The Love of a Lycan

Lidya was surprised by the attitude that Raine revealed to her.She could see the hostility from her eyes. How could a guardian angel have that kind of feeling?

That wasn't their nature.

Raine wasn't a beast, or shapeshifter. Because those kinds were more aggressive, and arrogant.She wasn't a witch either because witches were cunning.

Lidya started to doubt Raine's identity as a guardian angel.Her attitude and behavior is more inclined to as humans rather than a guardian angel. 

But, the feeling that she felt from her, and remembering how Lucas had explained how he found her in the Desert of No Return, was irrefutable evidence. 

"Raine, I just told them what you have told me." Lidya tried to justify her action. 

Raine looked at Lidya and saw the remorse in her obsidian eyes. "Yes, I told you that.But wasn't that you were the one who said that I should never say it to anyone else?" She furrowed her brows. "Fortunately, there was nothing major that happened to me.But what if they decided to do more than just locking me inside the dungeon?"

Lidya lowered her head once again, and said something meekly. "I am sorry, I was just thinking how to save this village from those lycanthropes. And because you were saying that you are Torak's mate, I thought they came for you… isn't that what you want?" Lidya raised her head, and looked at Raine. "—to return to your mate?"

Yes, that was exactly what Raine wanted.But something was wrong, something was totally going wrong. The fact that Torak wanted to kill her, didn't sit right with her. 

He had done everything to make sure that she was safe, even when she was handed over to Serefina. Torak moved to the same city as her, and sent Jack to keep an eye on her. It was only for her.

But, it was different now. In this place, not only did Torak want to kill her, but he also wanted to harm the whole village, weighing an unnecessary battle.

What kind of place was this actually?

Raine also wanted to know why Torak's pack wanted to take all of the guardian angels.Based on what she heard, lycanthropes didn't even bother with their existences, because they despised the weak creatures like guardian angels. 

But, why did they suddenly change their perspective?

"We need to go from here." Raine didn't say that she had forgiven her.However, she had seen many people who ended up hurting each other, intentionally or unintentionally. All that just to get what they wanted or for something that they thought was the right thing to do. And now Lidya wasn't an exception.

She was just another person who had treated her that way.

But now, Raine didn't want to stay there any longer.If those lycanthropes really wanted to kill her, and Torak didn't even recognize her, then she shouldn't stay and wait there to be slaughtered. 

Raine had seen how feral Torak could be whenever he let his beast take over.And she didn't want to be the target, not until she got the answer to why did Torak change all of a sudden.

"Where is the bunker?" Raine asked Lidya, but the corner of her eyes caught the sight of the river. "The river froze." She stated. "But, you said the river will never freeze."

"Yes, it started to happen two days ago." Lidya stared at the river as well. "This never happened before." 

When the people from the village found out about this, they began to panic.Because their water supply came from this river only. Not to mention this anomaly happened at the same time with the demand from the lycanthropes. 

No one knew what happened to the river, and they had no time to figure this out too. 

"We need to go." Lidya grabbed Raine's hand again, but this time Raine let her lead the way.

Yet, before they could go far, an ear-splitting roar erupted, forcing Raine and Lidya to stop their step and closed their ears with both hands.

The roar lasted for a long time, and they couldn't pinpoint from which direction it came from. It felt like they were surrounded by hundreds of Lycans, as the erupting roar was reverberated and echoed in the air. 

Once it stopped, Lidya reached out to hold Raine. "Are you all right?" She asked with concern.

"I am all right…" Raine nodded.But her eyes shifted from side to side, as if she was looking for the lycan who had made that clamorous sound. Part of her hoped to see the beautiful white lycan that she knew, but she could find nothing. 

"There is fire…" Lidya pointed her hand to Raine's left side, her face suddenly turned pale and her fingers trembled. 

Raine turned to see the direction where Lidya was pointing, and watched in horror when the fire was blazing with black and thick smoke soared high in the sky.

A second ago, the fire was not there. And now, it looked like the flame had almost burnt down the entire area. 

Looking around at the rest of the village, the same thing also happened in a blink of an eye. 

Raine felt like she was watching television, where she switched the channel and watched about an arson on the news channel. 

Fire was everywhere, surrounded them…

It was a horrible scene, the village slightly glowed in a florescent orange border, whilst being attacked viciously by angry flames. Flames that were wiping out the burning houses made of wood.

Black dust hung in the air and soon invaded Raine's and Lidya's lungs as they stayed there.

"This is witchcraft…" Lidya said, coughing. She covered her mouth with her hand, trying to prevent herself from breathing the smoke.

Raine grabbed Lidya's hand and pulled her back to the river. 

But, as soon as she turned around she saw a woman's figure that she recognized.

She was wearing a beautiful white overcoat with her short red hair tied neatly under her nape, the color of her hair was akin to the flame that surrounded them.

"Serefina…" Raine said her name dubiously, but the witch had her back facing Raine, so she didn't realize that she was there.