The Love of a Lycan

Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have strength.

-Napoleon Bonaparte-

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Raine could only stare as she was charmed by the baby with blue eyes who giggled at her with his toothless smile.

Raine found herself smiling back at the baby and waving her hand at him.

"Look, Torak is laughing." Diana tugged the Alpha's hand. It was quite a challenge to make the baby laugh as he would normally shy away or would rather sleep.

Janus turned around and saw the baby's happy smile. "I think he laughs because he knows today's celebration is for him." Then he felt someone tugging at his leg. He looked down and saw his eldest son.

"I want to see him too." Jedrek raised both of his arms towards his father. He was just seven years old and still not tall enough to see his little brother in their mother's embrace.

However, before Janus could carry him, Diana decided to bend her body so Jedrek could see his little brother conveniently.

As Diana was bending down, Jedrek moved to the front and covered the line of the baby's sight, blocking Raine's figure behind his small body. 

"Hmm?" Jedrek tilted his head. "Why is he frowning again?" He saw the smile on baby Torak's lips just two seconds ago, but now his lips had formed into a cute pout.

"Maybe he is hungry, honey." Diana consoled Jedrek while Janus rubbed his big palms on his son's head.

Jedrek was not satisfied with her answer and touched the baby's cheek with his small forefinger. "Smile again, will you?" He kept stroking Torak's cheek until his finger slipped into his little brother's toothless mouth, which the baby then immediately sucked. "Yuck! Disgusting!" Jedrek backed away and wiped his wet finger, which was covered with Torak's saliva, on his clothes.

Seeing that, Diana and Janus laughed loudly and happily as Diana stood up straight and kissed the baby's cheek, relishing her baby's scent.

Not long after that, one of the Lycan warriors stepped forward, greeted his Alpha and Luna and then gave them news about the situation at the village.

"There was a fight between the wizard hunters and the witches in one of the inns." Said Dmitri after Alpha Janus gave him permission to speak.

"Insolent!" Janus roared in anger. "How dare they fight in my territory?"

Diana also frowned and gave the baby Torak to a woman beside her and asked her to leave the hall. "Who instigated the attack?" Diana acted like the Luna she was and tried to understand the situation.

"It was the wizard hunter who ambushed the witch," reported Dmitri. "We found six witches dead at the inn, two were missing and another one came with me."

"Dead!?" Janus' anger reached the roof. The fight alone had already turned Janus's mood gloomy, but now they said there were victims?

All the creatures that came to celebrate the birth of their second son were considered his guests. How could he let this slide? Not only did the wizard hunters not respect the rules, but they also did not put the Alpha into their eyes before instigating something as horrendous as this.

"Where is the one who come with you?" Diana asked. While the Alpha was so agitated with the news, Diana was more cool-headed. That was why both of them were compatible rulers. They complement each other.

"She is the little sister of the witch who was missing." Dmitri informed his Luna and signaled to the other two lycan warriors that stayed with Raine to bring her over.

Raine saw the signal too and the two lycans near her came closer as one of them said. "The Alpha and Luna want to see you."

Raine nodded and walked towards the thrones with the two lycan warriors flanking her side.

However, when Raine was close enough to see, she realized that the baby was no longer in the Luna's arms. Where is baby Torak? Raine frowned slightly.

Because of the crowd, she did not see Diana give the baby to her attendant and asked her to leave the main hall.

As Raine drew closer to the two rulers, she could see that Torak got his eyes and temper from his father, but he got the shape of his face from his mother. That was why Torak looked so charming and beautiful, but still has that masculinity and dangerous side of his father.

Raine was clueless as to how to greet both of them, so she slightly bent her knees and raised the side of her dress a little bit, like the way a princess would when greeting noble people in movies that she had watched.

Raine thought that was probably the right move or the Alpha and Luna just have another concern to focus on rather than criticize the way she greeted them.

"Are you the little sister of the missing witch?" Janus asked Raine. His voice boomed across the hall and drew all the people's attention.

The noisy sounds of chattering gradually quieted down, leaving only an uncomfortable silence.

Raine became slightly nervous as she felt that all pairs of eyes were now focused on her.

Raine cleared her throat and started to tell her story about how she travelled here with her sister, Serefina, and her friend, Fabian.

She told them about the wizard hunter that followed them from the bar and how, when they were in their separate rooms at the inn to take a rest, they were attacked.And that after Serefina took care of the five witches who attacked them inside their room,she went to help Fabian and left Raine alone.

"Took care of the five witches?" Diana frowned, her white gown fluttered when she moved closer towards Raine. "Dmitri just told us there were five dead bodies of witches inside the room, so it was your sister that killed them and not the wizard hunters?" Diana narrowed her eyes.

Dmitri also looked at Raine in confusion. "I thought it was the wizard hunters who killed them." He voiced out what was on his mind.

No matter what the reason, fighting, more so killing was forbidden in their territory on this occasion.