The Love of a Lycan

"Let's focus on the problem at hand first." Raphael rubbed his face roughly to get rid of his exhaustion.

Once again silence fell as both Serefina and Raphael were in deep thought regarding various matters.

"How long do you think will Torak's condition last?" Raphael broke the silence between them. He tilted his head at Serefina, curious to know what the witch was thinking now. She has been looking at Raine strangely ever since they boarded the plane.

"I don't know. I have never been very fond of lycans, so I am lacking knowledge about your kind." There was sarcasm and irony in the way Serefina spoke.

How could she say that she wasn't very fond of lycans when, centuries ago, she had a relationship with one of the greatest lycans?

Yet Raphael was wise enough not to bring this matter up. It was a rare occasion for both of them to have a peaceful conversation, thus he didn't want to ruin it by provoking the witch's patience.

"May I know why you are staring at her that way?" Raphael changed the topic. If Serefina said she didn't know how to fix Torak's condition, than that might be true.

Serefina shifted her gaze from Raine to Raphael's face. She wanted to make a sharp remark, but then the rare tranquility that engulfed them made her held back her tongue.

"I feel something is off with her." Serefina said calmly. "Given her nature, she seems to have become unreasonably very bold."

Raphael glanced at Raine beside him and sighed. "The situation forced her to be like that in order to survive." Then he stared at Serefina. "Isn't this the attitude that you want for her to have?"

"Yes…" Serefina replied doubtfully, as if she wasn't sure about it. "Courage is needed for every creature, not to mention those who were born to lead. It is only right for a Luna to be bold and hold her ground steadily."

"But…?" Raphael could feel the contradiction in Serefina's words. Though that was what she was saying, Raphael could hear the dubiousness in her voice.

"I am thinking about the book." Serefina leaned back against her seat.

"The book?" Raphael frowned. "Which book?"

"The book that the shadow warrior gave to her and claimed that it was the grimoire that we have been looking for." Serefina explained. Raphael knew what she and Raine were searching for when they traveled back to the past.

"What happened to that book?" Raphael didn't understand why Serefina was talking about that book when they were now just talking about Raine's recent behavior.

"That book has her blood on it." Serefina caught a glimpse of that book and the small wound in Raine's hand. "The blood of the guardian angel could be a cure for some creatures but could be a poison for the rest."

"What do you want to say?" Raphael leaned closer to Serefina, suddenly feeling restless at this fact. He then contemplated, trying to put together the pieces of his memories of that day in the library. "Lucifer has the book and the blood also…"

"Yes…" Serefina nodded. "I don't know what he is plotting with Raine's blood, but it must be something that doesn't benefit us."

"And the shadow warrior helped him to achieve that…" Even though the shadow warrior was his enemy as he coveted their Luna, Raphael didn't think that he would do Raine any harm. Raine had told him about how he had saved her a couple of times that was why she had a fight with Torak before.

Because Raine spoke for him and it incurred the Alpha's wrath.

"I don't think the shadow warrior will intentionally try to hurt her." Serefina twirled her short hair between her fingers as she thought about it. "I was there when the village of angel still existed and I know very well how protective the shadow warriors were to the guardian angels bestowed upon them."

"She is the Alpha's mate." Somehow Raphael was irked when Serefina implied that their Luna belonged to another random creature.

"I didn't say she is not." Serefina refuted. "There are two possibilities. Either the shadow warrior was being fooled by Lucifer, which is the most possible case, or both of them planned this together."

"Either way, it will not be good for us." Raphael concluded.

"Hmm." Serefina mumbled.

"Do you think that the attack this afternoon has anything to do with this?" Something clicked in his mind when Serefina mentioned the devil's plot with the book which has Raine's blood on it.

"There will always be a possibility of that." Serefina was unsure with her answer. "We need to find out more about this."

The rest of the remaining two hours was filled with silence before they arrived in Red River City.

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At another place, inside a gloomy room that lacked light, where the only living creatures were those from the dark, a man with golden eyes stared at the red liquid on the wine glass in his hand.

"This is the book that you mentioned?" Another man with brown eyes and skin as pale as those of dead people lifted the book beside Lucifer carefully.

His straight black hair was combed to the back of his head and tied into a man bun, his eyes slightly narrowed, but it couldn't conceal the excitement in his eyes.

When Lucifer nodded lazily, the man brought the book to his nose to smell it. To be exact, he smelled the spot where it looked darker, where something had tainted the cover of the black book.

Once he took a whiff of it, his eyes rolled back as his sharp breath was clearly heard. He groaned in pleasure at the scent.

"What creature is this…?" He asked throatily, gripping the book tightly and sniffing it again as if addicted to the scent.

But in the next second, the book disappeared from his hand and at the same time reappeared at the hand of a woman, who was sitting across the two men.