The Love of a Lycan

Slowly, Raine opened her eyes, she stared at Torak guiltily as she spoke timidly. "How do you know that I wasn't asleep?"

Torak flicked her head lightly. "You are too loud." He refered to Raine's internal argumentation.

"Did you hear all of that?" Raine's eyes widened in disbelief, she thought she was successful in masking her thoughts.

"No, I didn't hear a single word." Torak said matter of factly. "You masked it quite well, but there was this buzzing sound from it, like a broken radio."

Torak couldn't hear a single word for real, but the buzzing sound that he heard from her was a giveaway that Raine was actually not asleep.

She was still learning how to mask her thoughts after all, so it was understandable if she hadn't perfected it yet.

"What is bothering you my love?" Torak laid next to her. His arm served as Raine's pillow while his other arm smoothened the crease between her eyebrows.

"I saw a girl…" Raine stared at Torak, trying to arrange her words.

"A girl?" Torak asked with a frown between his brows, he didn't remember Raine meeting a girl other than Adair. "Where?"

"In my vision…" Raine decided to come clean with Torak.

"You have seen what will happen in the future?" Though it felt peculiar to say something like this, Torak still listened attentively to what Raine wanted to say.

"Yes…" Raine bit her lip nervously.

"Just like how you saw it was Adair who had ruined your flowers?" Torak asked for confirmation.

"Am I strange…?" Raine lifted her gaze to look at Torak.

Torak laughed at her question. "Something like that happens in our world, my love. You are not strange, you are gifted." He tucked her hair behind her ears. "My precious gift."

Raine felt a bit relaxed when she heard that and then she spent almost thirty minutes to explain to Torak about what she had seen when they were inside the car, about the girl, the flowers and the gloomy sky.

"What do you think about that?" Raine asked Torak when she ended her story.

Torak stayed quiet for some time before he spoke softly. "Honestly, I don't know what to say for now." He pulled the blanket to cover both of them. "I have done my research and looked into the history of the guardian angel, who can control the time, but there's not much that I can find."

"I think you got more information than I did when you traveled back to the past." Torak added.

"I just know that the guardian angel kept her power inside the pure blooded witch's grimoire, because she wanted to see her lover once again." Raine contemplated.

Torak had heard this, but only now did a thought flash in his mind. "If you are the guardian angel from the past, who was looking for your lover, then didn't it mean that I am the one who you are looking for?" He teased her.

Raine chuckled upon hearing his statement. "Probably." She teased him back as she kissed his chin.

"What do you mean by probably?" Torak raised his eyebrows. "There was no other guardian angel who could control the time before you."

"So, you assumed that we have been mated since millions of years ago?" Raine mimicked Torak's expression.

"Why? You don't like this conjecture?" The Alpha pinched his mate's tender cheeks.

"If that's the case, I hope we will never be separated ever again." Raine nuzzled against Torak's chest, inhaling his scent that could calm her down.

"I know that you can't live without me." Torak smugly said which earned a bite from Raine on his chest. "You have developed a bad habit." He pinched her waist, forcing her to stop biting him.

"I think I am infected by your habit through the mark." Raine retorted.

And then the sound of the laughter from both of them echoed through the walls of the bed room. "Let's figure this out one step at time. We still have so much time for this." Torak suggested after their laughter died down.

"Don't you feel sleepy?" Torak brushed his finger lightly on Raine's red cheeks, she laughed for so long that her face had turned scarlet.

"I don't." Raine felt better after she talked with Torak. "Why don't we talk about what exactly happened with me the night before?" She suggested.

"You fell into heat." His fingers on her cheeks came to a halt as he stared at Raine.

"So, what is this heat? I felt so awful…" Raine complained. "I felt like I was thrown into pit of fire. My whole body burned."

"It happens when the bonding has not yet completed after the marking." Torak explained. "You will be in heat at random times."

"Random times?" Raine frowned. That meant, she would go through something like that again and again? And that would not be the last time she would face that.

The thought of it alone made Raine grimace. She didn't want to endure something like that again. 

"Torak, when I was in heat…" Raine bit her lip, hesitation apparent in her eyes, yet she continued anyway. "… I felt better when you touched me, I think you know that… but, why…?" She didn't finish her line of question, but Torak knew it regardless.

His eyes flashed with a complicated feeling. "I know."

And then silence.

Raine was waiting for Torak next explanation, but all he said was 'I know'.

"And then?" Raine prodded.

"It was only temporary, because all you wanted is not my touch." Torak narrowed his eyes, but an idea flashed in his mind as he grinned mischievously. "You will feel like that until the bonding is completed."

"So, why don't we complete the bonding?" Raine was puzzled, usually Torak would do everything for her to not feel any pain, but why did he look hesitant now? If she could be freed from that pain, she was more than willing to complete the bonding. "How can we complete the bonding?"

Torak had been waiting for this question. "Open your mind, I will show you."

His blue eyes stared intently at Raine's black ones, and they turned bright asTorak watched red hue cover his mate skin until her cute ears flushed bright red.

"Torak!" Raine was beyond mortified as she covered her face inside the blanket while Torak was laughing boisterously.