Nichs lowered his head dejectedly. "Where are you? I am so sorry that I forgot about you. I am sorry that I left you. I am sorry... I didn''t mean to do that. Please forgive me...."


    More tears fell from his eyes, and he gripped his left chest tightly. Nichs cursed himself for not remembering anything about his wife. He felt so guilty, he had hurt the woman.


    Tears continued to fall down the wooden floor below as Nichs continued to contemte what his wife must have felt after he left her alone in this forsaken ce.


    "Sorry," he whispered in a trembling voice. "Sorry… I didn''t mean to."


    He kept apologizing in between his tears, but after a few seconds, he was stunned when he just realized that he forgot to ask the vige head what his wife''s name was.


    He stood up and wiped the tears from his cheeks with his sleeves, and sped off at lightning speed towards the vige head''s house. He was impressed to know that even though he didn''t shift, his speed when running was much faster than human''s.


    This was a pleasant surprise. It seemed that he slowly had learned to tap into his potential. After the day he found out he could transform into a lycan, Nichs had been finding out new things about him that he thought were helpful or beneficial for him.


    It almost felt like... he didn''t hate his new situation.


    In the past, he was so brainwashed by his father and the people around them that saw lycans as monsters that he had hated himself so much and thought he was not good enough. However, on the way to Hauntingen, his mother''s words were yed over and over again in his mind.


    So, what? He was the king now. Who cared about what other people think?


    In the past, the queen was terrified that Nichs would be hunted and killed, because the king hated lycans.


    But now... who should he fear? No one. He was the king and his words werew.


    Maybe he needed to make an adjustment in rtion to the Royal Lycan Hunters. They were still needed and would be the kingdom''s best line of defense against lycans the enemy who were trying to topple their government. Nichs still needed to fight them, so Riga wouldn''t end up like Armeria.


    Now, he actually saw him being a lycan as an advantage. It''s like getting inside info about the enemy. Now he knew what they were like. He could find their weaknesses to beat them.


    He was not one of them even though he could transform into a lycan. He would never be them. He would always be their enemy and he would work hard to defeat them.


    ''Jokes on you, Alpha,'' Nichs scoffed. ''You bit me and turned me into a lycan to embarrass my family and prompt my father to kill me. However, you have unknowingly created a monster that would bring your whole tribe down.''


    ''I will make you pay dearly.''


    Yes. Nichs would use his newfound power to his advantage. And now, he would go to that vige head''s home to see him and find out more info about the woman he married. His wife.


    The vige head was right. It was easy to find his house after Nichs got into the town center. The first person he asked about the old man''s residence immediately pointed him in the right direction.


    Nichs arrived only minutes after the vige head reached his house and just put down his coat on the table. When the king got there, he knocked on the door impatiently.


    "Wait a moment." The vige head''s voice came from inside while Nichs waited anxiously.


    The door opened. The vige head was a little surprised when he saw Nichs, he had just arrived at his house after escorting the young man into the forest, but now the young man was in front of him.


    Did Nichs leave the hut as soon as he left? The vige head furrowed his brows in confusion. He thought Nichs was going to stay in the hut for a while because the man wanted to find a clue about his wife.


    "You? Ah,e on in."


    The vige head invited Nichs to enter his house, but Nichs refused.


    "No. Thank you. I just wanted to ask, what is my wife''s name? I forgot to ask you. That''s why I came here," Nichs exined.


    The vige head looked sad because Nichs really didn''t remember anything about his wife. The young man didn''t even remember the name of the woman he married. It was really unfortunate. He could only imagine the ident that Nichs went through.


    "Sophia Hansley," the vige head said after about five seconds of silence.


    Ba-dump.


    Nichs held his breath when he heard the name spoken by the vige head. Instantly the image of Sophia Romanov appeared in his mind then was reced with the image of a child who had the same hair as Sophia Romanov.


    Nichs''s heart beat faster, and his breathing became a bit heavy, followed by the pain that rose in his head. Sophia?


    Was there such a coincidence? Were they really the same person?


    "So... Sophia?" Nichs muttered in disbelief.


    "Yeah, that''s her name." The vige head nodded. "She is a very beautiful young woman. An orphan. I knew her parents and was very sad when they died. So, when I saw that she had found a good man to be her husband, I thought she could finally be happy."


    "Ah."


    Nichs staggered backward, and it worried the vige head to see him.


    "Are you okay?"


    "Y-yes. Thank you." Nichs forced a smile, then turned around. He walked slowly with his eyes staring nkly ahead as if his soul was somewhere else.


    After walking for a while, he stopped and stood there for a while. He was in the middle of an open square, right in the middle of the town.


    His once empty eyes now twinkled again. His brows knitted together as hepared Sophia Romanov''s face and the face of the little girl in his memory, who was probably Sophia Hansley.


    The two figures had a lot inmon, and that made him suspect that they were the same person. But if so, why didn''t Sophia greet him when they met at the pce party? Sophia must recognize Nichs, right? So, why didn''t she say anything?


    Nichs wondered about all these in his mind. However, the questions were immediately answered with memory when Sophia Romanov looked at him tearfully in the royal party, and then she suddenly fell unconscious.


    Nichs'' heart sank at the thought of Sophia''s pain that night. The woman must have been devastated to see that her husband was engaged to another woman.


    The searing pain was getting worse in Nichs'' head, but he didn''t want to stop thinking. He had a lot to remember right away.


    Suddenly the image of the two children who had entered with Sophia that night came to him. Nichs just realized that the two boys looked very simr to him. He wondered if the two children were his biological children?


    Of course, they were!


    Why had he been so blind to see it?


    Nichs''s breathing became heavier. His fingertips turned pale, and his entire body trembled. He leaned against a tree trunk so he wouldn''t fall because he was losing strength.


    The man struggled to catch his breath and tried to control his emotions. He needed to be calm. He didn''t want to turn into a lycan now, but the realization struck him hard.


    "Why did I let this happen?"


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    From Missrealitybites:


    YES! Nichs remembers! Now, he just needs to go and find them.