The Love of a Lycan

"What happened?!"

From the other side of the house, before Serefina and Belinda could trudge over to the corridor, where the door to the underground was located, they heard Raphael and Calleb approaching them hastily.

From the furrow between their brows, Serefina knew that they must feel something off about this situation, because the roar just now from the underground was exceptionally loud, even in this thunderstorm.

"The spell was broken." Serefina said grimly. The four of them didn't stop for a second as they headed toward the underground.

"And Raine is missing." Belinda's words were akin to a bomb on both Calleb and Raphael.

"What!?" Raphael stopped walking and grabbed Belinda's arm to stop her as well. "Tell me what happened? How could she possibly disappear?!" He asked impatiently.

"Stop yelling at her!" Serefina snapped at Raphael. "She must be in Torak's cell."

Raphael composed himself and then strode ahead everyone toward the underground door.

To their surprise, the door to the underground base was opened and this reinforced their suspicion that they were right about Raine going to Torak's cell. But, how could she find the key of that door?

The key was hidden in a place that wasn't easy to find. But, how could Raine found it easily?

However, Raphael didn't have time to think about it, he could look into that matter later because the moment he pushed open the door a strong smell of blood assaulted his nose.

Even Serefina and Belinda, who didn't have a keen sense of smell, scrunched their noses and furrowed their brows as they rushed down the stairs.

As soon as Torak's cell came into their view, their eyes bulged out of their sockets at the horrible and horrendous scene before their eyes.

Belinda gasped loudly and covered her mouth to stifle her scream, while Serefina stood rooted to the ground with a pale face.

It was Raphael and Calleb, who stepped forward and approached their Alpha.

Sitting on the floor was Torak, with his broad back facing the opened cell door as he cradled Raine in his strong arms.

From the look of his back alone, Raphael could feel the rage that exuded from his human form.

Torak's white shirt was tattered and his pants were torn but he was sitting still like a piece of wood as his right hand was pressing his palm at the wound on Raine's neck.

Blood was oozing out from his fingers, dripping on to the floor beneath them, sending a metallic smell whirling in the air.

While Raine's face couldn't be seen as her hair covered most of her face and Torak held her so close to his chest, even so Raphael still could see a faint undulating movement from her small shoulders.

"Torak…" Raphael called out his name gingerly. "We need to treat her wound…"

Regardless, the fact there were dozens of questions roaming around Raphael's head about how Torak could shift back to his human form and how Raine got hurt this badly, Raphael need to hold back all of that for the time being, even Calleb didn't dare to utter a single word since they smelled the strong bloody scent.

Torak didn't move. He didn't answer Raphael's suggestion either. He stayed like that as if nothing in this world could bother him.

"Torak, let her go… we need to take care of her wound." Raphael took one more step closer toward Torak, his senses heightened as the tension in the atmosphere roused to point that it could drive anyone crazy.

Aside from the rustling sound that Raphael made when he moved and the thunderous rain out there, the underground base was engulfed in an eerie silence that forced people present to hold their breaths.

Torak didn't budge.

Raphael stretched out his hand to shake Torak's shoulder in order to gain his attention, as it seemed that the latter didn't listen to what he said. His mind was elsewhere.

Yet, when Raphael's finger was merely an inch from Torak, the Alpha's voice boomed inside the cell, sending shivers down Raphael and Calleb's spines.

Painful and suffocated feelings spread to every follicle of their skin, forcing them to kneel before the Supreme Alpha, showing him their submission.

"I TOLD YOU NOT TO BRING HER HERE!" Torak's voice boomed with anger and wrath. He had given them a very clear order, but how daring of them not to obey his direct command?!

With a loud thud, both Raphael and Calleb's head hit the ground with their hands sprawled either side of their heads. It was a gesture of complete submission.

Even Belinda was forced to kneel and lower her head, out of fear of Torak's wrath. The Alpha was infamous for his ruthlessness and his terrifying ways to deal with those who disobeyed his orders.

The air had morphed into fear, and the more they breathed it, the more scared they were, it was like a slow toxin that killed them slowly.

It was only Serefina, who could still stand unfazed in her spot.

After her shock when she witnessed how Torak had turned into his human form and Raine was injured in place of it, a conclusion started to form in her head about this whole situation.

The witch seemed to got a rough idea over how they would have ended up in this situation.

And in the next second, Serefina strolled past the cell door and stood in front of Torak, before she squatted down to have a closer look atRaine.

Yet, before she could check on the girl's condition, she found her neck being squeezed tightly in a firm grip.

"If you kill me, she will die." Though it was hard to talk, Serefina pushed her last words out of her lips before the air left her lungs fully.

The witch glanced provocatively at Raine.

Because Torak removed his pressure on Raine's neck, the opened wound started to disgorge more and more blood until it pooled onto the floor.

Raine's blood flowed out like a broken dam, endless without any sign to stop.

Within three seconds after Serefina threw her warning, she had almost lost her consciousness, but Raine's condition was getting worse as her heartbeat was hard to hear.