The Love of a Lycan

The Lycan who was standing in front of the bed immediately lifted it up easily and held it upside down before leaning it against the wall.

Under the bed, everyone could see a square board wood that didn't quite match up with the other wood around it and there was a key hole in the middle of it.

Raine stepped forward with Torak walking close behind her, as he needed to act fast, in case something unpleasant happened.

Raine squatted down to touch the key hole with her slender fingers before she lifted her head and looked at Jade, the three years old child was crying silently in the arms of one of the Lycanthropes.

"There is a key around his ankle." Raine pointed her finger at Jade's left ankle.

Once she said that, Clarice went berserk as she shifted into her brown wolf with a thin golden strip that painted her body from her back until her snout.

The beast's eyes turned black as she snarled at the person who was holding her son. She tried to snatch away her son, but of course it wouldn't be an easy job to do so because the other Lycans had been ready and also shifted into their beast form.

Torak pulled Raine behind his back as his canines elongated. He was ready to tear the female wolf into shreds if she dared enough to touch his mate.

However, the only thing that interested the female wolf was her child. She tried and failed, tried and failed to get her son back until one of the beasts pounced on her and bit down her neck.

In the matter of a few seconds, the female wolf let out an agonized howl before she fell on the ground with blood pooling around her.

Raine hid her face and shut her eyes tightly. She didn't understand why the woman chose to defy Torak's orders and turned aggressive when all Raine wanted was the key that was attached to her son's ankle.

Raine didn't even think of hurting the mother or the child.

"Stop it Torak… make them stop…" Raine whimpered. The gurgling sound that was heard from Clarice's throat scared her greatly as her body started to tremble.

Torak raised his hand to stop the beast's assault on the female wolf that was still putting up a fight though she was badly injured.

While the fight was happening, the boy was brought out of the room and the other Lycan returned with the key that Raine had mentioned before while Jade was kept locked in the other room.

Even so, Raine could still hear his cries.

The injured female Lycan tried to stand to snatch the key away from Raine's hand, but failed as she kept falling to the ground. Losing a lot of blood and energy in the process.

Not only that, the female Lycan was trying to put more effort to stop Raine, yet all she could do was only wail in pain.

"Don't!" She hissed as she turned into her human form. The bite on her neck had slowly healed but, the blood that she lost couldn't be replenished so fast.

The Lycan gave the key to Raine, slightly nodded his head out of courtesy.

Yet, it was Torak who received the key and scrutinized the small metal object in his hand. "Back away my love." He said.

He didn't know why Clarice was so adamant on stopping them from opening the door, but given her agitated state now, they wouldn't be able to talk to her right now.

On the other hand, Calleb walked toward Raine and pulled her back, away from the secret door. And just like Torak's over protectiveness, Calleb also hid his Luna behind his back and only allowed her to peek from behind his broad shoulders.

Actually Raine thought there was nothing dangerous behind the secret door, but she was also not so sure because she only saw a dark tunnel behind it.

Her vision just ended there, because Raine saw it from the child's perception.

"Torak…" Raine called out his name from behind Calleb's back, she couldn't help but worry for her mate. "Be careful." She said, her face showed her discomfort.

Torak just gave her a faint smile without saying anything.

However, that sort of act left the other Lycanthropes befuddled. They had never seen their Alpha's gaze turning so tender and him smiling so harmlessly like that.

Did they see correctly?

Torak ignored the strange gazes on him as he turned around and placed the key in the key hole and twisted it until a faint sound could be heard from it.

He lifted it open and saw the stairs that went all the way down to the ground and apparently beneath it was a dark tunnel.

On the flipside, Clarice kept shouting at them to back away from the secret tunnel.

Torak straightened his back as he walked toward Clarice, in the end, the woman's voice irritated him. "Tell me why can't I go down there?" He asked in a low dangerous tone.

"No. I can't tell you…" She shook her head and now the wound on her neck had been closed completely. "I can't tell you… but, you can't go there Alpha… don't go there…" She wept.

Torak disliked this kind of half reasons and just like how the curiosity worked, the longer Clarice tried to stop him from going down the tunnel while not giving him a specific answer, the more he wanted to go there to see it for himself what was the thing that the woman was so scared of.

Torak ignored Clarice's warning and gestured to four of the Lycans to follow him inside the tunnel.

"Torak…" Raine stepped forward from behind Calleb's back, she clutched onto Torak's shirt, unwilling to let him go.

For some reason Clarice's warning slightly bothered her.

"I will come back soon." Torak caressed her cheek and smoothed her wrinkled eyebrows. "Stay here with Calleb, okay?"

"I don't want you to go…" Raine glanced at the empty tunnel, it looked the same from what she had seen, but she had a bad feeling about it.

"I will be alright." Torak kissed Raine's forehead and together with the other four Lycans, he went into the dark tunnel.