The Love of a Lycan

The room was so dark when Belinda entered, while holding the tray with her left hand, she pressed a switch with her right hand and immediately the whole room was illuminated with the bright light.

"Raine?" Belinda called out her name, but she got no reply from her. "I brought you your dinner, you have to eat something, okay? Or else you will hurt yourself."

Only after Belinda put down the tray on the small table beside the bed, did she realize that Raine wasn't on the bed because the blanket only covered a pillow beneath it.

"Raine?" Belinda tugged the blanket away just for making sure that Raine was indeed not here and sure enough, no one was there.

Hastily, she went out of the room and rushed toward the dining table where Raphael and Calleb were still sitting.

"Raine is gone!" Belinda said in panic. 

"Hha?"Calleb put down the phone in his hand and stared at Belinda. "Are you sure?"

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Raine couldn't sleep, she was not even able to close her eyes without being haunted by the image of the white beast in his miserable state.

Raine sat down on her bed as she stared blankly at the wall in front of her. She didn't even have time to appreciate how beautiful and nice the room that she was occupying now as her heart was thumping faster until it hurt.

All her memories with Torak flooded her mind and that was so painful when she had to lose the man that had loved her unconditionally.

Lose him?

Somewhere, among the memories that she shared with Torak, there was a moment when she was so scared of him when he lost himself over his beast and killed another Lycan without even batting an eye.

'The thought of hurting you will never cross my mind, even if I lost myself to my beast, he will continue to protect you.' Torak's eyes slightly dimmed, the angst in his heart ate him alive. 'But, I think in the end I still hurt you in one way or another and I am sorry for that…'

Raine inhaled sharply and as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water, an understanding dawned upon her

Raine didn't even realize when she started to rush out of her room and headed toward the underground door where they held the beast. 

However, when she tried to open the knob, it was locked. She tried a couple more times and even pushed the locked door with her weak body, but to no avail.

After one hour passed and her attempts still didn't give any result, she rested her back against the door and slumped on to the floor.

Raine could faintly hear the beast's painful howls that echoed through the wall behind the closed door, as if he was calling for someone.

He was calling for her… his mate…

Yet, here Raine was, hugging her body without knowing what she could do to ease the pain for the beast down there. 

The agonizing sound reverberated through the walls and echoed in her own heart, causing a mental pain to her as if someone crushed her entire body ruthlessly. 

There were no tears, though. Raine was too tired to even cry. She clutched the front of her shirt to reduce the pain in her heart, but it didn't help her much. 

Raine lost track of time when she was sitting there, she didn't know how long she satin that position until Serefina's voice snapped her back from the dark place that engulfed her soul. 

"What are you doing there?" Serefina frowned. She stared down at Raine with her lime green eyes, which traced from Raine's ghastly pale face to the door behind her, where a creepy howl could be heard from. "Do you want to meet him?" She guessed. 

"Can I?" In her devastated state, her voice sounded like someone just strangled her. 

"If you want to meet him, why don't you go inside?" Serefina said in matter a of fact tone, yet when she watched the frown on Raine's face, in an instant she knew what the problem was. "Oh! My beautiful goddess!" She exclaimed exasperatedly. 

After throwing a sarcastic remark, Serefina walked past Raine and retrieved a key from under a lamp post beside the door.

"Are you looking for this?" The key dangled from Serefina's delicate finger. 

Raine pushed herself up to stand and shifted her eyes from the key to Serefina's face before she took the small metal and held it like the most precious thing that she possessed.

"You are really helpless." Serefina sneered and was about to leave Raine alone when she turned around and added. "Think carefully before you decide on something. Just for your information; maybe you are his mate, but a beast is still a beast."

After saying that, Serefina strode away from there and disappeared as she turned at the other corner of the hallway. 

The small metal in her palm was so cold, as if announcing its existence, asking her to use it.

Yet, before Raine could open the door with it, Calleb's voice startled her and made her almost drop the metal key.

"There you are!" Calleb exclaimed in relief, he rushed over toward Raine in long strides. "You almost gave Belinda a heart attack when she couldn't find you inside your room."

Belinda and Raphael followed behind Calleb, and when the middle aged witch saw that Raine was fine, she pulled her into a tight, warm hug.

"I thought something bad had happened to you." Belinda whined. 

"You are over thinking things." Calleb chastised her. "I told you she is still inside the house."

"I am fine." Raine patted Belinda's back as she released herself from her. "But, can I see Torak now?"

Upon hearing Raine's question the atmosphere suddenly turned tense as they looked at each other, unsure of what to say at her request.

Finally it was Raphael, who spoke to Raine in an apologetic tone. "I am sorry Raine, but I think you can't see him until his condition is stable again."

Raphael thought Raine would insist on seeing the beast, but to everyone's surprise, she agreed.

"Alright." Raine said as she put the key inside the back pockets of her pants quietly.