A Mate For The Last Lycan-Chapter 183: THE WINTER IS OVER

The way Zuri was speaking to her made her blood boiled. Rose could sense it. The luna was mocking her openly. She didn’t even try to be subtle about it.

But, Rose wouldn’t take the bait so easily. She had gone through worse than this. A little luna like Zuri meant nothing to her.

"Thank you so much, luna Zuri." Rose took the pack of meat and gave Zuri a warm smile. "I know that you will be back, but I hope next time you disappeared, you will inform your people about your whereabouts, so there would be no false assumption."

"If their loyalty is so easily swayed just because they heard a few bad rumors about me and because I didn’t explain my action in detail, then I don’t want them. Trust is mutual."

"In my opinion, you should have explained... they will not understand, if you didn’t say anything."

"They are the subject of the alpha, but if the pack member couldn’t even respect their alpha, what else you could expect from them? There are a lot of things that couldn’t be discussed in public, you know that. There is what you called as a secret plan, something that you shouldn’t share in public. If we told them about where we were going, do you think we can manage to get this food supply?"

Zuri made them assumed that her disappearance was part of the secret plan to get the food supply, though the reality was not like that.

"I can understand..."

"Thank you for your understanding," Zuri cut her off. "I am glad, I don’t need to educate you more than this. Thank you for entertaining my people here while I was away to get the food supply and now I am so exhausted, I will take my leave first. I hope you continue to take care of them." Zuri grinned at Rose and patted her shoulder when she was about to talk again.

Zuri was already walking away when Rose wanted to keep this conversation going on.

The luna’s word was powerful enough that made all the people around them fell silent, they were embarrassed for the way they talked about Zuri in the past few weeks when she disappeared. They lowered their heads and acted very polite to Zuri after that.

And with the supply was already here, they were going to be able to pass the winter smoothly...

***

"I want to see the king! Open the door! Open the door!" Nycta banged her fists against the wooden door, she had been locked up inside her bedroom for a week ever since Dacre returned. She didn’t know what was going on out there, but she knew Dacre was already here.

At first, she thought, he was going to see her, he was going to ask her, interrogating her about why she did what she had done with Killian. She was ready to answer all the question.

However, to her surprised, Dacre didn’t come. He didn’t come to visit her at all. If there was no visit, there was no question, which meant, Nycta couldn’t tell Dacre her reason and this ate her alive. She needed him to hear her explanation.

"I want the king! Open this damn door!" Nycta was so angry she was crying. She had refused to eat since yesterday and it could a danger for her and the baby. Dacre should be here by now.

But, little did she know, her scandal with Killian had spread wide and nasty. People talked, and once people talked, you knew there was no stopping it.

The elders demanded the king’s explanation.

"The queen is pregnant with Killian’s baby, her own personal warrior."

"No, I heard Killian is the king’s lover. That’s why the king has never been with any woman... you know, he..."

"No way. That’s blasphemy. The king is not like that, right?"

"But, the royal warrior saw Killian and the queen... doing something dirty."

"No, I think Killian had forced himself to the queen."

"Really? Poor queen Nycta."

People talked and talked and the demand came pouring down against the king. On top of this matter, Khaos sent him a letter, asking him to pay for the food supplies that he managed to provide. The number made Dacre hurled a glass across the room.

"He is crazy! There is no way I am going to pay that much for food supplies! The winter is over!"

Leonard immediately came to Dacre’s side and saw the letter. "You need to pay this, my king. Knowing alpha Khaos, he will only cause more trouble if you didn’t." They had a lot now with the court, they didn’t need the public to see the king in bad light.

Dacre growled, but he knew Khaos better and Leonard was right. He was going to do something about it. It was like a trap and he walked straight into it.

"Any suggestion?"

Leonard sighed. "The option is obvious, Dacre. You either let go of Killian or you kill the queen and risk being at odd with Wolfdale Kingdom." He added. "The first option is the best."

"Call Rose back."

"You are relying on her so much," Leonard pointed it out.

"Call her back."

The royal beta had no other choice, but before he left, he informed Dacre about the crucial thing. "Queen Nycta has starved herself for almost two days now. She is going to risk herself and the baby."

And after saying that, Leonard left the room.

***

"The winter is over..." Zuri stared at the window and saw the first leaf on a branch of a tree, while sprawling on top of Khaos’s chest. The alpha caressed her back lightly.

"Hm." He traced finger up to the mark on her neck. The swollen had ceased and it took so long for it to completely heal.

Khaos believed, Zuri lost her healing ability, even a bruise on her knee took a week for it to heal.

"I like winter," Zuri stated.