Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 250: Frozen Lake, Frozen Heart

Long Xiurong gazed at Swan’s belly and felt even more guilty, knowing that she might have been the cause of the death of a mother and her baby.

She was a practical and nonchalant lady. Most of the time, she didn’t really care about the well-being of others, as long as she wasn’t hurt or hurting others.

Someone could even call her selfish, and Long Xiurong would agree.

But not this time.

She was fully aware that it was her fault for being careless.

"Gale might be angry at you, but if I protect you with all my might, he might let you leave the castle without hunting you down. You should run away now, though. We don’t know if Gale might explode in rage and kill anyone on sight before he calms down," Swan suggested. "Though, I doubt that. He was very gentle to me, even during his worst rut on the coldest night."

"Then how about you? Will you just accept your death? Rock must’ve directly mentioned you many times in that letter!" Long Xiurong insisted. "Swan, please... let’s just run away. I will feel guilty for the rest of my life if I leave you to die here."

"It is my choice, so you don’t need to feel guilty. We don’t have much time left. Let me call the cat maids first," Swan said.

Long Xiurong clenched her fists. She knew she had to run and it would be a stupid decision not to, but...

"I will stay," Long Xiurong stated firmly.

Swan’s eyes widened, "And why would you do that? We don’t have time to argue, Lady Long."

"I will stay," Long Xiurong repeated. "I don’t think it’s fair for you to bear all the burden of the sin, especially when I am an active participant."

"This is not the time to play brave..."

"I am scared, Your Majesty. But I am not going to run away like a coward while you are trying to protect me," Long Xiurong said. "I will stay, and I will admit my mistake."

"But your life with Rock..."

"If I die today, then I guess Rock and I are not meant to be together. I absolutely will NOT leave you alone."

...

"You can go back to your room, Lady Long. If you change your mind, you can always tell your attendant to deliver your message to the cat maids. I’ll make sure the cat maids prepare everything for your escape," Swan relented.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I bid you goodbye, as this might be our last meeting," Long Xiurong lowered her head, put her hands in front of her bosom, and bent her knees. She was doing the official greeting for the noble female from the Eastern Long Dynasty. "May the Goddess protect you."

Swan stared at Long Xiurong as she left the room, and murmured, "May the goddess protect us, Lady Long..."

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Gale went far from the castle, making sure that even if he turned into his true wolf form out of rage, he still wouldn’t hurt his beloved and his future cub.

He continued rushing through the cold night, going in random directions, and finally ended up in a place that he hated the most, because this place was where he was saved from certain death and got cursed by the Moon Goddess herself.

He was in the Sacred Selene Lake all by himself. He took off his blindfold and stared at the frozen lake with his cursed gaze that could kill anyone.

The Sacred Selene Lake had a completely different temperature from the other area because it was constantly under the Moon Goddess’ watch, so Gale could only bring Swan to this lake in summer or late spring, or else it would be way too cold for her.

"Oh? And who do we have here?"

Gale looked up and saw the white rabbit descending from the moon. The white rabbit seemed to be in a good mood because she kept hopping in the air around Gale.

"The moon is beautiful tonight, but why are you sad, little wolf?"

Gale didn’t answer that question immediately, because his chest was still stuffy. It was so difficult to speak when all he wanted to do right now was to thrash his area in his true wolf form and howl as loud as he could to let out the pain stuck in his heart.

The white rabbit continued circling around Gale until she commented, "Is it about your wife again? Did you two have a fight? I told you already, you need to find that angel, your fated mate!"

"Shut up, you stupid rabbit. I’m not in the mood to argue with you," Gale said harshly.

"I see~ So you just fought with her? Why do you need to come here if it’s just a marital quarrel?" the white rabbit continued chattering.

Gale decided to ignore her, and sat on the ground, leaning on the broken statue directly facing the Moon Goddess’ statue.

The white rabbit landed on the Moon Goddess’ statue, staring at the cursed wolf who was holding a piece of letter and a tusk pendant.

"Are those your wife’s?"

"No," Gale refuted quickly. But that was because he wished Swan had nothing to do with these things. "It was from a traitorous bastard called Rock Silverfang."

"Oh~ is he back?" The white rabbit chuckled. "You’ve been adamant about hunting him down and killing him, but I see no success so far."

"I will kill him after reading this letter. I will probably turn into my true wolf form and track him down for days until I can find him," Gale said.

The white rabbit stopped chuckling as she sensed the seriousness.

"You are going to make your wife sad. She is a soft-hearted woman. Killing your trusted aide and probably the only person you can call a friend will make her cry."

Gale scoffed, "I don’t care about what she thinks. She can cry all she wants after I put that bastard’s head on our dining table."