Maximus met Jedrek in the backyard, where the latter was standing alone under the moonlight, caressing a flower which Maximus didn't even remember was there when the last time he visited this castle.
"Your majesty," Maximus greeted Jedrek solemnly, but his eyes said otherwise. He would have dug his claws if he was able to do so right at this moment. He never liked jedrek, ever since they were little.
His Gregory family was one of the most powerful family when Janus was still an Alpha. However, because of a wrong decision on their part, Jedrek sentenced his whole family to death.
Maximus was lucky enough to survive that massacre by pretending to turn his back on his family declaring that he gave them up. They planned it momentarily when they found out that the devils would lose the war. If he didn't do so, he would have been dead centuries ago and the Gregory family line would have ended on that faithful day.