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Tryfon's eye blazed as he looked at us with all the hate he could muster, making me add more sweetness to my smile.
"You speak a lot," Tryfon complemented Lua, "I hope you are also capable of doing the work,"
"You'd be more than surprised with all the things I could do," Lua shot back beamingly, making Tryfon press his lips in a thin line. "And if we stop talking and get down to work then you'd be able to see what I'm talking about," She added.
Tryfon's eyes burned into us for a couple more moments before he declared, "His Majesty would be here soon for that,"
"What do you mean?"
"Are you having trouble with basic comprehension?"
"I'm having trouble comprehending what he has to do with this," I told him.
"Why? He'd be going with us," Tryfon spoke, making me frown. I wasn't expecting this and I just couldn't start to wonder why he was coming to this trip. He wasn't needed in it in any way and besides, Tryfon was already sexist and chauvinist enough. I don't think we would be able to handle the King of sexism and chauvinism on this trip. It was going to be a very challenging trip and I didn't feel like carrying an extra headache with me.
"But why?" I pressed, narrowing my eyes at him.
"Why not?" He shot back at me.
"Because he's not needed there," Lua answered, "We are more than prepared,"
"He doesn't care. He's coming. He'll be leading our men," Tryfon spoke with determination. If looks could kill, Lua and I would have been dead soon after breaking our first word in front of him.
"Then what are you here for?" Lua asked and I heard someone choke behind us. But before he could say anything, we heard a very loud neigh of the horse, marking Ezekile's arrival. I felt his presence the first thing followed by his eyes. All the emotions instantly drained out of my face, leaving my face void before I turned to look at him.
My eyes instantly met with his dark ones which were blazing even stronger than the sun. It made my wolf pace inside me but I remained unfazed on the surface. I didn't miss how his eyes scanned me from head to toe, undressing me with his eyes and fvcking my soul.
That lycan bastard!
With his eyes still locked with mine, he got off the horse and stalked towards me. I was practically digging my heels into the ground as the tension crackled in the air. I wouldn't lie, the mate bond was having an effect on me but I'd learned to deal with it in all these years.
"Who's that?" He asked glancing at Lua. A very judgmental look instantly climbed on his face as soon as his eyes fell on her.
"My second in command for this trip," I answered grimly, holding his burning gaze. He cocked an eyebrow at my response before asking, "Another woman?"
"Any problem with that?" I asked, drilling my eyes into him. Any normal wolf would have flinched at this but he was the Lycan King. He stared me down with even more fire in his eyes and determination on his face.
"Of course not," He answered, lying smoothly but there was no way I was going to buy that from him.
"Then let's get going. We have already wasted a lot of time," I said. His eyes burned into me for a couple of more moments before we finally moved to their military camp to brief them about our plans. Not all of it, of course, because Ezekile was a scheming bastard, and this was a game of cards. I kept the best cards reserved for the end.
As I had expected, he did propose, scratch that, demanded to make some changes in the plan so that I could get my wolves closer to the border from where he could send them into enemy territory but I was now too cleaver to see through all of this. I didn't let him change a single thing about my plans and neither was I going to. It took him some time to understand this otherwise we would have saved a lot of time on it.
It was around dusk when we were finally done with all the discussions. We were going to start for the eastern end of Thastonia the first thing in the morning tomorrow.
Even though Ezekiel had a whole military camp set up there equipped with all of the things one would need in the middle of nowhere, I still insisted on building a separate camp for us wolves because again, Ezekiel was a scheming bastard and I knew that he was going to do something. He definitely had planned something because all of this seemed just too easy, which it shouldn't have been.
Ezekiel seemed slightly agreeable with my terms on the Coronation day and even while we were discussing our plans this evening. It was wrong. It was illegal for Ezekiel and agreeable to exist in the same sentence. I knew he had his own plans. He wasn't the one to sit back and watch. As far as I knew him, he was always the aggressor in a fight or a war but currently, he was acting very different, making me wonder if he had changed some of his tactics.
Whatever it was, I remained alert.
It didn't take long for my wolves to set up a camp for us just nearby. It was smaller than the lycan's camp but it was enough to stay for a night. My tent was set up at the very end of the whole camp. I did this deliberately so there Ezekiel couldn't get to me very easily but still, he was a scheming bastard and I knew that he would still find a way to me.
I wasn't wrong.
After everyone had had dinner, we retired to bed early because we needed to wake up early tomorrow and start our journey to the frozen valleys. After biding Lua good night, I went into my tent. Lua's tent was just next to mine. I double-checked everything and laid down in my tent and closed my eyes and... waited.
But for what, you must wonder. For the morning? No. I waited for that scheming son of a bitch to show up. He didn't keep me waiting for long.
