The Love of a Lycan

"Okay, enough!" Raine wasn't in the mood to hear Calleb and Serefina's squabble. "If you don't agree with Torak's decision, then why don't you tell me where he is?"

Raine shot a dagger-look at Calleb.

From across the seat, Calleb raised both of his hands in defeat. "I am obliged to obey my Alpha's order. Though I disagree, I still can't tell you about this as it is against the Alpha's will."

As a Gamma, he was bound to follow every order of his Alpha, especially the direct ones.

"Serefina, why don't you tell me?" Raine directed her demand at the witch. If the Lycans had to follow Torak's order, Serefina didn't have to do that. After all, she wasn't a lycan and part of the pack.

"Why should I?" Serefina looked at Raine incredulously. "Even if I will not suffer any consequences from revealing Torak's whereabouts, I will still keep my word and not tell anyone about it."

Raine really wanted to hit her head against the wall out of frustration in facing people like them.

Gritting her teeth, Raine lowered her head. She needed to do something, but what? What could she do to make them open their golden mouths and let her meet Torak.

What could she do?!

This situation irritated Raine and made her feel useless. What depressed her further was the fact that Torak needed to order them to keep her away from him, instead of letting her know and allowing her to help him.

Raphael stood up and walked towards the floor-to-ceiling window, staring down at the parking lot where the dreadful incident had occurred.

Police cars, ambulance and a fire truck had gathered there and the crowd slowly dispersed. The only people left were those reporters and a few curious spectators.

Raphael told his man to handle the situation for the meantime, have the police arrest those reporters and prepare to sue their media companies.

He had notified Jared to handle the media's issue and the news that would circulate online about this, so that no unnecessary information could pop up.

This would only add another line of work for Raphael and would consume his time.

"Raine, I think you should go before the police would come to see you. Remember, you are not involved in this incident." Raphael stated.

"How can I not be involved? There were a lot of people there who saw me come out from the burning car." Raine protested.

"Don't worry. I will handle that." Raphael dismissed Raine's assertion. "It will not be good for you if you received too much exposure. Just focus on your studies."

Serefina sneered at Raphael's statement and rolled her eyes to show her discontent. "What a good way to protect her…" She said in a mocking tone. "Why don't you just tie her on her bed so she will not go roaming around and create another troublesome incident like this?"

"Thank you for your suggestion, Serefina." Raine said sarcastically. "But I don't need that."

"You are most welcome, dear." Serefina answered Raine with the same tone. "I just voiced out what was on my mind."

Raphael stepped away from the window and picked up a phone call. "Yes. I got it… send them here in ten minutes."

Raine was still thinking about a way to get information about Torak when Raphael faced her and said, "You have to go with Calleb now, the police are coming." After saying that, Raphael threw a car key towards Calleb. "Use the north exit because the police will come through the private elevator."

Raine's eyes blazed with anger when her demand was disregarded again and again. She stood up to gather her bearing andglared at Raphael viciously.

"I am not going anywhere Raphael. Not until you bring me to Torak." Raine's voice was firm and there was not a tinge of warmth in it.

Raine didn't seem fazed and stared at Raphael intensely. This wasn't the first time for them to see Raine this angry, but this was the first time for them to feel her wrath.

"Raine, you have to understand the situation." Raphael tried to persuade her but she was dead set upon her request.

"What kind of situation? I will not be here and get attacked by those brutal people out there if it isn't because of you who kept Torak's whereabouts a secret! This chaotic situation would not have happened if you just let me know where Torak is and what happened to him that he doesn't want to see me!?" Raine bellowed in a fit of rage.

"Raine…" Raphael was speechless while Calleb and Serefina didn't want to interfere in this matter.

But Raine didn't allow Raphael to talk. She was furious to say the least.

"Shut up!" Raine shouted at Raphael from across the room. "Do you think I am just trouble for you?"

She was offended when Raphael said she didn't need to be involved with this matter when it was her life that was in danger an hour ago.

Raine even forgot about what happened inside the car, with the time ticking in the opposite direction.

They wanted to protect her by keeping her in the dark and just like what Serefina had implied, though Raine hated to admit that she was right, it didn't help her to grow strong and be responsible for herself.

"I don't think of you like that, Raine." Raphael kept trying to persuade her. "But you will be in more trouble if you were exposed to the media. It has been hard enough to protect you since you stepped out and announced your relationship with Torak."

Raphael tried to make Raine feel a little guilty about this by implying she gave everyone a hard time and that it was best to keep her away from trouble. He didn't mean to belittle her efforts all this time, but he needed to do this to stop Raine from asking about Torak.

Little did he know, Raine was fed up with those words.