The Love of a Lycan

"What exactly was your deal with the moon goddess, Serefina?" Torak leaned over as he asked the witch.

"It is a deal between me and her, so you don't have to know about it." Serefina said sternly and rested both of her elbows on the arm rests on either side, before she intertwined her fingers together. "If you don't believe what I am saying, go ahead and bring her over to your territory, if she gets a relapse because her spirit couldn't take it, I don't know whether she will be able to recover for a second time or not."

It was a warning, a blatant threat, but Torak could see the truth in Serefina's words and the Alpha was upset because he didn't have a choice except to follow the witch's advise, again.

Seeing her mate who was almost on the verge of exploding in anger, Raine put her hand on his clenching fist as she smiled at him. "Let's go to our home in the Fulbright city, I still have classes to attend."

Torak stared intently at his mate as he tried to compose himself before he nodded and spoke curtly. "Alright."

Torak reached out his hand to gather a stray lock of Raine's hair that nearly fell into her bowl of soup and swept it behind her ear while Raine kept eating happily.

His blue eyes were glued to the spot where his mark started to form on Raine's neck, the bruises began to fade as a celtic tattoo like carving of intricate knots and complex curves started to appear on the surface of her skin, it had not yet formed into any shape particularly, but from the look of it, it would form into something beautiful.

Absentmindedly, Torak caressed the surface of his mark with his thumb and that startled Raine a bit. "Is it still painful?" He asked as he withdrew his hand from the mark.

"No… it's just…" Raine stuttered as she didn't know how to describe the feeling when Torak touched the mark.

She felt like her stomach was knotted with a strange sensation and this made her face flush brightly.

Torak tilted his head as he watched his mate's face turn scarlet as she tried to pretend that she felt nothing.

Torak had heard one or two things about mark previously, one of it was; the spot where the mark appeared would be more sensitive to the touch especially when it was your mate who touched you.

Apparently that was true.

Torak was enjoying listening to the voices Raine making inside her head, forgetting that Torak could hear them as well.

[Alpha…] Suddenly Calleb mind- linked Torak that made the latter to turn his head toward him with a frown. [Don't you want to teach Luna how to mask her thoughts?]

The Gamma asked helplessly as his face also turned red.

This question earned him a vicious glare from Torak that automatically prompted Calleb to shut the mind- link.

Calleb shouldn't need to ask and just cut it out, otherwise he would get trouble from listening something that he shouldn't.

"Before we go to the Fulbright City, I want to take you to the oriole city first." Torak announced. "I assume she will be fine for two or three days, right?" He eyed Serefina as he asked.

"Three days is fine." Serefina replied without lifting her head from the dessert that she was eating.

"I want you to inform Dmitri that I want to see him two days from now at the border of our territory." Torak informed Calleb. "I want to hear what's his explanation for their impertinent attitude."

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Raine was looking at her reflection on the surface of the mirror inside the bathroom, tilting her head so she could get a better view of her neck.

The area where Torak had bitten her was still swollen, the blue and red bruises had faded, leaving a silver line of intricate lines and curves now looking just like a tattoo, but with silver ink.

Raine didn't know how to describe it, she was never fond of tattoos and had never thought to have one if she could, yet she was smitten by this mark on her neck.

So, this was how the mark would look like? Silver color, just like Torak's beast fur color.

She had spent almost thirty minutes, thinking about how she loved the mark on her neck, in a daze without realizing that a certain someone had been listening to her inner thoughts shamelessly.

Torak was leaning his body against the wall right beside the bathroom door, so Raine wouldn't realize that he had been there listening to her thoughts for some time.

And when Raine finished brushing her teeth and took one last glance at her mark, she walked out of the bathroom only to be hugged by Torak.

Apparently Torak was in good mood and even almost returned to his old self as he buried his nose in the crook of Raine's neck, inhaling his mate intoxicating scent.

"How long have you been standing there?" Raine found herself being carried in a princess style by Torak before he put her on their bed gently.

"Since you felt that the mark is so cool until you envisioned yourself as a white Lycan too." Torak witnessed his mate's eyes widen in shock, but he didn't stop as he added. "And the thought in between was kind of interesting too… hmm, what is it? Do you really want to bite me too? And leave your own mark?"

"Torak!!!" Raine shrieked in horror.

She forgot! Totally forgot that Torak could hear her inner thoughts.

And then, in the next second, Raine recalled everything that she had been thinking when she was in the bathroom.

But, this was the same thing like she was humiliating herself twice, by recalling all of those embarrassing thoughts, yet on the other hand, how she could stop it?

Was there anyone who didn't think at all??

Raine rolled her body as she wrapped herself like a bundle with a blanket.

Torak chuckled when he watched how bashful his mate became and then reached out to pull the blanket from her head, so while Raine's body was covered with the blanket, it was only her head that was poking out of it, glaring at him.

Ignoring his mate's angry eyes, Torak leaned over and captured her lips as he murmured. "Hm… I like it too."