Chapter 966   - THEY ARE AWAKE

Hope opened her eyes and found Ethan beside her. He was sitting next to her bed on a chair, with his head hanging low.

But, when he caught a small movement from Hope, he raised his head as his eyes widened in disbelief.

"Hope!" he exclaimed. He moved to sit down on the edge of her bed and watched her blinking her eyes sleepily. "Finally you are awake! I thought I will never get to talk with you again."

Hope tried to sit down and Ethan immediately helped her.

"How long have I been passed out?" Hope leaned her back against the pillows that Ethan arranged for her and observed her surroundings. She recognized this place. This was her room with Kace. "Where is Kace?"

"You have been passed out for almost two weeks," Ethan answered ina concerned tone. "How are you feeling now?" he asked again and stood up before walking to the table and poured a glass of water.

"I am fine," Hope said in a slightly hoarse voice as she received the glass of water that Ethan gave to her. "Where is Kace?" she asked the same question again. "Why is he not here?"

Hope thought the first person that she would see the moment she opened her eyes was her mate. Kace wouldn't leave her if it was not something very important, right?

But to think that some important issue came up at a moment like this, was a little bit scary, it wouldn't be a good news after all.

Ethan sighed deeply and sat down again on the bed. From his expression, it was clear to see that he was reluctant to tell Hope, especially when she just woke up from her coma state. "Take care of yourself first…"

Hope narrowed her eyes upon hearing that answer. Her guts told her that something was wrong. "Tell me now," she said. Hope didn't ask, but demanded an answer from Ethan. "Where is he? What is happening?"

Ethan tried to avoid Hope's eyes, but he couldn't keep this as a secret. Not even for a second longer.

"Kace and the other two Donovans went to the battlefield yesterday." Ethan finally admitted to her, and as expected, he could see a strong reaction from Hope.

"But, why? What happened?" Hope straightened her back immediately. If Kace chose to leave her here while Jedrek and Torak also agreed to join him, it meant something really, really bad had happened.

"The devils…"

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"…the devils resurrected all the dead shifters that were killed in the battle and now they became their army along with the dark creatures from hell," Sebastian told Lilac, his voice and his expression turned dark when he let her know what exactly happened while she was unconscious.

"D*mn those devils!" Lilac cursed loudly and this startled the general.

Hearing Jedrek curse someone was something that he was used to hear after centuries of being with him, but to hear it from Lilac, it gave a different affect.

She looked fierce and bold.

Sebastian should have realized it since the moment Lilac made a grand entrance while demanding a meeting with Jedrek right after stepping foot in the King's castle, that this guardian angel was anything but weak.

However, the rumor about the guardian angels being weak that had been engraved in their minds had clouded his judgment and made him underestimate his own queen.

"Yes, that's why the King is not here. They went to the battlefield yesterday." Jedrek left him here to take care of Lilac and took Lyrus and Theo instead with him along with the other lycanthropes.

"What else?" Lilac glared daggers at Sebastian and he could feel a sudden urge to bow his head, under such a fierce gaze.

Even though Lilac was not angry at him particularly, but she was definitely livid right now, therefore for the sake of his own safety and before the queen decided to strangle him with her roots, he spoke the truth. All of it…

About the battlefield, the humans that committed genocide to kill all of the creatures that were of non- human existence without knowing that the real threat was something beyond their imagination.

At this point, the number of the shifters had decreased rapidly because they had to fight the devils, the humans and the vampires at the same time.

"We are facing problems in dividing our people to protect the four spots…" Sebastian told her again and went into details without Lilac having to ask him first.

They had to defend four locations all in all, which were shelters for the shifters who weren't fighting, such as; women, elders and children.

And now they didn't have enough people for that anymore.

The Donovans finally took this matter seriously, but Sebastian felt like it was too late for them to get back up, after seeing their situation turn like this.

Even when they stepped into the battlefield themselves while the dead shifters being resurrected continued, it didn't help a lot and they still had to think about what they had to do next to stop those creepy creatures from coming back alive.

"The sanctuary in the dragon shifter's castle have been surrounded for two days and it is only a matter of time before those vampires decided to breakthrough their final defense and slaughter them all." Sebastian gritted his teeth.

The sanctuary in the dragon shifter's castle was the place where they stayed before they were teleported to Rieka.

"Impossible…" Lilac murmured and shook her head in disbelief, the situation escalated faster than what she anticipated.

After Sebastian told her everything, there was a moment of silence before Lilac threw away the blanket that wrapped her body and tried to stand up.

However, because she had been laying down for so long, her legs gave up on her and she was about to fall down.

Seeing how Lilac was not stable, Sebastian immediately stretched out his hand and helped her to steady herself.

"Where are you going? I think you need to take some rest…" he suggested, after she regained her footing.

"No, this is not the time to rest. I have to go," Lilac said stubbornly.

She was sure that Hope should be awake right now, but she was not sure about Raine…