The Love of a Lycan

Kace held Alpha Brian's neck and lifted him along his arm-length for his defiance. The Alpha from crescent moon pack was gritting his teeth and tried to free himself, but the more he moved, the tighter Kace's hand squeezed his neck.

It didn't take long for Alpha Brian to feel lightheaded as his vision turned blurry. He didn't even have a chance to shift into his beast completely when Kace stormed toward him unexpectedly and strangled him like this.

"Go ahead and kill him," Alpha Ralph's voice entered Kace's consciousness and he tilted his head toward the Alpha. His red eyes glared viciously at him. "Do you think you can order us around just because you can kill one of us?"

Kace smirked at his statement and before Alpha Brian breathed his last, he was thrown out of the tent with such force that he landed nearly a hundred feet away.

"You better give an order to your own freaky creatures and let Torak do this job." One other Alpha glowered before he threw Chiron a nasty look. He barred his teeth and ready to fight the youngest Donovan in case he attacked him the way he did to Alpha Brian. A Donovan's strength was quite remarkable, they couldn't put their guard down, especially when Kace looked very upset now.

Kace felt his blood boiling with rage, all he could see was red.

But then, his human's side pushed his way through the thick confusion and took over. He knew he couldn't do this. He was not an Alpha neither did he regard Torak's people as his own.

"Good." Kace only said that word before he walked out of the tent, shifted into his beast and dashed toward the city behind the wall.

He hated himself for running away from his responsibilities, but Torak should know that he couldn't order around his people at such a short notice and expect them to give him the same respect that they gave to Torak.

This just sucks!

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"You were the one who killed Serefina," Raine remembered. She saw a spear of shadow which pierced through Serefina's chest that killed her. "You killed Serefina in that attack."

Dorian regarded Raine with a hard gaze, before he admitted to the thing that he had done. "Yes, I killed her." His black eyes glanced at the witch and the other two guardian angels, who didn't seem to notice that he was there, talking to Raine. "But, why is she still alive?" he narrowed his eyes. Confusion was evident on his face.

"And why are you still alive yourself?" Raine threw the same question to him. She looked around her expectantly. "Are you the only one alive?" she asked.

"What? Are you looking for Aeon?" Dorian scoffed disdainfully and when Raine averted her eyes, he knew his random guess was right. "Your mate crushed his heart and the witch burned him. Do you think he could survive that? Even if the devils wanted to resurrect him again, there was nothing left of him."

Raine knitted her brows when she heard that statement.

"You take his feelings for granted and now you act like you care," Dorian sneered and shook his head. He heard what Aeon had been doing for Raine all these past years until the end, though they had never met in person or even if Aeon wasn't aware of his existence, but Dorian had his own way of knowing everything.

After all, his motive was different from Aeon. Aeon's focus was solely to find this certain guardian angel, however for Dorian, it was to see all the lycanthropes dead. And he was determined to see this happen.

"You were resurrected by the devils," Raine stated, ignoring the harsh words from Dorian that criticized her for not taking Aeon's side.

Raine cared for Aeon, but there was no way she would take his side. No matter how many times Aeon had saved her life or how he had taken care of her during those years when she had to face those supernatural creatures, before she met Torak, Raine wouldn't be able to reciprocate his feelings and Aeon was completely aware about that.

Hence, there was no point to fuss over that matter.

"I am," Dorian admitted, and realization fell upon him. "Did someone resurrected Serefina too?"

Raine was not sure about that, but she didn't felt a need to ask another question to find the answer. Everything was so clear for her now.

If Selene, the moon goddess was able to resurrect the guardian angels, then she was more than capable to do the same to Serefina.

Raine shifted her attention from Serefina when she heard Dorian's chuckle. "Those creatures," he jeered. "It seems very easy for them to ruin the order of death and life. We just repeated the old story."

"If the old story is being repeated then you should know that you are on the wrong side," Raine said grimly.

"You don't know." Dorian shook his head. "You are a fool if you think the devils were defeated."

"Weren't they?" Raine pursed her lips into a thin line.

"Do you think there will be another war if they had indeed been defeated?" Dorian scoffed disdainfully. "I will give you an advice. I am sure you have heard this before."

Raine could see from the corner of her eyes that Serefina and the others started to realize that she was not with them.

"Don't meddle with this war. You will only have a repeat of the fate of the guardian angels from before you," Dorian said.

"Raine! What are you doing there?!" Serefina walked over toward her. "We have to go now."

The thunder rumbled in the dark sky and drizzle of rain started to fall to the ground, but when Raine looked at the spot where Dorian was standing a moment ago, it was empty. The shadow warrior was no longer in her sight.

"Why are you here?" Serefina berated her and looked around, but she saw no one.

"I meet the shadow warrior that killed you," Raine said. She didn't have any intention to hide this truth from Serefina. "It's true, right? That you were dead during the attack."