413: FAIRYTALE

FAIRYTALE

"You said it before," Serefina cut her statement icily and this made the girl look at her with a frown, yet she didn't say anything.  2

"Continue." Kace sighed tiredly. Serefina's temper was one thing, but if the girl had the same personality as the witch, he was worried how his mate would grow up under their care. 

Withdrawing her scowl at Serefina, Lana continued her story, disregarding the witch entirely. "My pack was attacked by vampires one day. My father was the Gamma of the pack and told my mother, my brother and me to leave the house."

Lana's voice trailed off. She stared out of the window as her next words turned into a murmuring sound. 

"My brother was a warrior of the pack, thus when he realized that the situation was getting out of hand, he ran into the battle and got killed." Her voice turned gloomier as the story unfolded. "My mother hid me inside a wine barrel, so those vampires wouldn't be able to smell my scent."

Silence fell hard inside the car, even Serefina kept her focus on the road and didn't bother to give her thoughts upon this story, which was a good sign rather than to have her run her mouth. 

"I don't know how long I was there, but when I could no longer hear anything, I mustered up some courage and tried to get out of the barrel."

Lana stopped again as Serefina chose a more narrow road before exiting from the highway.

"All I could see was blood and dead bodies. It was a carnage." Lana's voice sounded steady, but there was a ripple of anger that she tried to suppress. 

"I couldn't venture to look for my mother and my father, because some of the vampires were still lingering around the pack, therefore I ran away."

Lana licked her dry lips as her fingers clasped together. She was too young to experience those gruesome incidents, but that was how life worked. It would take everything dear to you to mold you into something new, regardless you crumbled completely or became stronger. 

Thankfully, Lana ended up being the second type. 

"How long have you been running for?" Kace leaned over and nudged her with a bottle of water.

Lana lowered her eyes and didn't say thank you, but the way she gulped down half of the bottled water, showed how much she needed it.

"The attack happened three weeks ago." Lana answered Kace after she took a deep breath and felt refreshed. "Since then, I had run into several wicked creatures. Fortunately, I managed to escape from them."

"Lock heart pack," Serefina said with her eyes still locked on to the road. "Your pack before was Lock heart pack."

A soft gasp escaped Lana's lips. "How do you know that?"

"I heard there was a pack that was demolished from vampire attack." Serefina then glanced at Kace through the rear- view mirror. "Your brother is very livid because of this."

The small frown between Lana's eyebrows morphed into an understanding look as she covered her mouth in surprise and turned around to look at Kace behind her seat. 

"Girl! Sit down properly!" Serefina grunted upon the sudden movement. 

However, Lana disregarded her completely as she made a quick observation on Kace and asked. "You are one of the Donovan brothers!?" She squeaked and covered her mouth. 

"What a dramatic reaction…" Serefina scoffed and rolled her eyes exasperatedly, and Kace didn't find it comfortable to be addressed that way either. 

"Oh! Right!" Lana's cold and stern expression from before was long gone. "I saw your white beast!"

"You can stop talking too loud, if the baby is woken up I will throw you out of the car." Kace threatened her, starting to regret his decision to bring her along with them. 

From the rear view mirror, Serefina shot him a look that said; I told you she will be a nuisance.

"But you are the legend that my parents would often tell us about before we go to sleep." No matter how hard her demeanor before had been, Lana was still a little girl, who had not yet lost her childish and innocent side entirely. Her reaction now proved it.

"Wow! A legend…" Serefina almost laughed out loud at that. "May I know what kind of story of the Donovan brothers you heard before?" Her voice was thick with sarcasm.

"You don't know?" Lana turned her head, confused. "Nobody knows?" 

"Girl, I don't need a fairytale about them to help me to sleep." Serefina rolled her eyes again.

"Yeah, but you sleep with one of them." Kace remarked as he raised his eyebrows defiantly, challenging the witch to retort his words.

Instead of that, Serefina stepped on the accelerator harder, as rumbling growls raged behind her throat.

Lana would have been knocked on to the dashboard if it wasn't for her seatbelt that saved her. She shot an angry look at Serefina and the witch ignored her as usual.

However, her eyes shone when she talked about the story that her mother would tell her before she fell asleep. 

It was about the great war. How they have brought their people out of the battle victorious. The battle between the Lycanthropes and the devils.

The way Lana recounted it for them, made the Donovans sound so majestic as if the result of the war left nothing but joy and pride.

Though the truth wasn't anything near to that… 

Kace experienced all of that first hand and he knew how the feeling of despair filled the air after the war had ended.

It sounded nice only because the story was meant to tell as a fairytale. 

"I bet no one from your brothers know about this sweet story of them." Serefina commented. 

"I think they will not care about it much." Kace replied as he crossed his thick arms in front of his chest and glanced at the sky that had turned into golden color. "Why didn't you go to other packs?" He asked Lana again to change the subject.

Lana gritted her teeth. "They attacked the neighbouring packs too."

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