Chapter 214
J urgently dodged to the right and narrowly escaped the de by one inch.
The killer’s move was swifter than she thought.
He swung his arm and threw a punch at J’s shoulder.
J was a trained soldier.
She was confident that she could stop that punch.
So she raised an arm and tried to seize his arm
BANG!
She was sent flying backward and knocked into the closet. The loud, shattering noise
echoed in the room.
Fuck!
She forgot that she was dealing with a Lycan!
J felt as though her organs were turned upside down by that punch.
Her body was in a huge pain. Her head was spinning.
“JANET! WATCH OUT!!!” Belle let out an earsplitting scream.
J urgently dodged to the right and narrowly escaped the de by one inch.
The killer’s move was swifter than she thought.
He swung his arm and threw a punch at J’s shoulder.
J was a trained soldier.
She was confident that she could stop that punch.
So she raised an arm and tried to seize his arm-
BANG!
She was sent flying backward and knocked into the closet. The loud, shattering noise
echoed in the room.
Fuck!
She forgot that she was dealing with a Lycan!
J felt as though her organs were turned upside down by that punch.
Her body was in a huge pain. Her head was spinning.
There was a bloody taste in her mouth.
The killer leapt forward raising the de up high in the air and stabbed at her heart! There was no
way that she could dodge this.
She sat there, her heart racing wildly, with her entire life shing through her eyes-
Just then, a loud roar exploded in the room!
Wells rushed at the killer and tackled him to the ground.
The killer rolled over on the floor, raising his de up.
“JANET! WATCH OUT!!!” Belle let out an earsplitting scream.
J urgently dodged to the right and narrowly escaped the de by one inch.
The killer’s move was swifter than she thought.
He swung his arm and threw a punch at J’s shoulder.
J was a trained soldier.
She was confident that she could stop that punch.
So she raised an arm and tried to seize his arm
BANG!
She was sent flying backward and knocked into the closet. The loud, shattering noise. echoed in the
room.
Fuck!
She forgot that she was dealing with a Lycan!
J felt as though her organs were turned upside down by that punch.
Her body was in a huge pain. Her head was spinning.
There was a bloody taste in her mouth.
The killer leapt forward raising the de up high in the air and stabbed at her heart!
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There was no way that she could dodge this.
She sat there, her heart racing wildly, with her entire life shing through her eyes-
Just then, a loud roar exploded in the room!
Wells rushed at the killer and tackled him to the ground.
The killer rolled over on the floor, raising his de up.
Yet Wells shifted before he made an attack again.
Within the blink of an eye, the handsome young man had transformed into a Lycan with silver fur
and sharp fangs.
His wolf was much simr to Westin’s, only smaller in size.
The Lycan guarded in front of J and let out a deafening howl at the killer.
The killer knelt on the floor and hesitated.
His gaze flickered to J.
J finally saw that he was wearing a mask that covered most part of his face, with
only a pair of eyes exposed.
A pair of cold, smokey grey eyes.
“Who the fuck are you” Wells roared.
The Lycan flung his paw and went at the killer.
The killer jumped up from the floor urgently, dashed across the room, and jumped out of the
window.
“STOP!!!”
Wells went after him at once.
Belle rushed to J’s side. She knelt down, cupping her face with both hands and sobbed in a
horrified voice:
“…JJ, are you alright? Please…Please don’t die….”
J breathed heavily, fighting with the pain.
She wanted to tell Belle not to worry.
Yet before she could say anything, darkness kicked in.
She passed out in Belle’s arms.
Hours or probably even dayster, J opened her eyes again.
She was lying on her bed.
Bright sunlight flooded into the room through the curtains.
It was already the morning.
“JANET!” two voices gasped in unison.
Two faces appeared in her sight–simr golden hair, identical blue eyes…
It was Wells and Belle.
J held her shoulder and struggled to sit up straight, “…How long did I-
“A whole night.” Belle answered with tears circling in her eyes, “I was so worried, J…are you
going to be alright?”
J rubbed her curly hair, “I am feeling better already. You didn’t tell anyone about this, did you?”
Wells shook his head with a tight frown, “Belle wanted to call the doctor, but I don’t think it is a good
idea to let people know about this before we identify the killer.” J gave him a faint smile, “You
did the right thing.”
She trusted no one in this castle, not even the doctors.
