The Love of a Lycan

Torak opened the tent and walked out to get some fresh air. He nodded to the two guards who were stationed in front of his tent. They would stay just outside of their tent to keep his mate safe.

After the so called line of reasoning with Kace, Torak had another argumentation with Serefina, who would go the other realm and meet Jedrek.

She looked reluctant, but couldn't turn down Torak's suggestion eventually. The witch seemed in need of a solid reason to see her ex lover. Which Torak understood and gave it to her.

In the end, what Torak said was true. Serefina would have to meet Jedrek eventually and it would be best if she went there herself, while Torak would take care of the matter here before they could march over there.

All in all, the more Serefina pushed back her decision to meet Jedrek, the more it would prolong the discomfort and uneasiness she might feel. It would be better to put an end right there to it and then, face her own worries rather than drag the matter longer.

Serefina and Jedrek needed a lot of time to talk.

And just like what Serefina always said to Raine; in their current predicament, there was no time for her to wait until she was ready, because no one would ever be ready to face their own fear.

Torak was rewarded with a sharp dagger like look from Serefina when he mentioned that.

"Are you a lycan?" A childlike voice called out beside Torak.

He felt someone tugging his trousers and the Alpha lowered his gaze to meet a little girl's eyes, who would be around the age of eight staring at Torak with her bright big eyes.

"Yes," Torak answered her.

"Are you Kace's big brother?" she asked again.

"Yes," Torak replied and sat down on the grass, watching the campsite before his eyes. "What are you doing following me?" He had felt her presence since he left the tent.

"I just want to know." Bree sat down beside Torak while hugging her cat.

"What is your name?"

"Bree." Bree looked at Torak and could see the similarities between Kace and him. "They said you will take Kace away."

Torak raised his brows, caught off guard by her question. "I will." He curtly answered after a short moment of pause

Upon hearing that answer, a flash of sudden shock could be seen those big bright eyes as they widened, but then they turned gloomy in the next moment.

"You don't like it if I take him with me?" Torak looked at the little girl, who was caressing her cat.

Bree shook her head. "I like him. He and Hope are like a pair of caring older brother and sister for me."

"Where are your parents?"

"They were dead due to a Troll attack in our house." Bree raised her head and her eyes turned bright when she talked again. "Kace fought with the troll and killed it."

"Hm," Torak hummed. "He is brave."

"Yes… and then they said he shifted into a white lycan and…"

Torak spent the next few hours, listening to Bree's story about how gallant his younger brother when he fought with the troll to how kind was Kace when he caught a cat forher.

His brother hunted a cat for this little girl? Torak really wanted to laugh, as he knew Kace wasn't an animal lover, but then he remembered he gave a bunny to Raine, even though he didn't like it.

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"If you don't want to go, you can stay here. Calleb will stay with you," Torak caressed Raine's hair while looking at the uneasiness flashed in Raine's eyes under the scorching sun.

They would go back to mystic river village after they buried the bones of the children, who had been kidnapped from the villages, to sacrifice to the devil. Also the body of the priestess. At least, this was the last thing they could do for them.

"No," Raine refused. "I will go with you."

"Actually, you don't need to see it, we will just bring the remains of the victims and bury them. After that, we can go. With these many people helping us, I am sure this will be finished before the sun goes down." Torak reassured Raine. "You can stay here with Calleb and Jack."

Torak needed to go inside to see with his own eyes what the demons, who followed Kace had done, maybe there was something he could find out.

"Hope will go inside the cave?" Raine asked. She watched as Hope and Kace were talking not too far from them, among the shifters, centaurs, the hunters and other villagers who were preparing to enter the cave.

"She needs to go inside because only she was aware of the place, where the priestess actually is," Torak explained to Raine.

"I want to go too." Honestly, Raine didn't really want to go, but she had this feeling again. The feeling that urged her to do something that even she couldn't understand why.

"The scene inside can be very gruesome for you to handle," Torak spoke with concern.

"Take her inside." Serefina came along with her usual boring expression, and stared at Raine. "Why do you want to go inside? It's not like Torak would let you pick up those children's bones and bury them yourself." And here she was, back with her snarky comments.

Raine was used to the way Serefina talked to her, thus she just shrugged off her mocking tone, but Torak narrowed his eyes at the witch dangerously.

"I feel like I need to go inside," Raine said nervously, as she glanced at the cave. "And I don't know why…"

Serefina nodded. "Good. Follow your instinct. Every guardian angel awaken their power differently, maybe this is your call."

Raine glanced at the cave again and then at Hope, who smiled at her while waving her hand.

"I thought you are already on your way to the Kingdom." Torak looked at Serefina.

"I will, after this," Serefina mumbled, she still appeared reluctant to leave. But, when she was at the receiving end of Torak's intense gaze, the witch glared back at him. "Once I know what's bothering Raine, I will go to see Jedrek."

"Why does Serefina has to go there alone?" Raine asked.

"Because she has several complicated things to fix," Torak answered.