The Love of a Lycan

Raine didn't expect she would meet Adair inside the kitchen and much to her chagrin, aside from her, there were another two women beside her.

In an instant the situation turned awkward.

"Hm. Is there something that I can help here with?" Raine cleared her throat and asked, noticing the two women staring at her timidly.

"Is that really her, the Alpha's rumored mate that couldn't talk?" Instead of answering Raine's question, Adair sneered at her and turned the atmosphere even more uncomfortable.

"Adair." A woman on her left tugged her sleeve, warning her about her behavior.

"What?" Adair looked at her friend sullenly. "Am I wrong?"

"She is our Luna." Another woman whispered to her as she looked at Raine worriedly.

They weren't scared of Raine, but they definitely didn't want to test the Alpha's patience by bullying his Mate. They had seen it with their own eyes how the Alpha doted on her so much.

Raine frowned when she received Adair's confrontation. The guilty feeling that she felt earlier because she had behaved rudely and childishly toward Adair, suddenly vanished into thin air.

"I am." Raine said as she held Adair's intense glare. "Do you have a problem with that?"

Raine wasn't really sure where she got this attitude and why she acted this way, but the only thing that she knew for certain was; Adair's very existence irritated her, especially now when she openly showed her dislike toward Raine without any scrupulous.

"But you talk," Adair sneered. "Too much now," she added unhurriedly.

The two women beside Adair started to nudge her frantically, warning her to not go overbroad with her attitude.

They knew the Alpha was far more patient when he faced Adair, because it was the Alpha himself who had nurtured Adair since she lost her parents in a rouge and vampire attack, yet it didn't mean the Alpha had ever showed his interest toward her.

Meanwhile Raine, who had been facing constant mood swings and would even act out of her habit lately, began to feel more irritated when Adair started to provoke her.

"Both of you can go now." Raine sensed the uncomfortable feelings of the two women and she didn't want to implicate them if this conversation did turn into something else.

Well, Raine had faced the devil, the shadow warrior, almost died more than twice, was bitten by the beast, she had even killed a hunter, not to mention all the dreadful experiences that she had gone through before she met Torak, thus... a jealous werewolf girl wouldn't be able to intimidate her, not in her current mood at least.

The two women shifted their gaze between Raine and Adair, back and forth, still not knowing what to do.

"Don't make me to say it for the third time. Get out from here!" This time Raine's voice sounded more stern, which startled both women.

If Raine always failed to intimidate Torak as he was at a whole another level, at least this time she got it right and managed to scare those women away.

Now Raine realized, practicing with her mate indeed gained a satisfying result in the end.

"What do you want to say now?" Raine asked after only the two of them were left, looking straight at Adair when she spoke. "I can feel your dislike toward me."

Upon hearing Raine's statement, Adair scoffed in revulsion. "I am glad you know it." She crossed her arms in front of her chest defiantly. "Just because you are his mate, you think you can do whatever you want in this pack."

"Can't I?" Raine asked innocently. "I am his mate and the Luna of this pack."

"Do you think you can convince everyone else to give their respect for you just because you are their Luna?" Adair took a step closer. She was slightly taller than Raine, but at this point, Raine didn't even budge while she continued listening to her hateful words. "Respect is something that you earn, not something that Torak could give you and you haven't earned mine."

After saying that, Adair smirked devilishly and looked at Raine from head to toe in disgust.

On the other hand, Raine was unfazed as she spoke in a very calm tone. Her expression was placid.

"Your respect?" Raine reiterated. "Don't overestimate yourself, because I don't need it."

And before Adair could cut Raine from her sentences, she continued to talk.

"I will earn the pack members' respect in one way or the other, but you…" Raine mimicked the way Adair looked at her. "You will never become Torak's mate or the Luna of this pack even if you work you're a** off. So, my word of advice is, know where are you standing before I put you in your place."

"Are you threatening me?" Adair narrowed her eyes dangerously.

"No." Raine shook her head. "This is a warning." A beautiful smile blossomed on her lips when she finished her sentence.

"Don't you know that the Alpha like me the most? I am his baby girl. He said it himself." Adair blurted out.

Adair lost her parents since she was only six years old and since then Torak would attend to her and was very patient when he had to deal with her, but since she had grown up, the Alpha gradually increased the distance between them and this left Adair puzzled.

At first, she thought the Alpha treated her that way because of Jenedieth, but when she heard Jenedieth was exiled as result of her attempt to hurt Torak's mate, Adair didn't believe that.

Torak didn't suppose to have a mate because of the curse from the moon goddess, therefore, she really wanted to see Raine by herself.

On the other hand, there was a slight change of emotion in Raine's eyes when she heard that, but she composed herself before Adair could notice it.

"Oh, really? Baby girl huh?" Raine scoffed, she tried to be less sarcastic to cover her annoyance. Whether Adair was telling the truth or not, she would ask Torak about this herself.

How could he call someone else as his baby girl?!