THE LOVE OF A LYCAN

116 METANOIA 12

Between the preparation, Aeon made time to go back home and checked on Raine's condition.

He remembered that he had locked the armory room, and there was nothing she could eat or place for her to lay down inside that room.

He opened the door, and walked through the gloomy corridor before he stopped in front of a mahogany door, where he had locked Raine inside.

He fished out the key from inside his shoes and with the clicking sound, he pushed the door open, but before he could step inside the room, he felt a piercing pain stabbed his chest.

As Aeon looked down, his eyes met with Raine's fearful eyes, but there was determination that burnt in them. And when he drifted his eyes, he saw that the little girl just stabbed him with the dagger that he made.

Raine stumbled and trembled upon the thing that she had done just now.But a moment later, she pulled herself together as she pushed Aeon aside with all her might.

She gritted her teeth and used her small shoulder to push Aeon away.But her effort led to a failure, because of his huge build and the many layers of his clothes, made him look even bigger. Then, he blocked the entire door, preventing Raine from going anywhere.

After Raine stabbed him, she tried to push him, with all of her strength, yet she didn't budge.

Slowly, Aeon pulled the dagger from his chest without batting an eye, and tossed it aside.He didn't even flinch when his blood started to smear on his clothes and then his thick overcoat.

He stared at Raine, who was slowly stepping back because she couldn't manage to make him move.

When Raine was about to get a sword Aeon dashed into the room and held her hand, trying to snatch the weapon away from her.

This was a dangerous thing and she couldn't just play with it.

But, Raine was determined to grab the grip of this sword, and refused to let it go, she even bit down Aeon's hand and tried to run towards the door when she threw the sword at him.

Unfortunately, she wasn't his opponent and Aeon wasn't in the mood to deal with her.

After Aeon got the sword, he tossed it to the corner of the room. One hand was holding her waist, hoisting up and his other hand caged her hands so she couldn't snatch anything from there.

Aeon brought Raine upstairs to the room where she slept last night and tossed her on the bed.

Her body bounced and stumbled before she managed to get her balance and made her attempt to run towards the door.

But, before she could do that, Aeon had closed the door and locked it again.

"Let me out!!! Let me out!" Raine pounded the door with her small fists as she cried. She kicked the door only to end up getting hurt instead.

However, not long after that, the door swung open once again, and Aeon was standing there while holding a bowl of food.

Aeon remembered, last night Raine had not eaten anything when they arrived at home because she was trying to escape, and this morning he had to go to the border because of the matter with those lycanthropes.

And now it was afternoon already, she must have been hungry.

"What happened?" Aeon frowned and put the bowl on the floor, as there was no table inside the room, and approached Raine.

The girl was wailing on the floor while holding her feet, her body scrunched like a shrimp.

"Let me see." Aeon held Raine's hand and tried to see her feet, but she just became stubborn and didn't let him do it. "Stay still, and let me see!" He growled in a low voice.

This time, Aeon used force slightly to keep her still. Raine abruptly sat down when Aeon opened her sock and saw her bruised feet.

Aeon's frown deepened, he looked at Raine's face and then the door. "Did you kick the door?" He asked in a stern voice.

Raine didn't answer that, but from the evidence before his eyes, Aeon could easily know the truth. She had indeed kicked the door in an attempt to run away.

"Stay here!" He grumbled and walked out the room, this time he didn't lock it. But, Raine also couldn't go anywhere with her aching feet.

Not so long, Aeon returned with white bandage and ointment. He carried Raine to the bed and put her slowly, careful with her feet.

Afterward, he got the ointment and the bandage that he had brought with him.

"Don't move!" He warned her, though he looked very angry.But when he touched Raine's feet, he was very gentle and accommodating, he would stop or caress her feet when Raine whimpered the moment he rubbed the ointment on her bruises.

As he was done bandaging her feet, he got the bowl from the floor that he had brought and gave it to Raine.

"Eat, you have not eaten anything since last night." And Aeon put the bowl on her lap.

Raine looked at the bowl that was filled with rice, and various meats. "Where are you going?" Raine raised her head and looked at Aeon, who was about to walk out of the room.

"I thought you don't want me to stay?" Aeon raised his eyebrows.

Raine didn't want him to stay, but she wanted to know something, because she couldn't escape from this house and from him.

This morning, that man said there was lycan on their border line, Raine wanted to know that, what happened afterward? Could that lycan be Torak? Or people from his pack?

"I want you to stay." Raine mumbled while biting her meat.

Ignoring Raine's request Aeon turned around and left her.

Though she was disappointed, she didn't mind being left alone too. She didn't want him to be near her.

However, not so long, Aeon returned with a glass of water in his hand. He held the glass and waited for her to finish her food.

Sometime in between, he would give the glass to Raine for her to drink and then held it again for her.

"I am full." Raine pushed the bowl to Aeon, there was half of the food that she couldn't finish, because he had brought too much of it.

Taking the bowl, Aeon handed the glass to her. He didn't say anything from the start to the beginning.

"Your wound…" Raine stared at the stain of blood in front of his robe, where she had stabbed him.

"It will heal soon." Aeon didn't even blame her for that, although the shadow warrior didn't have healing ability as fast as the lycanthropes, but their healing ability relatively fast compared to humans, moreover, their endurance for pain was high.

"I am sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you, I just want to get out from here." Raine looked down guiltily.

"You can't go from here." Aeon said it succinctly.

Raine didn't say anything for his answer and only played with the glass in her hand.

But, Aeon took it away from her and put it side to side with the bowl on the floor as he stared deeply at Raine.

"You are not like a guardian angel." He stated as he was referring to the guardian angels' nature.They were the calmest creatures, and wouldn't be so aggressive or frustrated, neither would they try to hurt others like what Raine had done.

"Because I am not." Raine blurted out. "I can't be with you." She shook her head. "I don't want to be with you."

"It doesn't matter what you want or what you don't want, the fact is that we are together now." Aeon said firmly.

Suddenly Aeon had his hand on Raine's neck as he pushed her down on the bed, holding her head so she wouldn't get hurt, while his other hand on her waist.

"What are you doing!? Get off of me!" Raine was panicking with his sudden change of attitude, he was being so caring and gentle when he treated her wound, but now he pushed her again like this morning.

Raine didn't even have time to ask him about the meeting with the lycan this morning.That was the only reason she asked him to stay before.

As if Aeon was reading her mind, he said above her, but it wasn't something that Raine wanted to hear. "This morning the lycan wants us to give all the guardian angels to them."

Raine's eyes lit up upon hearing that. Was that Torak who had come?

"Why?" Raine only could utter that single question.

"We still don't know, we are still trying to figure out what they want." Aeon said in a gloomy voice, those lycan had the upper hand in this matter.

"Was that Torak who came this morning?" Raine asked carefully.

"Torak? Torak Donovan?" Aeon frowned. "Why would Torak Donovan come?" Torak was one of the Donovan brothers, he absolutely wouldn't come for something like this.

He had many great lycans to run their errand. However, if the battle was going to happen tomorrow probably he would make an appearance as they loved to bathe in blood.

Tomorrow would be a bloody day.

It wasn't him who came? Or maybe it was Raphael or Calleb?

"Do you know Torak?" Aeon was surprised that Raine even knew about Torak, where did she come from?And how did she end up in the Desert of No Return?

"I know him." Raine said it. "Just let me meet him."