The Love of a Lycan

"What is that smell?" Torak opened the door harshly. His expression turned rigid when he saw Raine's condition. "Blood?" He growled out the word and strode towards Raine.

"Torak… I…" Raine was still confused at the sudden change of environment and time. Moreover, Serefina wasn't there to explain what actually happened to them.

And how about Fabian? What happened to him? And what about their trip to get the grimoire? The battle in the castle? How about Aeon? Where is he? Is he still in the past? Where is Serefina?There were just too many unanswered questions…

However, no one could answer her because Serefina's last words were to keep this matter a secret.

'The knowledge of the past should be kept in the past.'

"Are you hurt? Why are you wearing this dress?" Torak checked on her thoroughly, but apparently the blood on her hair, face and dress were not hers. Gently, he pinched her chin to make her look at him. "My love… tell me what happened?"

Torak could feel his beast prowling at the edge of his head, anxious at the sight of his mate splattered with blood.

Raine was flustered and disoriented. She frowned when she looked at Torak in the eyes. "Torak, how long was I missing?"

That was the first question that came out from her mouth as she looked at Torak with fear and bewilderment.

"How long?" Torak furrowed his brows and he pulled Raine close to him. "You just went down two minutes ago my love, but how did you end up like this? What happened? Whose blood is this?"

He was very worried but he tried to suppress it, just in case his mate got scared. But he couldn't help but grit his teeth and question himself with the same questions.

Did he fail to protect her again? Just how many times would Raine get hurt while under his protection?Shouldn't she be safe with him?

Those questions kept banging his head as he felt useless. He was at a loss about how to protect her. His protective side and most part of his beast wanted to keep Raine to himself twenty four hours, hiding her from the wild world outside.

However, he knew that wasn't the solution. Raine would become depressed. Torak really wanted to let Raine do whatever she would like to do.

Torak was contradicting himself.

"My love?" Torak tried to call her, seeing her eyes were distracted as if her mind was somewhere else. "Raine!" He was too antsy that he called out her name. This was the first time Torak called her by her name.

Gradually, Raine's eyes shifted back to Torak and focused on him.

She opened her mouth and whispered very softly."Torak… I just killed someone."

As she wasn't allowed to say anything about what had happened and since Torak wouldn't be able to answer all of her questions, her thought focused on the other thing that had been bothering her.

"You… killed someone?" Torak furrowed his eyebrows.

Raine was only out of his sight for two minutes, so how on earth could she have killed someone during that short period of time? He also didn't hear anything.

"No… my love… you killed no one. See for yourself, there is no one inside this room." Torak scanned the room for her and shook his head. "There is no one here."

What actually happened to his mate?

"No, Torak… not in this time… on another time…" Raine uttered as her mind was still spinning.

Torak narrowed his eyes and when understanding dawned on him, his expression turned ashen. "It's Serefina, right? She came here." That wasn't a question, but a statement.

When he saw his mate nod her head, he pulled her close and hugged her tightly. "Tell me what happened. Where did you go this time?"

Raine was confused too. She had been gone for two days, but apparently in real time, time didn't move as fast and she was still on the same day and at about the same moment as when Serefina had taken her.

How could that be possible? The first time she traveled back to the past, the time she was missing was in sync with the time she was at the village of angels.

Was this because of Serefina?

"Who did you kill?" Torak asked again.

"A wizard hunter." Raine said as she wrapped her arms around Torak's waist, relishing the feeling of safety whenever she was with him.

Torak closed his eyes to calm the anger that clawed his entire body.

Lycanthropes and the wizard hunters were not in good terms for centuries. There was an event in the past that severed their relationship, but Torak was unsure what it was.

Because Torak didn't care about that, he had never tried to find out why.

"The wizard hunter wanted to hurt you?" Torak asked with his eyes still closed, a feeling of guilt for not being able to protect his mate gnawed at his heart.

"He wanted to kill me…" Raine said as she hugged Torak tighter. She could feel his body tense when she said that, so she added, "But it's alright… I killed him first…"

"You should. You have to." Torak said firmly, his voice rough. He buried his nose at the crook of her shoulder, taking the liberty to breathe in her scent.

"I killed someone Torak…" Raine repeated pitifully.

Torak didn't know what to say to console her because in his world, you have to kill before someone kills you. That was a common thing.

Hence, Torak was a little bit at a loss about how Raine felt about it. Why does this matter seem so big for her? Even as he didn't quite understand his mate's feeling right now, Torak still tried his best to persuade her. "If it makes you slightly feel at ease, I will let you know that I have killed thousands of creatures. You have done a great job of killing someone who wanted to harm you."

Raine frowned and pushed Torak away as she stared at him sullenly.

Are those supposed to be comforting words?What kind of comforting words were those?