"You had an affair with your own protector and became pregnant. Do you think you are better than me?"
That timid little girl, who was trying to please everyone, now turned very cold and nonchalant.
"Maybe it runs in my blood to screw my protector."
In the past, Abby wouldn’t have even dared to imagine she said something like this, but right now, instead of being scared, she felt this emptiness, even her fear couldn’t reach her. She was shut off from the reality.
Her mind still wondered where Liam was, but she didn’t know who she should ask. She didn’t have anyone in the Holy Kingdom, a sad fact that she just realized it now. It was very late for her to notice it. All this time, it would be Liam and Cedric, who stayed by her side.
"Abby!" Elder Rose looked livid and shock, but aside from that, she was awfully humiliated from being called out. "How dare you saying such thing!"
Elder Rose raised her hand and was about to slap Abby, but she was not that fast. She had aged and became slow, thus Abby could see it coming. She swatted her hand easily.
"Am I wrong?" Abby didn’t change her expression. "Did I say something wrong? You don’t like Rei because he never returned the baby that you conceived out of love with the man that you truly loved. I bet you never knew the baby’s whereabouts until now."
It was very liberating to be able to speak up what was in your mind, being freed from fear and the consequences of your action. It felt good when you were be able to stand up for yourself and point out how shitty the person, who had been talking down on you.
They acted holy, but there was nothing holy about them. The more you knew about them, the more you would be able to smell their shit.
"All of those years you taught me how to be a proper Serafim, only now I learned a valuable lesson." Abby looked at Elder Rose in her eyes, she didn’t falter, neither she stuttered when she spoke. "You show me what kind of mother I don’t want to be."
After saying that, Abby walked out of her bedroom, leaving Elder Rose, who looked like someone just smacked her face. Her eyes turned red, but she gritted her teeth and composed herself, and when she walked out, Abby had gone. She didn’t know where she was going to.
Meanwhile, Abby hastened her step to go to the shifters’ quarter. The closer she was, the more she met with warriors and all of them looked at her openly with a furrow between their brows, as if questioning why she was around.
And with her numb feeling, Abby kept walking.
However, when she reached the alpha and the luna’s bedroom, two warriors stopped her and asked what she was doing there.
"The alpha and the luna are not here. You can leave. We will tell the luna that you come by."
See? The way they treated her had drastically changed, even before she let go of her title officially. They had been there and witnessed everything how their luna outpowered her and now they didn’t give her an ounce of respect.
"I will wait for her." Abby was picking up her fingers again.
On the other hand, Iris was looking for Cane. The alpha was talking to Cezi and his beta, Arche. Both of them nodded their head politely at Iris when she approached them, while Cane stretched out his hand to pull her closer to him.
"What bring you here?" Cane kissed her cheek.
"I have something to discuss with you," Iris said, but then she glanced at Cezi and Arche. "I will wait for you after you finished."
"There is no need for that luna, we are done. We are about to leave," Cezi immediately said. He and his beta then resigned themselves, leaving the two of them.
"Did I intervene with your discussion?" Iris asked, while walking side by side with Cane. This place was rather chaotic because there were so many people here, thus the alpha took his mate to a quieter place.
"No. We had discussed the important detail when you came." Cane took her to a tavern and let her sit down. It was a very hot day and Iris was sweating. He ordered two cold drinks for the two of them.
"What did you discuss?" Iris was being curious and the alpha actually entertained her curiosity by explaining his discussion with Cezi.
It was about how to accommodate those merchants, who was going to stay and fight against the royal. They were not really good at fighting, but they could provide supplies and weapons for the knights, some of them sent their men to the Goffa mountain in order to mine the magic stone, since warrior from the Blue Moon pack joined their course, they lacked of people to do so.
The magic stone of course to provide the magic user in battle.
Cane explained all of that patiently and when the drinks came, he tasted her drink first and waited for a while, only when he thought it was safe, he gave it to her.
Iris was grateful by how thoughtful he was.
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