The Love of a Lycan

Raphael was staring at Hope and Raine, who were chatting animatedly while Torak and Kace were sitting on the side, mesmerized at how easily these two were interacting with each other.

On the other hand, Kace and Torak couldn't be considered as brothers who were finally warmed upto each other, because if they didn't start an argumentation, they would just ignore each other's presence.

However, with their mates having a good relationship, it lessened the tension between them.

Tomorrow, they would go to the other realm, they would go to meet Jedrek and it could also mean a family reunion for the Donovans.

Since Serefina had gone ahead, it was predictable that they would leave two days after the witch.

"I am so excited to go!" Hope, who was always the cheerful one, squealed in delight and Raine giggled while resting her head on Torak's shoulder. "Aren't you excited too?" Hope asked Kace and elbowed him.

Kace grimaced, but not because of the pain on his ribcage, but because he was not looking forward to meet his older brother.

"Not really," he grumbled in annoyance. "If I could I will be more than glad to stay with the centaurs."

"The centaurs and my people will be heading to the castle once Serefina successfully convinced them to give back the centaurs' land to them." Torak chimed in.

"You don't need to remind me of that again!" Kace was irked by Torak's words.

And the second Donovan only shrugged his shoulders while pulling his mate closer to kiss her temple. "Just in case you forget."

"All right, you don't need to be sullen the whole day." Hope slapped his thigh. "If you are not happy to see your older brother, at least you can be happy for me because I am going to meet with the other guardian angel."

Kace let out a grunt and growled when he stood up and was mumbling something while walking toward the kitchen followed by the sound of Hope and Raine's giggles.

Raphael stared at the way Hope and Kace or Raine and Torak interacting, somehow, he started to wonder, howhe would be interacting with his other half when he finally met his mate.

Since he smelled the scent that had kept his beast anxious, Raphael was more eager to know when this woman named Lana would come. Even the name sounded beautiful in his ears and he liked to repeat it again and again in his head, more times than he could remember.

"Aren't you bothered by the smell of this trash?"

Raphael heard Kace's voice from the kitchen, it seemed like the youngest Donovan wanted to vent out his frustration and the trash bin got targeted for this.

"No. However, it is not strange since rogues smell dominates this house." Came Calleb's response.

Raphael knew what would come next, so he headed toward the kitchen reluctantly and watched as the two lycans staring daggers at each other.

"Calleb, come here, I need you to help me with something." Raphael beckoned Calleb to follow him and when he still didn't move, Raphael stepped in to drag him out of the kitchen, leaving Kace with the black plastic bag.

"Didn't Torak told you not to mess with him?" Raphael crossed his arms and looked at the Gamma, who was kicking the pebbles beneath his feet sullenly, when they were in the backyard.

"I know," Calleb mumbled. "I am just saying the truth. His scent is awful," he scrunched his nose.

"No matter what, he is still our Alpha's younger brother, at least respect that," Raphael said. "Understood?"

Raphael watched Calleb heaving a heavy sigh and raised his head. "Understood," he said. "Next time I will try not to think of that word."

This time, Raphael was the one to heave a heavy breath. "All right… next time…" he didn't finish his sentence when he smelled the same scent that had kept his beast on the edge of his mind, only it got stronger now.

Raphael let out a deep growl that startled Calleb.

"What? I said I understood." Calleb thought Raphael was growling at him, thus he raised both of his hands, but the Beta turned on his heel and rushed toward the house. "Hei! Wait! What happened?" thinking there was something bad happened, Calleb followed him immediately.

On the other hand, Raphael barely managed to hold back his beast's anxiety. He couldn't even tell whether he was excited or anxious, all he wanted and needed now, was to find the source of this intoxicating scent.

Raphael walked past Torak in hurry, he ignored the questioning look that the Alpha giving him or the fact that Calleb was calling his name continuously.

"What happened?" Torak asked Calleb.

Seeing everything was fine inside the room, Calleb was confused. "Huh?" he blinked his eyes. "I thought something happened here…"

But, then they heard another growl from Raphael from the front door. From the sound of it, it was not something good.

"Stay here," Torak said to Raine and Hope.

Meanwhile, on the porch of the house, Raphael couldn't hold back his anger when the first thing that came in to his sight was the last thing he thought might happen.

Raphael swore, the girl was his mate. However, she was hugging another man and crying on his chest. In his fury, he didn't even think straight before he leapt forward, shifting mid-air and when he finally landed on the ground, he was on all fours.

Out of instinct, sensing something wrong with way the beast that bolted toward him, Kace shoved Lana and shifted into his white beast just in time when the other beast pounced on him.

Following these were ear-splitting sounds of cracking bones and snarls when the two beast started to dig their sharp claws and talons into each other.

"What?!" Calleb was flabbergasted when he saw the two beasts who were trying to kill each other, moreover, it was Raphael and Kace.

On the other hand, Torak who noticed this immediately turned into his white beast, and roared viciously as he leapt into the battle to stop them.