Chapter 871 - THE MYSTERY OF TIME

When Jedrek returned to the tent, he saw that his mate was still fast asleep and her brows creased tightly as her body shivered from the cold wind which was blowing in when Jedrek opened the tent's curtain.

The king immediately closed it and kept aside his cloak before he laid down beside Lilac.

However, the coldness from his skin, which came into contact with her n.a.k.e.d body, woke up Lilac, she opened her eyes and the wrinkle on her eyebrows deepened.

"Why are you so cold?" she asked sleepily, as Jedrek put the blanket between them, so she wouldn't feel his cold skin.

"Sleep," Jedrek said in a coaxing tone. He didn't want to explain anything to Lilac nor did he wished to recall what had happened earlier.

However, Lilac was not pleased, her curiosity got the best of her, as she pushed back her sleepiness and forced herself to open her eyes.

"What is it?" Lilac stretched out her hand and touched Jedrek's face as she tilted his head in her direction, forcing him to look at her. "Were you outside just now? Something happened?"

The first thought that came into her mind was; something might have happened with the wizard from the eastern region.

She would have never thought it was something else entirely.

"No, little flower, just sleep," Jedrek said, kissing her palms and met her curious gaze. However, when he noticed the way she stared back at him, the king knew that his mate didn't want to let go of this matter without an answer.

"Tell me," Lilac pleaded, she could see the complexity in his eyes and this made her feel unease. "You promised to share everything with me and won't lie."

Yes, Jedrek did said that, but it was easier to say.

"I met the devil," Jedrek said in a passive tone.

Upon hearing that, Lilac's eyes opened wide, she propped herself upon her elbows and looked down at Jedrek. "How?"

"There was a scent that I am familiar with, so I went out to check on it," Jedrek said truthfully. He caressed Lilac's small face and tucked a few strands of her hair to ease her mind.

"Then, what happened?" Lilac asked again. She placed her hand on top of his when he cupped her face.

"Nothing," Jedrek replied. "I tried to kill her, but you know it yourself that we can't kill the devil," he said lightly.

"Her? was it Beelzebub?" Lilac asked again, she rested her head against his chest and heard his heartbeat, while Jedrek caressed her back. She loved it when he touched her soothingly.

"No, Asmodeus," Jedrek said.

And, silence stretched between them after Jedrek said that. Both of them relished this moment, as the spark between them offered consolation and peace for their complicated minds, but then Lilac asked softly.

"What kind of scent that made you went out to look for it yourself?" she remembered Jedrek mentioning that it was a familiar scent.

Jedrek was silent for a moment before he answered with the same passive tone, "Citrus."

Lilac bit her lips, she didn't know what kind of scent that 'she' had, since she didn't have the same strong senses like Lycans, therefore she asked in a low voice.

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"How does her scent smell like?" she waited for Jedrek's reply, but he had never answered her and the night just passed like that, filled with perturbation.

The peaceful spell was broken and both of them felt complicated when they thought it was best to not say it out loud, yet the freckle of this apprehension would only pile up.

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Raine watched in horror as the nine heads of those enormous snakes appeared from under the frozen river and their mouths started to screech in anguish. The sounds of that creatures' cry were terrifyingly deafening.

Raine scrambled back to put some distance as far as possible she could, between her and those monsters, but her body seemed like it didn't want to coordinate with her mind.

She had never seen something like this. She couldn't move an inch and sat dumbstruck with her eyes wide open.

And from behind her, the phoenix flapped its wings as it let out a warning cry and flew very low to attack one of the nine snakes' head. It swiftly pecked its eyes and flew away after making sure that that snake went blind.

Raine gasped as she watched the same thing happening for the second snake and then the third snake.

Because of the distraction from the phoenix, none of the snakes were interested to even glance in Raine direction and she was grateful for that.

She continued watching until the raging bird blinded the fifth snake, as the phoenix avoided the counter attacks swiftly, its agility amazed Raine, only if she was not dumbstruck like right now, she would have been cheering jumping up and down in joy, encouraging the phoenix.

However, as Raine sat on the ground dumbfounded and was seemingly in a daze, even forgetting to stand up, she heard someone whistling from behind her and she saw something flash before her eyes in high speed.

Startled, Raine came to her senses and tried to stand up. She didn't want to be an easy prey for whatever creatures that appeared now.

Yet, when she noticed that it was someone familiar to her, Raine was stunned silly.

She knew her. No, they met once in the past!

It was the fae from the library in Rieka! The library, where Raine got the magical stone to answer her questions about the future. A dreadful future.

It was her, and Raine was sure about it!

What happened here?

In between her conflicting thoughts, Raine breathed her name. "Purple.."

She knew it was quite confusing, but it was the same fae she saw in the library and the lovely creature's reaction told her that her guess was right.

The fae named purple turned around and blinked her eyes at Raine, she frowned and flapped her wings, which were akin to dragonfly's wings with various shades of blue and yellow.

The friendly smile that Raine remembered was nowhere to be seen now, but she knew the fae wouldn't hurt her. Yet, her question confused Raine even more.

"Do I know you?" she asked.

"Yes, we met before!" Raine summed up a little bit courage that surged in her being as she stood up. "We have met before."

However, even before the fae could deny it, Raine noticed a familiar feeling, as realization finally hit her.