397: SOLAR ECLIPSE

SOLAR ECLIPSE

Kace sat still with a dark expression on his face when two guards approached him to bring him back to his bedroom.2

"My lord, you have to go back to your room now." One of the guards asked Kace respectfully. He opened his hand to show the path to the castle, as if all of a sudden, Kace had forgotten the way to get there.

The solar eclipse wouldn't last for very long, thus Kace had to act quickly to crossover to another realm.

"My lord." The other guards reminded Kace because he didn't move at all and looked out of focus. "Is there something bothering you?"

However, instead of answering the guard's question, Kace turned into his beast and attacked those guards.

They didn't expect this, hence Kace had the upper hand in knocking them down to the ground easily.

It was hard enough to leave them unconscious, and taking their lives was a different matter altogether. Their healing ability would give him around five minutes of heads up until they regained their consciousness and then, Kace would be long gone.

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The white beast pumped his four legs as fast as he could, throwing away his obstacles one by one before leaving  them injured, so they couldn't chase after him.

This solar eclipse also helped Kace's beast to escape from the guards, who were surrounding the castle.

As solar eclipse was a bad omen for Lycanthropes, Jedrek as the Alpha of the Lycanthropes Kingdom, was needed to be in a safety place while he completed a certain ritual.

Therefore, all of the guards would gather together in front of Selene's temple, where Jedrek would stay inside during the solar eclipse.

Because Kace wasn't really into that sort of things and didn't really believe in the bad omen that was brought by the eclipse, he violated all the rules and escaped.

The castle and the town nearby were very quiet as everyone chose to stay inside their rooms, shielding themselves from the darkness.

Except for a few guards inside the castle, who crossed paths with Kace's white beast, there were not many people in the town that saw him.

Under the absence of the sunlight, the movement of the beast was akin to a white arrow that pierced through the dark.

Once Kace arrived at the border of the dessert of no return, he leaped over it as a familiar sensation crawled all over his fur.

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The bustling city under the night sky was the first thing that Kace realized about his new environment. He walked along a street, which had many houses standing majestically on either side of the road.

At the end of the road, Kace saw her. The woman who had managed to make his older brother go berserk and turn the entire realm upside down because of losing her.

The smile on her lips was the exact smirk that Kace remembered the last time they met each other.

At that time, Serefina told him that she would leave the realm and the surprising part was, instead of telling Jedrek, she was telling him.

Kace was surprised and thought her peculiar decision was something that was out of her character, but she decisively didn't want to tell him her reason when Kace asked for one.

As far as Kace knew, Serefina was head over heels for Jedrek, so was his brother toward her. The question that still remained; why did she choose to leave?

And Kace still couldn't figure it out until now.

Years ago, on the night Serefina left the realm, she just said that she would find his mate and would give Kace a sign when she did find her. It was a call for him to come.

"Why do you think I want a mate? I have lived long enough without a mate, I don't think I want her now, especially when she comes from a weak species like the guardian angels." That was what Kace said at that time.

Yet, Serefina just smiled at him and raised her head to look at the full moon in the sky.

That night was a full moon. Kace remembered it clearly.

She looked very serene in her white dress. Any traces of hostility and arrogance, which often marred her face, couldn't be seen.

"Those are Jedrek's words, not yours." Serefina said with certainty, as if she could see Kace's soul as easily as one could read an open book.

"Don't be too confident in yourself." Kace grumbled as he crossed his arms.

At that time, he was unsure whether he wanted a mate or not, but the beast in him knew him better and that he indeed needed his other half. His soul mate. The very essence of his existence.

Therefore, Kace had waited for this moment, for more than a few decades.

Waiting for Serefina's signal and now, Kace could feel all the adrenaline rushing through his veins. The signal from Serefina appeared, so did his mate, right?

"Don't smirk at me." Kace greeted Serefina when they finally faced each other under the street light that illuminated their surroundings.

Serefina raised her eyebrows questioningly. "That's how you greet me after such a long time?"

"What? You want a hug?" Kace opened his arms widely, inviting the witch in to his warm embrace.

But, Serefina's smile dropped as she looked at Kace with disdain in her lime green eyes. "Disgusting."

"Then?" Kace dropped his arms and crossed them in front of his chest. A gesture that showed that he was a little bit nervous.

"I think she is inside." Serefina looked over at the house across the road where they were standing.

Kace followed the witch's line of sight and looked at a big house with all the lights turned on, illuminating every dark corner of the house.

"She is inside?" Kace asked breathily. His heart was beating so fast, he didn't know that anticipation felt like this.

"I think so." Serefina tilted her head.

"What do you mean?" Kace frowned.

Yet, before they could continue their conversation, a familiar scent assaulted Kace's nose as he stared toward the street behind the witch with hostility in his eyes.

"Maximus."Kace said his name icily.

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