He was as quiet as a breeze as he moved through our camp but I was able to feel his presence when he was just right outside my tent. My tent was zipped from inside and there was no possible way for him to come inside other than tearing the whole thing apart but oh, here was where I underestimated him. I watched as the zip of my tent traveled down very quietly.
In the next moment, he stepped inside my tent as if he owned it. His eyes instantly locked with mine and the temperature in the tent skyrocketed.
"Go back," He gritted at me very lowly, his eyes were throwing daggers at me.
"I should be the one saying that to you," I told him very dryly, keeping a very straight and grim face. My words acted as fuel to the fire burning in his eyes before he let out a very low, threatening growl.
"You'll not come to this trip!" He gritted at me, taking another step inside the tent. He was already very tall but inside this small tent, he appeared like a giant.
"Who're you to decide?" I shot back and his chest vibrated with another growl.
"I'm your mate,"
"I don't remember having one-" Before I could finish speaking, he was in front of my face. His eyes were now pitch black and there were dark veins surrounding his eyes. A very animalistic and feral look decorated his face as he looked down at me with a combination of anger and lust.
"Oh really?" He gritted in my face while his fingers wrapped around my neck. I remained stiff under him and didn't say anything. The waves of sparks that emanated from his touch did send some shivers down my spine but I maintained my calm. Meanwhile, my fingers curled around the dagger that I still had in my trousers. "You don't remember having a mate? Then let me remind you!"
With that, he dipped to kiss me but I turned my head away and took out the dagger before stabbing him right in the neck.
Instead of feeling the dagger traveling through his flesh, I heard a noise that could be best described as metal colliding against metal.
For a moment, it bewilderment me but I shouldn't have because again, he was a scheming son of a damned bitch. A look of satisfaction crossed his face and his eyes darkened even more. His hand grabbed mine before he tried to get the dagger from me but I wasn't ready to give up so soon.
"Either you leave or I call my whole army here," I threatened him. At this, he stopped for a moment and the fire in his eyes increased.
"How pathetic General you are. Can't even save yourself," He said and this made me snap. I'd been in a similar situation before and let him take advantage of it but I wouldn't let him get take advantage of him this and neither let him get away with this.
A growl was the only thing I gave him as a warning. In the next moment, he was kneeling where I'd been laying moments ago while I stood behind him with my sword against the back of his neck. I couldn't use my magic against him because of the mate bond but I could use some very basic magic to help me teleport from one place to another.
This seemed to have taken him by surprise because he froze in his place before commenting, "Of course you'd attack from the back. I didn't expect anything better from you," I ground my teeth at his comment. Both of us knew that that comment was the greatest insult a warrior could get but I chose not to react at that moment because I was sure that the trip would give me enough opportunities to take revenge on him.
For now, I just pressed my sword against the back of his neck even more and demanded, "Why the fvck are you here?" I realized how times had changed. There was a time when he had asked me the same question while pinning me against the wall.
"You know why I am here,"
No, I don't,"
"I don't want you to go there," He spoke properly this time. I thought I heard something very vulnerable in his voice but I didn't try to read too much into out because this fvcking lycan was a scheming motherfvcker and I had already let him play with me but I wasn't going to allow that to happen anymore.
"I have come so far. What makes you think that I'd go back?" I demanded.
"Celeste," he spoke. This time his voice was very grim but it was slightly different. It was softer, "I don't want you to go there. It's not safe,"
"I am a General. I signed up for doing mostly unsafe things," I reminded him but he shook his head and spoke again, "This is dangerous for you in a different way. You don't understand this, Celeste,"
"Then make me understand. What's it? I know it's going to be snowy and stormy there with all those snow demons and Drakonians hiding in that hell hole,"
"And if those Drakonians get their hands on you and find out that you're my mate, do you understand the things they'd do to you?" He gritted all of a sudden, taking me by surprise for a second. I was prepared for everything but not for this.
"I-I don't care," I uttered, making him growl.
"Of course, you don't. You have a habit of walking into trouble," He gritted.
"I'm going," I affirmed. In the next moment, the sword was being knocked off my hand and I found myself again laying under him while he had me pinned to the ground.
"You're not going to listen to me, are you?" He demanded.
"No," I growled with determination, making him growl back at me. A very tense moment passed between us before he spoke up, "If you get as little as a scratch, I'll be taking you out of there,"
"You don't have to care so much for me," I growled at him. I was mad at him all of a sudden because I heard genuine concern for me in his voice. I knew better than to believe that though because he was a great actor.
"I don't want to care for you either. I'm going on that trip for a vixen like you because I don't feel like leaving you alone anytime soon again," He growled before his lips crashed on mine and the tent exploded.
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