The Love of a Lycan

People screamed and shouted and some of them even tried to run away from the place, afraid that it was a bomb or some kind of terrorist attack.

There was no way that a more than hundred-years old library building could suddenly collapse and in an instant, be flattened.

Commotion started to get loud as everyone tried to get away, running in different directions while keeping their family together. Raine stood there, flabbergasted and motionless.

Serefina and Raphael were standing on each of her side, staring at the same direction, their eyebrows furrowed.

"Raphael…" Raine held her breath when she spoke. "… Is that… the library that we were in?" Her question sounded unbelieving in her ears as she said it.

"Yes, it was." It was Serefina who answered this for Raine.

"Then, how about Torak?" Raine could feel her blood rushing in her veins. She was too antsy even to stay quiet like Raphael and Serefina. "We have to save him! We have to find him!"

If it wasn't because Raphael was holding her arms tightly to keep her in place, Raine would have already dashed to the collapsed building and would have started digging every inch of the debris with her bare hands to find Torak.

"Torak is there! Why don't you help him?" Raine was trying to get away from Raphael's strong hold, but she couldn't move him even an inch.

"Raine, calm down." Raphael squatted alongside Raine as he held her, preventing the Luna from rushing towards the destroyed building.

"How can I calm down?" Raine could feel the air becoming thin as she was having difficulty breathing. "Torak is there and all you are doing is staring at it?" Anger rose up from the pit of her misery.

"Let's wait for a few moments." Raphael said. He was as calm as ever and this aggravated Raine.

Why doesn't anybody feel the same as her? Wasn't Raphael Torak's second in command? Why did he not care even a bit about him?

"I don't want to wait!!!" Raine screamed as droplets of tears started to fall down her cheeks in her frustration at her helplessness.

Raine was well aware that she could not do anything to help Torak in this situation. She couldn't even break free from Raphael's tight grip.

"Raphael, please help him…" Raine turned around to look at Raphael with teary eyes and pitiful voice.

"Raine… please calm down first." Raphael pulled Raine's head and hugged her tightly so she would stop struggling. "Torak will be fine. Let's wait for awhile."

Raine finally let Raphael hold her, yet even as she rested her head on Raphael's chest, streams of tears from her red eyes continued to pour down as her breath rasped in her chest.

Meanwhile, Serefina stood on her spot, unfazed.

She didn't even flinch as she watched the building turn into dust in a matter of seconds, or as Raine began throwing a tantrum in front of her.

The witch's lime green eyes stared at the same spot steadily, without even blinking, as if she was waiting for something.

After half an hour had passed since the library building collapsed, the park, which was full of excitement, was now in chaos.

People formed a barricade behind the police line while police cars and fire trucks arrived at the crime scene.

However, as odd as it sounded, no one noticed the three people who stood in the middle of the chaos. They didn't seem to see them and the police did not even bother to remind them to stay away from the park.

Raine sat on the ground and sobbed silently in Raphael's chest as he held her head and caressed her back, her eyes didn't even for a second leave the sight in front of her.

She was hoping that he would come out and walk towards her, and hold her like he always did.

But, as seconds turned into minutes and minutes turned into hours, Raine still couldn't see the person that she wanted to see the most.

There were many victims from the sudden collapse of the building. The police and firefighters tried to get the injured people out of the scene or tried their hardest to get them out of the debris.

Ambulances came and went with its loud sirens.

In the midst of this commotion and racket, Raine's mind was in disarray, waiting in agony for Torak to return. Her tears had stopped flooding down her face, but the pain in her heart remained. In fact, if anything, her sorrow had become more prominent.

The act of waiting was killing her! She didn't know if something was happening to him or if maybe he was struggling while they were waiting, safe in the place where they stood.

"He hasn't come yet…" Raine whimpered as excruciating pain attacked her with the thought that she could lose him.

Raine's body was trembling out of fear as she faced reality.

"Raphael… why has he not come yet?" Raine asked Raphael in a voice that is barely above a whisper.

Raphael didn't have an answer to that. It has been too long since the time the Alpha was trapped there. He should have come outby now.

"Stop crying, there he is!" Serefina finally spoke.

Raine immediately lifted her head and followed the witch's line of sight, but she couldn't see him yet.

"Where is he?" Raine's heart was beating so fast against her ribcage, it was so painful.

Raphael also sniffed the air, trying to catch the scent of his Alpha before he pointed straight ahead. "There!"

As soon as Raphael said that, a figure gradually appeared among the crowd, striding towards where Raine was sitting on the ground, waiting for him.

Raine stared at the figure until she could make out his outline, which made her sigh deeply in relief. She watched Torak get closer until he stopped in front of her.

There was some dirt and blood on his face and on his brown shirt, but aside from that, he was in good condition, especially for a person who just escaped a collapsed building.

Torak squatted down and stared at his mate's disheartened state."You dropped this."

While saying that, Torak placed the white little bunny, which was a little bit dirty, on Raine's lap.