The Love of a Lycan

"So it's hard to protect me?" Raine said snidely. She gave Raphael a side look before she turned around and walked out of the office. "If you find it hard to protect me then don't do it!" She stated icily.

Raphael was speechless. He didn't know since when it became difficult to deal with Raine. She has changed… a lot.

"Where are you going?" Raphael asked with a frown when he saw Raine walking out of the room. It would be good if she followed Raphael's order to go home with Calleb through the north exit, but he doubted that was what she would do now.

Raine was too incensed to answer him and just walked away without looking back.

It was Calleb who ran after her. "I will try to persuade her, well… but, Icannot promise..." He murmured as he walked past Raphael.

Calleb managed to catch up to her when she entered the elevator. The Gamma needed to risk his hand when he tried to stop the metal door from closing.

"Raine! I almost lost my hand!" Calleb yelled and cradled his hand dramatically as he entered the elevator. "You didn't even try to hold open the door."

Raine didn't even show any reaction at Calleb's clumsy jokes. She folded her hands in front of her chest while her expression was devoid of any emotion.

"You know how strict Raphael is… he follows the Alpha's order." Calleb shook his head. "No, in fact, it's very hard to disobey an Alpha's order. It would feel like you are going against your nature."

Calleb glanced at Raine who still didn't show any reaction. He sighed helplessly. It is becoming harder and harder to talk with stubborn Raine.

Why is her attitude more and more like Torak's?

The elevator opened with a soft sound when they reached the first floor.

As soon as the metal door opened, Raine stepped out without even looking at Calleb. She turned right and walked straight to the lobby.

At that moment, Calleb knew that Raine was up to something. "Raine, the north exit is in the opposite direction." Calleb informed her because they were told to take the north exit when going out.

Just like before, there was no response from Raine as she strode across the lobby. She received many greetings from the staff who walked past her, yet none of them was responded to by Raine.

"Raine, where are you going?" With Calleb's long legs, it was easy to catch up to her. "Raine!" He grabbed her hand to stop her from walking straight to the lobby door where many people were, among them the police, firefighters, staff and members of the media.

The news of today's event would surely shake the entire city once again, just like when Torak announced Raine as his woman.

It was a good thing that Raine had already come to age and she was considered an adult. But even if they couldn't attack them with Raine's young age, they still talked about the huge age gap between the two of them.

"If you don't want to tell me where Torak is, fine!" Raine snapped at Calleb. "I will find him!"

Calleb shook his head. "Raine, the Alpha is not in a place you can easily find." He lowered his voice because of the people around them. "Let's go home first."

Raine swatted Calleb's hand away from her as she glared at him viciously. "Didn't you hear what I said? I will not go back until I find where Torak is and what happened to him."

"Raine…" Calleb wanted to say something, but Raine cut him off icily.

"Am I your Luna or just Torak's mate?" She asked in a deep voice.

Calleb frowned. He didn't know why Raine asked him that question. "Of course you are the Alpha's mate, and that makes you a Luna!"

Raine bit her lips. So it's just like what she thought! She was the Alpha's mate, not the Luna of the pack.

They thought of her as Torak's woman first, not as someone who was equal to the Alpha.

Hence, they would respect her as Torak's woman, but the title of Luna was only in honor of her being Torak's mate, not something that had any specific or significant importance to them.

Even Calleb and Raphael thought that way…

Raine had to admit that Serefina's harsh words proved to be true. No one in the pack would look at her, because the one that they looked up to was someone behind her.

In the past, it didn't bother Raine at all. In the past, not to mention that she would have wanted to make other people respect her, she was even just very grateful if they didn't try to hurt her.

However, when Raine had come to terms and accepted that she wanted to be with Torak and to feel being loved by him so much until she wanted to do everything to be able to be with him, she realized that she could no longer stand by and simply let herself be protected continuously.

Torak was one of the strongest creatures, but that fact didn't stop his enemies from attacking him relentlessly. They would try to find his weakness and now, the sole weakness that Torak had was Raine.

His mate.

Raine didn't want to be Torak's weakest point. Thus, she was determined to get stronger and yet, after what she had gone through and after all of her effort to push herself to be the better version of herself, apparently it still wasn't enough.

Now, what upset her greatly was the way that they didn't take her and her words seriously. She just wanted to meet with Torak and to know what happened to him.

And the more they tried to hide this matter from her, the more Raine became anxious. Raphael and Calleb's attitude only aggravated her further.

"If you think of me as your Luna, tell me where Torak is." Raine didn't hold much hope in her words. She had been asking the same thing in different words, yet to no avail.

"I am sorry, I can't…" Calleb looked at her apologetically. He stretched out his hand to take Raine's hand, but once again Raine refused to be touched.

And then it happened.