A Mate For The Last Lycan-Chapter 182: THE GOLDEN STAMP

"This is what you wanted," Lyra slurred. She shifted her eyes from the ceiling to Zuri’s face. She scrutinized her, looking for the thing that she really needed right now. "Where is it?"

Zuri sat down next to her and pulled something from her pocket dress. Out there, the snow had melted and the weather was not really cold anymore.

"Show me the stamp first," Zuri said. Khaos had told her how the stamp looked like, she only needed to confirm it.

Princess Lyra chuckled and then handed it to Zuri, the thing that she had been hugging. Her brown hair spread on the white tile, she looked beautiful. Fragile and pale, but beautiful nonetheless.

Her soft brown eyes looked at Zuri with a mocking lilt, which she ignored when she took stamp from her hand and observed the item.

The stamp was gold in color and there was a crack at the edge, it was not bigger than her palm, but heavy enough considering the small size of it.

Zuri weighed it in her hand and looked at Lyra.

"Do you know that you will destroy yourself when you used this?" Zuri didn’t immediately give the opium to Lyra, because she wanted to have a conversation with her when she was sober enough to answer a few of her question.

"You don’t know. You don’t understand," she slurred. She blinked her eyes and her eyelashes rested softly on her cheekbones.

Princess Lyra was beautiful and young and if she was not trapped in her addiction, Zuri could imagine how brilliant those eyes were.

"Have you ever felt like you might be crazy because you heard a lot of voices in your head?"

Oh, she did. Zuri not only heard voices in her head, she saw dead people too.

However, she didn’t say anything and let her talking.

"The voices in my head keep telling me to do something atrocious. The voices keep telling me to... to..." Lyra tried to find the right word. "To kill... to bath in blood..."

Zuri narrowed her eyes, still, she didn’t say anything.

"But, this..." She waved her hand, Zuri was not sure what she meant. "I can escape from the voices in my head. It feels good. I feel good. I feel happy. Being a princess is not fun... they expected me to bear a child. I gave them a child and they want me to make more child. Child after child to pass down the legacy."

"Who are they?" Zuri finally asked, entertained her.

Lyra chuckled. "The men. My father. My mate. The elders in my father’s council. The more the children I have the merrier." Lyra laughed, as if the word was so funny. "I am with a baby now. They are happy. I am not."

Zuri didn’t think the baby would survive if she kept up with her addiction.

Tilted her head, Lyra was no longer staring at the ceiling, she looked at Zuri and stretched out her hand. "Where is that? Give me that before the voices returned. I don’t want to hear them."

Zuri placed the small packet in her hand and Lyra gave her a genuine smile, as if she thanked her. "Did... the voices disappear... when you are using it?"

"Hm. I can take some rest from the craziness in my mind..."

Zuri wanted to get some rest too. But, she reminded herself that she had Khaos. She didn’t need to be an addict. The voices had ceased down now when she was with him.

When Zuri walked out of the back door of the shrine, Khaos had been waiting for her there and she raised the golden stamp in her hand.

"Is this the right one?" Zuri asked, she handed the stamp to Khaos, who examined it and nodded.

"Yes. It is."

Khaos put his arm around her waist and they walked away from the shrine. Little did she know, the door to the inner shrine was opened, where it should be closed, so Lyra wouldn’t be able to go out when she was high in her mind.

And this little detail would cause great trouble for Great Lunar kingdom, but when it happened, Khaos and all the people had left the territory.

A few days later, they were at the port, where Khaos’s five other ships had anchored.

"Traitor," Caiden hissed when he saw Shadow nuzzled against Zuri’s hand and licked her face. "You are a wolf not a dog, so act like one. That’s so embarrassing."

Caiden had been sulking because Shadow would always want with Zuri, even though it was Caiden, who had taken care of the wolf all this time and fed him until he was this big.

Childishly, Caiden nudged Shadow’s head when the wolf nuzzled his head against Zuri’s touch.

"Your hurt him," Zuri complained, she swatted his hand away.

"Oh, please. He has a lot of meat that even if he fell from high place, the meat on his body will make him bounced."

Zuri couldn’t help, but laughed at that image. She felt so light and happy recently, her step was not heavy and the hatred in her heart ceased down significantly.

"You are so dramatic."

They watched as Khaos’s warriors put all the food supplies on the carriage. From what they heard the people in the River Creek pack were not in good state. They had been running out of food supply for days and needed it more than ever, but if they had to wait for the delivery from the other continent, it would take another week for the ships to reach their port.

Therefore, when Khaos and Rhett walked through the gates, their eyes lit up and the word spread around very fast. They started to contradict the rumor they had created about Rhett and Zuri were the traitor and how Khaos had abandoned the people.

Rose glared at Zuri when people greeted her with delight, but the luna approached the princess and offered her a pack of meat.

"Here, take it. Don’t be shy, you have worked so hard to entertain the people when I was not here."