capable of withholding such tremendous power in her, if he didn't get to witness this with his own eyes.
He didn't take it seriously when Raine said he wouldn't like it when she lost her temper but now he believed her words. He wouldn't want to piss her off if she was capable of making the dragon shifter fall to that state.
It was worse than death! How could she do that?
"No, no…" Lord Bayle shook his head again.
"Then, tell us why do you want the baby?" Raine didn't want any harm to befall on Eddard, if this dragon lord took extra lengths just to have the baby, then there must be something important in it for him…
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Jedrek noticed that the flower inside the vase was withered, it was a flower which was created by Lilac using her power and no matter what, it would never wither.
However, now that Lilac was depleted of her powers, it looked like those flowers also lost their beauty.
Jedrek was still caressing her hair, while staring at Lilac's pale face. Her brows scrunched and her body felt freezing cold to the touch.
She looked very vulnerable and, maybe it was only Jedrek's mind that played trick on him, but every time she happen to endure a painful night like now, Lilac would look weaker than before.
Lilac whimpered again and Jedrek pushed her head softly against his chest.
"Is it that hurting this time?" Jedrek asked her. Seeing his mate in her current state, made him forget about the thoughts of Serefina, the fact that the witch had gone through a similar situation like Lilac. For only a while though…
"It hurts," Lilac said very softly, it was almost as if her lips only moved without making any sound.
"My little flower, is there something that I could do for you?" Jedrek was desperate, he wanted to do something to make her feel better, yet there was nothing he could do except for wishing this night would pass fast, so that Lilac wouldn't need to suffer any longer.
"No," Lilac said. "Just hold me…"
And that was what Jedrek did the whole night.
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"The baby is a hybrid from a very rare kind of fae…" The dragon lord spoke without hesitation about his motive to take the baby. "His late mother was half fae and half werewolf… the baby should have died, but his mother gave up her life for him…" he confessed without hesitation.
Torak listened to Lord Bayle's words, narrowing his eyes. He knew one such kind of fae and it was Purple…
[Purple?] Raine communicated with Torak, while listening to lord Bayle.
[Yes, but as long as I can remember, Purple is the only fae that is left of her kind.] Torak thought about it and he had never heard a report that said there was another fae like Purple.
[Could it be…that Lana and Purple… maybe some kind of relationship between them?] Raine looked at Torak, her eyes filled with unconcealed questions.
[I don't know, my love…] Torak said. [We need to let Purple see Eddard to know it, but I don't think we can bring him there.]
Rieka was in utter chaos and it wouldn't be safe for Eddard.
[We will bring him when all of this is over.] Raine really wished that she would be there when everything was over. [What you will do with them?]
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Purple led them out of the library and the phoenix soared to the dark and smoky sky, soon disappearing into the clouds, but it would reappear from time to time, indicating that it was still following them.
They didn't have to worry about the beautiful bird, because there was some other pressing thing that they should be worried about the most.
It was horribly dreadful outside the library. People ran rampant like headless chickens. They turned very aggressive after the crash of the planes and became hostile as they robbed a few grocery stores.
"These people became crazy," Hope looked around her and she could feel the hostility that emanated from them and for some reason, she saw the same strange black aura that once she saw on Raine.
What was that black aura?