“And thank you, Wells. You saved my lifest night.”
Wells scratched his head, a youthful and sheepish grin on his face.
Belle held J’s hand and asked, “But at least you should let Westin know about this! Ask him to
find the killer and execute him!”
“Belle is right. We will hunt that bastard down!” Wells snapped. “I want to see who dares to assassin
you under the Lycan King’s watch!”
J’s eyes became cold.
She had made a lot of enemies since she arrived at the Lycan’snd.
She wondered which one of her enemies did this as well.
“Did you catch up with himst night?” she asked Wells.
There was a frustrated look on Wells’s face, “No. That bastard was incredibly fast. And he seemed
to know the way around the castle.
So, an in–house rat.
“But he left this.”
Westin ced a piece of grey cloth on the bed.
“I tore it off from his clothes at night,” he said
J picked up the cloth and studied it closely.
She saw people dressed in cloaks made of simr cloth
The House of Shadows.
Which happened to be Elder Lamonte and Agnes’s house.
J clenched the cloth with fury burning in her chest.
She knew that these two people wanted her gone.
But she didn’t know that they were willing to make the killing move.
She underestimated her enemies.
A horrible mistake.
“Where is the Elder’s Council?” she asked abruptly.
The twins exchanged a look of astonishment. Then Wells asked, “What are you doing? Shouldn’t
you alert Westin first?”
“No. I need to confront someone first.”
If the House of Shadow was behind this, even Westin’s hands were tied.
J didn’t think he would offend the elders for her.
So she was in this fight alone.
“If you want to go to the Elder Council, I can show you the way,” Belle said. “But your injury…”
“I am fine,” said J getting off the bed.
The Elder Council sat on an isted peak, overlooking the entire castle.
The architecture rose like a mountain of intricately carved ivory stone, reaching towards the
heavens.
Pirs, hewn from the mighty trees that once guarded the mist forest, soared to dizzying heights,
their branches intertwined overhead.
Lycan soldiers stood outside of the iron gate.
When they saw Wells and Belle approach, they immediately stepped aside and let them through.
The twins followed J up through the marble staircase till they reached the enormous, ornate
doors that guarded the hall.
“Do you want us toe in with you? To keep you safe?” Wells asked in worry. J smiled, “No
that is fine. I can go in by myself.”
She pushed the enormous doors open and stepped into the hall alone.
It was a spacious, circr space.
Sunlight filtered through the stained–ss windows that adorned the walls, creating an ethereal
ambiance.
A chandelier suspended from the apex, its gems glittering like descended stars in the
daylight.
Threerge round tables took up most of the space. A golden throne was ced on at raised
tform facing the tables and the doors.
A group of people were gathered underneath the tform when J walked in. “…We had made
several attempted assassinations targeted at the Werewolf King, but each attempt has failed. And
the werewolf soldiers are closing in. We have a reason to suspect that they have found out about
our location…”
The elders stopped abruptly when they heard the sound of the door opening up. He jerked around
with the others, a shocking expression on his face.
“Who allowed you in? This is the Elder Council!” he snarled.
J ignored him and made her way down the aisle, toward the throne.
Westin stood up from the throne with a frown, “J, what are you doing-
“You assassinated Daran?” she snapped, clenching her fists.
Westin narrowed his eyes.
“Yes,” he answered in an indifferent voice.
“How dare you-”
“Forgive me, Lady J,” said a ck–cloaked elder. “But the werewolf troops are heading directly
to ournd. If they invade us and start a war, they be our enemy.”
J gritted her teeth.
Daran didn’t want to start a goddamn war.
He wasing because Westin abducted her!
“The werewolves are my people!” she growled, “Do not touch them!”
Elder Pierre from the House of Light cleared his throat, “I can promise you that the Lycans won’t be
the first ones to fire the gun. You are our future Queen, Lady J. We have much respect for you,
and to your people as well.”
“Is that so?”
J let out a coldugh, “Then howe your future Queen almost got killed in her own roomst
night?”
The Elders gasped in unison.
Westin widened his eyes abruptly, “…WHAT?”
J reached into her pocket and took out the grey cloth.
“This piece of cloth was torn off from the killer’s shirt,” she said icily. “Now. Does anyone of you
want toe forward and im it?”
There was an outbreak of muttering at this.
J’s gaze traveled through the crowd and fixed on Elder Lamonte’s face.