The Love of a Lycan

When the sun just appeared in the horizon, Torak had driven the car out of their private garage. They started so early in the morning.

Beside the Alpha, Raine wrapped her body with her sweater tightly, she blew her hands because it was so cold outside, thus Torak closed all the windows before turning on the heater for her.

"Still feeling cold?" Torak asked, he reached Raine's hand and grabbed her slightly cold hand.

"Better now." Raine smiled.

Both of them indulged themselves in this comfortable silence when Torak drove the car through the highway.

They were accompanied with Calleb and Jack, but both of them were in a different car while Raphael didn't follow them, he had to handle some important matters in the company, especially since Belphegor had made his move by gathering people to oppose Torak.

Their situation now was quite tricky, as they were attacked from both sides, the company and the pack, the human and the supernatural creatures.

Raine was slightly worried about how Torak could handle this crisis, but because the latter seemed so collected and didn't show any nervousness or anxiety, she felt relaxed again.

"My love." Torak squeezed her hand lightly to get her attention.

"Yea?" Raine turned her body and faced Torak beside her. His side profile looked so handsome with his sculptured jaw line. Raine thought, she could spend the rest of the day just by looking at him without even getting bored.

"I just want to tell you beforehand." Torak circled his thumb on her palm in soothing motions. "The situation later will be gruesome."

Raine held her breath when she heard that. Actually, Torak had told her about his plans the night before, yet when he reminded her again, she was quite nervous, afraid that she couldn't handle it.

There would be bloodshed later and it was something that couldn't be avoided.

This was how Torak ruled his empire. He was the ruthless Alpha. Raine knew it. She accepted him, but she was not yet ready to see it firsthand.

"I know…" Raine said in a low voice.

"You can stay inside the car if you can't take it." Torak uttered in consideration.

"Okay." Raine nodded.

And then the rest of the journey was filled with silence as they were busy with their own thoughts.

When the sun hit high in the horizon, they arrived in an abandoned city. Torak pulled over under the shadow of a two storey building.

The car behind them also stopped only a few meters away from Torak's, it was Calleb and Jack. Both of them got out of the car at the same time with similar serious expressions etched on their faces.

There were no traces of Calleb's mischievous self. For some reason, Raine found Calleb scary when he was this serious as she was only used to see his carefree behavior.

"Stay inside the car." Torak said curtly before he unbuckled his seatbelt and walked out of the car.

Raine didn't need to be told twice as she sat there obediently. She took in her surroundings and realized there were no humans, this was indeed an abandoned city with many buildings that were on the verge collapsing.

Why do they have to stop here?

Torak stood right outside of the car, leaning his tall body against the side of it as Calleb and Jack approached him.

Raine couldn't hear what they were conversing about, but whatever it was, it must be something important as she could see Calleb furrowing his brows as he listened to his Alpha intently.

Raine was staring at the three people outside the car, trying to figure out what they were discussing when her concentration was disturbed by a rustling sound around her.

At first, Raine thought it was just a sound of some stray cats or dogs, however, the moment she tilted her head and looked at the window of her side, her eyes met witha pair of big red eyes of a creature, staring back at her.

Raine shrieked out of surprise, but then she heard Torak's soothing voice in her head.

[Fear not, my love.] Torak said through mind link. [They are Lycans from our pack.]

'They are?'

Only then, did Riane realize that there were not only one, but ten… twenty… no, there seemed to be more than a hundred of Lycans, slowly crawling out of the shadows, from behind the building, from every alley of the streets around, from the roof of the abandoned houses, from everywhere… literally!

Raine could feel her hands started trembling.

Her mind flew to the memory when she was in the village of angels, when she was in the vast land and the ground was covered with snow and everything was shimmering under the faint glow of the afternoon sun.

It was the same situation, only without the snow.

Raine bit her lips when all the Lycans finally gathered around, some of them were in their human form and some of them had shifted into their beast.

Though Torak's beast was way bigger than them, but to see hundreds of Lycanthropes at the same time, returned the fear that Raine felt when Ramez, the leader of the shadow guards, wanted to hand her over to a Lycanthrope.

To someone named Lyrus.

At that time, Raine had told them that she was Torak's mate, but no one believed her. Even Lyrus had asked someone to ask Torak about it.

However, from what she heard from Torak, he didn't receive any news about Raine. No one ever told him about his mate or there was someone who claimed as his mate.

Because if it was the case, he would have remembered it, after all, 'mate' for the Donovan brothers was something very sensitive.

Raine couldn't help it, but think about this matter again.

Why didn't Lyrus tell Torak anything about her at that time? Truth, Torak wouldn't recognize her as his mate because they had not yet met, but at least, he could let him see her, right?

Torak said it himself that he would have come to see her if someone told him about his mate.

While Raine was thinking about that, as if walking straight out of her mind, the person that she had seen when she traveled back to the past, appeared in front of Torak, bowing his head deeply to his Alpha.