<h4>Chapter 718 - CHALLENGE FOR THE ALPHA</h4>


    "Tordoff?" Lc called his name when his figure appeared in the hallway. "You are back."


    Tordoff grinned at her. He missed that expression and how she smelled. "I am." He nced at Warlock. "What are you doing here?"


    "I asked the same question too." Lc crossed her arms in front of her chest.


    "Shouldn''t you go back to your room, Tordoff?" Warlock squinted his eyes at Tordoff, he didn''t like when he was being cornered by the guardian angel and his fellow general. "This is your queen''s quarter, it will not look good if there is male lycan roams around in this cete at night."


    "You shouldn''t be here as well," Tordoff responded.


    "King''s order." Warlock shrugged his shoulder. "I will walk away if you say you are here because you will rece me." He locked his eyes on Tordoff. "But, if not, then please leave."


    "What the King wants by having you guarding the guardian angel''s door?" Tordoff was not satisfied with Warlock''s answer.


    "Apparently, she is not only a guardian angel, she is also our king''s destined mate." Warlock gave Lc a look. He was still in denial that their king finally had his mate. All of the people thought the curse was eternal. "Probably, you have not yet heard about this because you were gone when Lyrus started to inform us."


    "No. I already knew," Tordoff said coldly. His eyes were on Lc.


    Tordoff remembered the day when Lyrus told him about Lc''s true identity was the same day when he had to follow Sebastian and Kyle to look for Maximus.


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    "It meant; I am no longer need your drink," Jedrek then added when he watched Maximus was about to talk, "or your service."


    Maximus narrowed his eyes. Somehow, he knew what Jedrek already learnt about his true intention. Little did he know, Jedrek had known it for a long time. The King was just very good at pretending and hid his feeling.


    "You must be in pain now. When you know Serefina wille with your brothers. I will make the drink to ease your pain.


    "You don''t need to do that kind of thing anymore." Jedrek walked slowly toward Maximus. "It has been a really long time since Ist drank your potion."


    Maximus raised his eyebrows when he heard that. "You have been pretending," he stated and then chuckled. "Very well."


    The night was so cold and the cricket was so loud, yet at this moment no one paid attention to that small detail, especially when one secret had been revealed unexpectedly.


    "So, you know that I am not loyal to you?" Since Jedrek had known about it, there was no way for him to avoid this topic. Since they had dropped their fa?ade, in spite of the fact that both of them had not yet talked much, but by looking into each other''s eyes, the two of them knew how much information the other had.


    "You were not even loyal to me when you were still my Beta." Jedrek said in matter of fact tone.


    "I was loyal to you until you killed all of my family," Maximus said in very calm tone, as if he was talking about the beautiful moon. "You pardoned the dragon shifter and let them alive when they hadmitted the same mistake that my family had done."


    "Your family was under the lycanthropesw, where death is a punishment for traitors." Jedrek didn''t need to remind Maximus about this, he should have known it.


    This punishment had been imposed for as long as the Donovan royal family had existed and ruled this realm.


    Therefore, such crime couldn''t be pardoned. However, the dragon shifter were different, they were from different realm and were not bound by the same rules. Jedrek could pardon them as long as he saw an advantage in it.


    "Traitors?" Maximus scoffed. "So, do you think I am a traitor now?"


    Maximus still remembered how his father told him to hand their family over when the war was about to be won by the lycanthropes. At least, there was one of their family lineage that survive, so he could carry their family blood along with the vengeance.


    "You have always been a traitor," Jedrek spoke impassively.


    "Don''t forget that if something happened to me, you will face the wrath from the eastern region," Maximus jeered.


    "Don''t worry about that, I have worked on it," Jedrek replied casually.


    Maximus smirked. Looks like things were not going ording to what he had nned. He couldn''t give Jedrek the same death he did to his family. This was pitiful. If only he had a little time, everything would be perfect.


    However, Maximus could do onest thing.


    "I challenge you for Alpha position," he said before he leapt forward and shifted into his beast mid- air.


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    Lc watched the two generals talked at each other in very respectful manner, it seemed like they would have wed each other''s face if it was not because of Lc still standing there.


    But, one thing that Lc realized just now.


    "Tordoff," she called his name and this automatically stopped the conversation between Warlock and him. "Did youe back because you found out where Maximus is?"


    Tordoff nodded. "Yes."


    "You managed to bring him back?" Lc''s suspicion grew stronger. "Where is he now?"


    "He is with the king." Tordoff answered truthfully, but he didn''t understand why Lc looked surprised. "They are having an important conversation now." He assumed the conversation must be really urgent for Jedrek to summon Maximus right away after their arrival.


    However, Lc knew better than that.


    Jedrek was going to kill Maximus! He said it before. Because their mating ceremony would be held right after he dealt with him.


    That was why, Jedrek put Warlock in front of her door to prevent her from roaming around the castle at this time and watched something that she shouldn''t.


    This wasn''t because Lc wanted to stop Jedrek from killing him, but ...