432: THAT'S THE PLAN

THAT'S THE PLAN

"What do you mean with that?" Haco got this feeling there was something more behind Lu's words. He hunched his back, waiting for his answer. "Lu, at least, have some decency to tell me what it is. You have been using me for five whole decades."

Lu stared at Haco. "You have at least a year more left."

"Why so? Are you being a clairvoyant now?"

"I was extracted from you. You can say I have been your life force for the past five decades, your life force attached to me." Lu crossed his arms in front of his chest, staring at Haco lazily, while the sorcerer tried to process the information about his life. 

"And why it's only my life force that's attached to you? Why it's not vice versa?" Haco was still hoping Lu said something nonsense, but then if there was something he really knew about this lycan was; he always be true to his words. 

"Because I am not even alive, old man." Haco massaged his temple when he got the answer. "Feeling better now you know about it?"

"No!" Haco snapped, but then he sighed deeply and his tone a little bit calmer when he talked again. "After you used me for five decades now you drop this information when I finally free from you."

Lu scoffed. "The day you were being kicked from the Holy Kingdom was the best day in your life, admit that." Lu tapped his temple, indicating that there was time when they shared their thought process. 

Haco scoffed back at him. His grey hair glinted under the sunlight that filtered through the window, as his wrinkled lips tugged upward. "I think the Holy Kingdom is indeed not my place."

There was silence that ensued as the two of them were deep in their own thought, before Haco threw the same question that he had been dying to know. 

"Was the first Serafim your mate?" 

Lu clicked his tongue. He showed the expression as if he told him that he didn't want to talk about this, but the sorcerer was persistent. 

"At least, let me died in peace. You will not die again if you answer my question, you know." Haco knew the reason why Lu died and if the first Serafim was indeed his mate, thus there was a lot of things that finally make sense now from the history that he read long time ago. 

"Yes, that cheeky woman caused my demised."

Even though that was the truth, Lu still couldn't bring himself to cuss at her and take her accountable for his death. His love for her was so deep and he was willing to go through it all over again just to keep his promised to her. 

That woman was truly the death of him, but there was no regret. 

Thankfully, he didn't need to bound with the same stupid promise he made centuries ago, now it was different lifetime. 

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At the forty- seventh lash, she stopped crying, leaving only a small whimper, his body stopped struggling and on the fifty- two last, she was not moving, neither she made a small sound, still Will continued until the last lash and only then he stopped. 

People would see him as a monster now and he didn't care. 

The young, sweet boy that they knew, someone that was still have a warm heart even after their slavery day and always looked so peaceful, as he avoided conflict and used to be the pacifist, now turned into someone else completely. 

Will wouldn't hurt someone if it was not necessary and was very compassion, but then, here he was standing in front of the bloodied girl that he whipped to death and feel nothing. He was broken beyond repaired. There was no fixing for him. 

Blood soaked the ground and some of it splashed on his chest, face and hair. His hand was bleeding because he gripped the whip tightly. 

The whip dropped from his hand and then he walked toward Iris to inform her the punishment had been delivered. 

"You may retreat," Iris said and Will immediately resigned himself, all of them knew, where he would go. "Release her."

Two guards immediately came forward and lowered Jemma's body to the ground. Her healing ability couldn't keep up with the wounds that she sustained. 

"Lu- luna…" One of the guard stuttered, as he rushed toward Iris and knelt down in front of her. He was trembling under Iris's gaze. "Luna, the girl is… dead." It sounded like a whisper, but all Iris needed was to read his lips, so she understood what he was saying. 

"Bury her."

And that was it. Iris didn't show an ounce of sympathy at all, as she turned around and left the scene. Everyone made a way for her, they were extremely afraid of their luna right now, as they tried not to get her attention and make any mistake in her presence. They felt like their dark days crept in, hovered above their head. This feeling almost the same like when alpha Gerald ruled over them. 

Meanwhile, Iris couldn't care less about this people. 

While people looked afraid of the luna, Ethan didn't feel the same, he didn't find what had happened held some meaning, but still, he instructed the guards to carry the girl's body to the mountain.  1

"Do you want to bury her there?" Jace asked, he frowned to see how nonchalant Ethan was. 

"Yes. Next to Aria's grave. The view is nice." Ethan thought about it for a while. "Do you want to come with me and visit her too?"

"No." Jace shook his head. "There is nothing to be seen. I am not interested to visit a tomb."

Ethan shrugged his shoulders. He was not really interested to see Aria's tomb either, but like he said, the view was nice and he needed some alone time for himself. 

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Will stood in front of the door to Hanna's bedroom, but he had not yet decided whether or not he wanted to enter. He still had blood on him and was at lost. He couldn't think straight, not because he just killed a young girl, who had hurt Hanna, but because he didn't feel any guilt at all from doing so and deep down, he knew it was so wrong. 

But then, after an hour of standing there, Will decided to leave at the same time someone opened the door and Amee walked out of the room. 

"How is she?" Will asked the old lady. 

"She will be fine tomorrow, Grace is with her." Amee gave him a reassuring smile and Will simply nodded politely and walked away, but Amee caught up with him. 

"Is that your blood?" Amee asked, pointing her finger at him. 

"No."

"I guess so." Amee nodded in understanding. "Thus, it must be the girl's blood. I think the luna will not mind if Grace look after her too, right?"

"I don't know." Will hastened his pace, because he didn't want to talk with Amee. 

"Go and change your clothes, cleaned yourself and come to see her." Will didn't give any reply to that, but when Amee spoke again, he halted his step for a while. "She is looking for you. You know what Will? You have given her much more pain than the wound on her face with the way you treat her."

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Jace jogged behind Iris, he caught up with her before she entered the alpha's bedroom. If Iris could hear, she would be able to hear distinguish cries from the luna's bedroom, where Maria was trying to calm Sofia down. 

She would cry even more when she learned her personal maid servant had died during the punishment. 

"Iris," Jace called Iris and grabbed her hand to stop her. 

Out of instinct, Iris swatted his hand and backed away, her eyes were on alert, even when she learned it was Jace, she didn't put her guard down. 

"What is it?" Iris asked, her voice was so calm, it almost eerie. 

Jace looked hesitated and then went to open the alpha's bedroom. "Let's talk inside." He didn't know how their conversation would go, but he was sure this was not something that other people should hear. 

Jace held the door opened and let Iris to go inside first, where her lizard immediately came to her and snuggled against the crook of her neck, seemingly very happy to see her again, since it was so rare to be inside the room, except for night, but she last night she didn't come. 

"What do you want to talk about?" Iris fished out something from her pocket and gave a piece of meat that she got from the kitchen on her way here to the little lizard, which couldn't be said as little anymore now. 

"I am not saying this because I want to say what you have done is wrong," Jace said carefully, he was trying to find the right words to say, but in this current situation, it seemed, there was nothing right. "But, I think by killing Jemma will disrupt Cane's plan."

Iris cradled her lizard in her arms, as she stared at the beta, while the creature munched on the meat happily, but its eyes fixed on Jace, as it could sense his anxiety. 

"Then what Cane's plane is?" Iris asked. "Now I think about that, I am sure he can find a way to let people know the baby is not his, why he did nothing about it?"

Jace gritted his teeth. "Maybe, that's the plan, luna," he said.

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