It was rather hard to comprehend what Zuri was actually trying to say, but Lorent got the gist of it. He stared at her for a while and then shook his head.
“You don’t need to worry about that. I have been thinking about it thoroughly, so you don’t need to bother.” He tossed his cloak to her. “Now shut your mouth and sleep.”
Zuri didn’t listen to him, she used the cloak as a blanket and shaking her legs, humming that unknown song. Probably, if she met with Khaos again, she was going to ask what song that he was humming.
It was only around an hour later that Zuri drove to the peaceful place that she created with the help of the drug.
***
Zuri was sure that Lorent had been in this place more than she could guess, he had gone to Great Palace for so many times, because he knew this place like the back of his hand.
He moved so easily and he knew all the secret path to get here.
Meanwhile, this was not the first time for Zuri to be in this place, yet it didn’t bring a good memory or comfort for her.
Her first experience was suck, because it was when Elijah tried to complete the beauty blood. Zuri remembered the pain from from it.
However, the irony of the situation was; what happened with Elijah was something that she would go through again right now.
The same thing would happen and the story had repeated itself.
Despite that fact, Zuri found this very funny. Khaos managed to save her the first time, but she was not sure if he was going to make it this time. But, the truth was; she didn’t think she wanted to be saved.
She only wanted this life to end.
The life she lived was a wretch.
She didn’t think she would miss this life when she was gone.
The process might be painful, but she knew that, her life was nothing but pain. Yet, it would only hurt for a while.
At this point, Zuri didn’t think that was the scariest thing that could happen to her, because in her eyes, somehow life could be more terrifying than anything else, and she could vouch for that.
They went inside the Great Palace and avoiding the warriors from the Great Lunar Kingdom, also warrior from Celeste Kingdom and Wolfdale Kingdom.
Lauren knew how to dodge them all and right now he took her to the inner palace where she saw a throne.
This must be the throne room of this palace. It was magnificent. It showed how great the old dynasty of the lycan was.
Even now, with only the remaining of their glory, you would be able to see it. No wonder the three Kingdoms were trying to find the treasure here. From the look of it alone, you could tell there were so many treasures was hiding beneath this place.
However, there was one thing that surprised Zuri the most, because she saw someone who was sitting on the throne.
Zuri stopped walking, she was shocked to see him here.
“You are already here. Thank you for coming.”
And beside Zuri, Lorent tensed up. She was not sure what was going on here.
To feel how tensed Lorent was, it made Zuri questioned the whole ordeal. Did he not expect this encounter?
Meanwhile, Lorent looked at the other person with disgust in his eyes. He was angry, but he tried to compose himself.
Right before them, the mysterious man in black cloak was sitting on the throne, this was the same person that Zuri saw when Elijah kidnapped her and performed the curses to her before Khaos killed him.
She knew it was the same person because this man was wearing the same cloak like before. His figure was the same, but she couldn’t pinpoint who he was because she couldn’t smell his scent.
That was why she was even more shocked when that man took off the cloak and revealed himself to Zuri and Lorent.
That man smiled at her as if they were a good friend, as if they were in good relationship and he was there to have a tea with her.
“You…?” Zuri said with bewilderment. “No way it’s you.”
The man smiled politely. “Yes, it’s me,” He said with with calmness in his voice and gentleness in his eyes.
Out of everyone else, Zuri didn’t think it would be him who was the mastermind behind it all. Never in million years, she would have guessed it.
However, if she thought about it carefully again, she would see how made sense everything was.
***
Khaos was so close to Zuri, he knew Lorent would take her to Great Palace.
Before he arrived, he had informed all the people in the Three Deadly Ways to put their guard up and to be ready for a battle, since he thought Lorent would not go down without a fight, he must have someone to support him as the backup.
However, he was a few hours away from the Great Palace. He couldn’t reach there in time because of that fucking decoy Lorent left him really messed up with the pursuit, because of that, it took Khaos two days to figure out that he was being tricked.
After he killed those decoys, Khaos needed to start from scratch and he had to go to the Great Palace without stopping.
He even left behind Caiden and the other five warriors who came with him because they couldn’t catch up with his pace.
Currently, Caiden and the order five warriors were two hours behind him. That was why right now Khaos was moving alone. He was not going to join the warrior he had prepared ahead of time, but he would go directly to the Great Palace just in case Lorent would do something to Zuri.
However, he still couldn’t figure out how he was going to complete the Beauty Blood without Magic user, because as far as he knew, the rest of the magic user was still with Bryden. Khaos only took Dezgar and ten other magic users. Therefore, he didn’t think Lorent would be able to do that.
“Zuri…” Khaos saw a bracelet on the ground. It was the same bracelet that the twin gave to her. She kept complaining that the bracelet was ugly, yet she was still wearing it.
***
“Long time no see sister. How are you?” The mysterious man in black cloak greeted Zuri with apologetic smile. “I am sorry that we have to meet this way. I am sorry to hide my identity all this time from you.”
On the other hand, Zuri looked at him with confusion, as if she didn’t believe with her own eyes. As though, this was one of her hallucinations like usual.
“Declan?”
She didn’t know whether it was the drug that she used or what, because right now her head was spinning. She was seeing Declan.
Declan was her second brother, her quiet second older brother. He was born from the same mother like Rhett and Silas.
However, all this time, Declan had never shown any interest in anything at all aside from his interests to the remaining of the old dynasty such as the Great Palace. The old dynasty of the lycan.
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