396: THIS WAS THE TIME

THIS WAS THE TIME

"Sorry for the trouble. Don't you worry, I will return the favor." Kace spoke carelessly and smirked deviously when he saw how the expression on Maximus' face changed.0

Kace thought Maximus would try to attack him, but he didn't do that as he decided to leave the room before he changed his mind and had an unnecessary fight with Kace. The younger brother of Donovan was known for his ignorant personality.

The sound of the door slamming shut reverberated through the walls. Kace's dark eyes stared at it for long time before he walked toward the window and watched as the night fell and the lights from the city near the castle that were akin to the stars in the sky.

Kace knew it.

Jedrek would issue this order sooner or later. He was completely against the fact that the moon Goddess had lifted their curse and blessed them with mates since his older brother has Serefina and always thought of her as his mate.

Jedrek didn't care about his destined mate and he thought his other brothers also had the same idea as him without even asking a single question about it.

Especially when they knew about what kind of creature that their mates would be.

A guardian angel.

Such a weak creature as the mate of the most powerful Lycan in this realm. It would turn out as a joke even if a single soul came to know about it.

Jedrek was the firstborn, thus his pride and vanity was hundred times worse than the average Alpha. He wanted their blood to not be tainted by a lowly creature like those guardian angels.

Jedrek was very controlling, even to his own brothers.

Probably because of that as well, Torak chose to leave this realm and built his own empire.

However, Kace couldn't do the same thing. There was something that held him back. The great war not only left him with visible wounds, but also evoked this strange feeling that shook his conscience deeply.

Though neither Torak nor Kace showed their stance about this mate thing, but deep down in Kace's heart he was longing to have his own mate.

Kace didn't know about Torak. But for him, mate was the essence of their existence, at least that was how Kace felt about it.

Regardless of the fact that his mate would be the weakest creature like a guardian angel, a piece of information that was quite disturbing, Kace still felt excited about finding his other half one day.

But, the problem was; Jedrek would kill his brothers' mates without hesitation and he was very determined about it.

Kace closed his eyes and when he opened them, they had turned to its original blue color.

This wasn't the time to break loose yet. This wasn't the right time because Kace was waiting for 'that' signal.

The witch would send him a cue when he could leave this realm. Having Jedrek as his brother was both a blessing and a curse.

Until that time, Kace needed to keep it low.

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The year when Serefina left the realm was the darkest days of Jedrek's regime.

He turned feral and killed a lot of his hunters when they returned with nothing. No news about Serefina whereabouts.

Jedrek even went to extra lengths to trespass other creatures' territories and messed up with the mages from the northern coven. The council who tried to oppose and advise him otherwise would end up dead right after the moment they started raising their voices.

Jedrek didn't believe that Serefina could leave his territory with no one realizing it.

Those dark days continued for a year and when Serefina's name turned into a taboo topic, the situation became much better as well.

There was less blood under Jedrek's throne.

Meanwhile, Kace was kept under strict supervision. He wasn't allowed to leave his room without Jedrek's permission.

Even when he could leave his room, Maximus or his people would come to stick their noses too deep for his liking, yet Kace ignored them all the time.

Jedrek has no evidence that Kace was somehow involved in Serefina's escape from this place. He just knew that on the night Serefina disappeared, Kace also couldn't be found anywhere until he returned two days later and said that he just shifted into his beast and enjoyed the nature.

Though it sounded fishy, but that was what Kace always did when he couldn't be reached.

During that stressful period of time, the only thing that kept the youngest Donovan to strive was the thought that one day he would find his mate.

Kace tried to think positively when he had not yet heard about the news that Maximus had managed to find anything about his or Torak's mate.

Except the three of them, Serefina and Maximus, Kace didn't think that there was another person who knew about this thing.

Decades passed just like a blink of an eye, especially for those Lycans who were blessed with eternal life.

Time wasn't something that they needed to be worried about and also wasn't something that they have to count as days after days changed and never came back.

Serefina's name had never been mentioned, but it was long imprinted in people's mind that their Alpha could turn the realm upside down when it came to something that he cared for the most.

Even after a hundred thousand days had passed, not even a single piece of news about Serefina could be found. It was not for nothing that she was called as the great witch.

She hid herself very well.

Until today, when the sign from her finally arrived.

It was a sunny day with warm sunrays bathing Kace's body as he laid lazily on the couch in the west yard of the castle, enjoying the wind that blew his hair.

However, all of a sudden, the day turned into the dark of the night as the bright sun was covered with shadow in an instant.

The guards around Kace started panicking and urged him to go back to his room, as solar eclipse was a bad omen.

However, Kace has his own interpretation of this phenomenon.

This was the sign that he had been waiting for.

This was the time.

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