THE LOVE OF A LYCAN

108 METANOIA 4

Raine didn't like the way they talked about Torak, but she wasn't brave enough to argue with them.

"Alright, I think this is the time when we have to stop chatting and start to eat something!" Lydia clapped her hand excitedly as she went to the kitchen, followed by the little boy behind her.

"Raine, right?" Lucas looked at Raine, still in confusion. "How do you get to the Desert of No Return?"

Not all creatures could enter that place because that place was forbidden, not only that, the dark energy that surrounded that place was something that was hard to bear.

If it wasn't because of Raine's voice that was calling for help, and sounded very loud inside Lucas's head earlier, he wouldn't ever know, not to mention risk his life to enter to the farthest line of the desert.

"I don't know…" Raine shook her head. "I was inside my room, and waiting for Torak when suddenly I was in the desert." She answered him honestly.

"Why do you keep mentioning Torak's name? Do you really know him?" Lucas thought Raine didn't mean her word before when she said she knew a Lycan, especially the Lycan curse.

Who didn't know about the curse of the three Donovan brothers in this realm? There was no way a guardian angel had anything to do with them.

The lycans despised their kind, and the guardian angels feared them.

"I know him…" Raine nodded, how many times that she had told him that she knew Torak before he believed her?

"How do you know him?" Lucas's voice became deeper as he leaned his body towards Raine.

Raine didn't like his gesture, she was sitting uncomfortably now.She wanted to leave this place, but didn't know where to go. She bit her lips and moved to the other side, avoiding him.

"Raine, how do you know him?" Lucas repeated his question impatiently, and wasn't aware of Raine's uneasiness.

"I am his mate…" Raine said it, her voice was barely a whisper as she averted her eyes, fidgeting.

"Impossible. Torak Donovan is cursed by the moon goddess herself that he will never have a mate for his entire immortal existence." Suddenly Lydia emerged from the kitchen while holding a big pot that was filled with soup, the white smoke wafted from it. "Every single soul knew about that."

Actually Raine had heard about that also, but because she had not yet grasped the concept of mate well enough, she didn't pay attention to that matter.

"Right!" Lucas agreed readily. "You have to meet him in person to find out that you are mate to each other. That's how the mate bond works for Lycanthropes." He recalled the information about Lycanthropes that he had learnt from the elder.

"There is no way you have met him Raine." Lucas chimed in as he stood up and helped Lydia with the plates and cutleries for them. "You will not be here once those lycan saw you."

"But I have met him…" Their reaction and statement puzzled Raine.

What was wrong with them? First they said Torak was a bad person, and now they didn't believe her.

Lucas and Lydia looked at each other's eyes, exchanging unexplainable looks, but it was clear that they didn't believe Raine's statement.

"Probably you had a vivid dream about that." Lydia cleared her throat as she sauntered the room to stand beside Raine. "You know, the Desert of No Return is a forbidden place that is filled with unknown magic, maybe it deluded you from reality."

Raine wanted to say that she didn't make up stories.But their skeptical reaction only threw Raine with confusion. Now she doubted her existence.

"Please stop talking about lycan, I am going to have a nightmare." The little boy whined. "Can we eat please?"

"Alright, let's eat Raine…" Lydia grabbed Raine's hand, ignoring her sudden tense, and brought her over to their dining table.

On the dining table there were two to three main courses with one soup, and there was one extra plate that didn't match with the other three plates, which Raine assumed was hers. Thus she sat on the seat beside the little boy.

"There are not many dishes, because I don't know if you will awake this early! I was expecting—and I did my calculation about it—to find you gain consciousness in a month." Lydia poured the soup on four small bowls for them.

"Hmm." Lucas smelled the aroma of the soup, and beamed in delight. "You have spent all of your energy, it was a good thing that the darkness didn't find you, and devoured you alive."

Raine didn't give a response for that, she simply lowered her head, and drank her soup.However she took a note to ask about this some other time.

After the topic of lycanthropes, their dinner conversation filled with lighter topics.Such as; how was their day. They also generously promised Raine to take her out to see the Village, and Lydia would take her to buy some clothes for her tomorrow.

Raine didn't want to bother them, as they had been kind enough for taking care of her when she was unconscious, but they insisted.

Lydia's size was bigger and taller than her, thus her clothes wouldn't fit her.

Actually Raine didn't mind that, she remembered all her oversized, and second handed clothes that she received when she was still in the orphanage.She bet Lydia's clothes would be much better than that.

After the dinner ended, Raine took the initiative to wash the plates, at first Lydia rejected her offer.But Raine insisted, she didn't want to be the only one to receive their goodwill, without doing anything in return.

The only problem was; that there was no sink inside the house.

"Where should I wash this?" Raine was confused when she saw there was no sink in the kitchen. She had put all the dirty plates inside a wooden bucket.

"Just leave the dirty plates, you can wash them early in the morning in the river." Lydia was busy with her younger brother as the little boy had fallen asleep on the couch.

Raine blinked her eyes a couple of times, she was puzzled with that fact. No matter how poor a household was, they should have a sink, or at least a sluice at home.Not to mention Lydia's family didn't look like a lower middle class type of household.

"May I know what year is this?" Raine was standing at the kitchen door while looking at Lydia's direction, who put the little boy in Lucas's embrace.

"What do you mean what year?" Lucas tilted his head at Raine. "It had been two hundred decades since the battle between the darkness and the light that put our world into chaos."

And that was the talk about the darkness again… Raine chose to not ask about it further.

"Raine, I have prepared a room for you upstairs, the second door on the left." Lydia told Raine while she opened the door for Lucas. "I have to go for a while to make a report about you that you will stay here. Lucas and Ronny will go home because they are not living here, is it fine if I leave you alone?"

Raine wanted to shake her head, but her lips escaped different words. "I am fine."

Lydia smiled and let Lucas and Ronny out first.

"Bye, Raine. See you tomorrow." Lucas waved at her with difficulty as he hugged Ronny in front of him.

After Lucas and Ronny stepped out of the house, Lydia closed the door while saying. "I will be back soon."

And with the soft sound of the door being closed, Raine was left alone inside the house.

Raine looked around this place. Lydia's house wasn't too big, but it's nice, with a fireplace in the living room.In front of it, was a big sofa that was covered with white fur, this gave off an old fashion style.

Raine sauntered the living room and opened the curtain from the window beside the fireplace. It was snowing outside.

The white snow that looked like cottons, was covering the streets, roofs, and the trees. From where Raine was standing, she could hear the wind howling.

Raine felt bad because Lydia has to go alone in this kind of weather for her sake.Why didn't she report about her tomorrow morning? It wouldn't be too late, right?

But, again Raine knew nothing about this place, let alone its rule.