184: ARIA (3)

ARIA (3)

Redmond intentionally blended with the other warriors to scour the whole mountain in order to find Iris and the lycan. He avoided Jace and Ethan, because he didn't want to have 'the talk' with them after what he had witnessed last night. His mind was a mess and he would have an outburst if they started to talk now.

It was a lycan! Cane shifted into a lycan! He didn't see it wrongly.

When that happened, he stood right at the side and was too stunned to speak, or give any reaction. He remembered the last report from his subordinate who said a lycan killed a thousand of his warriors that night.

He didn't believe him then. He thought it was an error and the messenger had written nonsense out of his wits.

But now, he knew it was not a wrong message. It was true and it was Cane who had killed them all.

"Are you okay?" Lyle approached Redmond. He was a warrior of the Blue Moon pack and Redmond's second in command.

"Yeah," Redmond replied curtly and from the corner of his eyes, he could see Ethan watching him. He ignored that gaze. "Did you find something?"

"No," Lyle growled. "This mountain is so big, there are so many monsters here. If they really entered the mountain range, don't you think that they would have died by now?" Since they started climbing up this mountain, they had lost three men and all of this was because Jace let their people take the brunt when the monsters attacked them.

The grudge between the two packs would never die down, and now that the Howling Wolf pack rose to its glory once again, the warriors from the Blue Moon pack had to suffer.

"Don't you think this is an opportunity for us to plan a coup?" Lyle lowered his voice, until it was only Redmond that could hear him. "We can…"

Yet, before Lyle could continue with his conspiracy plans, Redmond shot him down.

"We are not talking about that. Our Luna is out there, in danger and it is our responsibility to find her," Redmond said sternly, as he moved away from him and shifted into his beast form.

Lyle pressed his lips into a thin line. He didn't like their arrangement now and thought Iris didn't fit the role at all. She was a Luna for Redmond, but not him. It was Redmond who had pledged to her.

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Aria woke up with a start, she opened her eyes and abruptly sat up, but she immediately grimaced because she felt so sore down there. Her head was aching so badly and she felt like the entire room was spinning around.

"You finally woke up, here, drink this."

Aria whipped her head around when she heard a familiar voice and the moment she saw the sorcerer's warm smile, she remembered what had transpired between them. The memories rushed back to her in detail.

She blanched at the realization of what she had done with him. Not only did she put Cane's life in danger, but she actually betrayed him by sleeping with the person that harmed him.

"What have you done to me!?" Aria was angry, she swatted the glass that the sorcerer brought to her. The glass hit the wall and shattered into pieces.

The sorcerer frowned when he saw that, but he still sat down on the edge of the bed, which made Aria move away from him. "You shouldn't have thrown it away, that's a nutritious drink, it took two hours for me to make it."

"Cut the crap!" Aria roared angrily at him. "What have you done to me?!"

"Miss Aria, you are making a false allegation, as if I forced myself on you. We did it because you wanted it too," the sorcerer said. "If you didn't want to do it, you had plenty of opportunities to shove me away, but you didn't."

Aria's face turned red when she heard that. She couldn't deny it, but then she remembered the incense stick and the smell of lavender.

"You mean that incense stick?" The sorcerer pointed at the burning incense stick on the table and smiled softly at her. "Do you feel like doing it again now? If not, then your claim is baseless."

Aria thought the reason she felt so aroused earlier was because the incense contained the same essence as floence powder, but just like what the sorcerer said, she was not aroused now.

"Don't think too much about it, the deed had been done, we couldn't undo it, right?" The sorcerer looked very relaxed, which made Aria feel unwell.

"How long have I been out for?" Aria gritted her teeth when she saw the dark sky.

"Around ten hours."

"Cane!" Aria blurted out, she needed to focus on the reason why she was here, she would deal with what happened later. She had wasted so much time. "Break the curse! I am going to kill you if something happens to him!"

"Miss Aria, that's a strong curse, I had warned you so when you agreed, I can't lift it, unless…"

"Unless what?!" Aria didn't have time for riddles.0

"Unless I go personally to the Howling Wolf pack and retrieve the shard of magic stone that you have put inside of him, but if I do that, they will know what you have done, right?"

"You said no one will die!"

"People sometimes make mistakes." The sorcerer didn't even feel embarrassed when he admitted his error.

Hearing that, Aria was trembling, she knew that she was doomed. No one could know what she had done. Fear gripped her heart. She shouldn't have done this in the first place.

"Why don't you stay here? No one will know that you are here." The sorcerer took Aria's hand and caressed her knee, but this time, Aria raised her other hand and slapped him so hard before she got off the bed and found she was naked.

Yet, she didn't flinch when she dressed up under the sight of the sorcerer, she used to be naked under many eyes before.

"I am going to kill you if Cane dies!"

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