"What else do you want to hear from me?" Abby gritted her teeth. The only consolation that she had was her baby. Grace had said that the baby was fine. Whatever Elder Rose was trying to do to her, she couldn’t go through with it because someone interfered, but where was Liam?
Her heart ached to see him. She wanted to know if he was fine. She had lost Cedric, she couldn’t lose him too. The last time she saw him was when she asked for Grace because she was in pain.
That was all. That was the last time she saw him... and Abby was afraid that would be truly their last moment together. How unfair it was...
"The baby is fine, how can you say that your mother wanted to kill her own granddaughter?" Elder Xarex retorted.
Abby scoffed. "Did she ever see me as a daughter?"
Right at that time, Rei entered the room with two men by his side, they were the people from the pure faction.
To Cane and Iris’s surprised, Rei looked fine. Redmond and Jace narrowed their eyes too, because they happened to see how his body had burned, flames engulfed him completely, but right now, he was unscathed.
How that could possibly happen? He was not a shifter, neither he had the ability to heal so fast, right?
Then they were reminded about the ritual. Yet, based on what Abby said, even with the ritual, Rei still needed time to recuperate and recover completely. What kind of magic he had? Was he that powerful?
"I am sorry for making everyone waited for me, there are a few things I need to take care of," Rei said lightly. There was no trace of the earlier fight. He looked like the fire didn’t even reach him. He was fine. Completely fine.
How this could be possible? Lou was still unconscious and Grace stayed with him, just in case his condition took a drastic turn.
Iris and Abby managed to dispel the curse that Rei inflicted on him, Iris made sure of it, since she checked on Lou thrice. The merchant would have guffawed smugly to learn Iris was extremely worried about him, unfortunately, he was not even aware of his surroundings.
"Can you see that? He is fine, how could you say he was burning? No matter how great of a magic user he is, he will not be able to appear in good condition if he was really being burned." Elder Xarex gloated. He felt relief because Rei finally made an appearance, he could press this matter onto the alpha now.
"You mean dark magic user, right?" Redmond corrected him, where he was rewarded a glare, yet, he had seen worst than only a simple glare from almost a century year old man.
"I am not sure if I understood what happened here, someone cared to explain?" Rei looked at Cane shamelessly, while the alpha clenched his jaw tightly.
Cane still couldn’t figure out how he could leave unscathed when Lou was on the verge of death.
Elder Xarex took this opportunity to explain what the commotion was about. Despite their often argumentation and how they came from different faction, they were still coming from the same place and people outside from their continent was still outsider, in their eyes, they had to stick together.
"Me? Fighting with Lou?" Rei blinked his eyes innocently. "You will not believe that, right? If the accusation is true, can you explain how can I still live when I supposed to be burned to death?"
Iris had never seen someone so shameless like him. She wanted to go and confront this man, screaming at his face for hurting Lou, but Cane’s grip on her hand tightened, a warning for her to not do anything recklessly.
Meanwhile, Jace and Redmond looked at the alpha, they were looking for any sign of what they should do now.
"The Serafim can vouch for what happened," Redmond chimed in, he was being impatient because Cane didn’t say anything.
"She just woke up, she must have been confused and not yet gathered her composure, we can’t take her word as the truth." Elder Dandolf finally opened his mouth. He always had something to say whenever it came to Rei.
"I know what I saw!" Abby gritted her teeth, but Elder Rose immediately came to her.
"You don’t know what you are talking about," Elder Rose said, she stretched out her hand to calm Abby down, but she swatted it. "Calm down, Abby. You only make thing worst."
Other people might not be able to hear it, but there was a warning in the way Elder Rose was speaking to her. She warned her to get along and Abby usually would give in, after all, it was hard to break an old habit when people that you considered close to you, kept telling you what you felt or what you saw. You would start to question yourself.
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