Chapter 117 METANOIA 13
117 METANOIA 13
"Let me meet him." Raine said stubbornly. "Because I am his mate."
"NO!" Aeon yelled. He thought that was another trick from Raine to get away from him. "You are not his mate! You are mine!" He forcefully hugged her, and buried his head on her neck.
Raine was screaming when he did that and tried to push him away, but of course she couldn't overpower him.
"Mine…" Aeon whispered to her ear, didn't even bother with another attempt from her to push him away.
The sound of his voice just now, rang the bell in Raine's memory. She had heard that, someone said it in the same way, the same voice as he did…
It was that man…
The man in her dream…
The man who touched her, in her dream…
But, what was this all about exactly? Or, perhaps Raine got it wrong? Probably, it wasn't his voice. After all that was just a dream. Yet, to think about this again, ever since all the absurdity that had happened, she believed anything was possible to happen. Even the craziest one.
Aeon hugged her tightly under his burly body, but careful enough to not put all of his weight on her as probably he could crush her.
"We have to do it now." Aeon said to her ear as he started to grab the edge of her clothes.
Raine panicked when she heard that, especially when his hand was on her waist. She screamed, rejected his touch and his advance.
When Aeon turned deaf ears on Raine's rejection, she cried and bit his upper arms. Raine bit him until she felt like her teeth came off and her jaw numb.
Seeing her like that, Aeon stopped his advance and patted the back of Raine's head. "I will not do it, stop biting." He said with a sigh.
Raine didn't listen to him as she kept her teeth sunk on his thick clothes, barely touching his skin.
It wasn't the pain that made Aeon stop, but it was because of Raine's extreme rejection that stopped him. There had never been a case where a guardian angel refused their mate and fought him.
"I will not do it, so stop it." Aeon patted the back of her head.
The bonded was important for him right now since he would be in a battle with the lycans tomorrow, the bonded would make his shadow stronger. That was one of the important parts of their union.
Raine realized that Aeon had stopped his action and hurriedly shoved him away, this time Aeon let her to do that, and released her body.
She attempted to get off of the bed, but her legs were tangled with the blanket and she fell miserably on the floor instead, hitting her face first.
Out of the blue, Aeon was laughing seeing Raine was scrunching her face in pain.
"Silly." He commented and then helped her to entangle the blanket. "Let me see it." Aeon pried Raine's hand from her face and watched her nose turn red, she was adorable to see.
With tears on her wet lashes and flushed rosy cheeks along with her red nose, Raine was simply amusing.
"Stay here, I will get something for your nose." Aeon walked out of the room and went to the kitchen to get something for Raine.
Meanwhile, Raine was sitting on the floor, grimacing every time she moved her face or her legs. Why did she become so clumsy like this?
Not so long, Aeon came with wet cloth that had been soaked into cold water. He put it across her face to prevent swelling.
After that, Aeon simply leaned his back against the wall behind him, and watched the little girl beside her keep the cold wet cloth on her face.
"Tell me the reason why you don't want to bond with me?" Aeon asked after the silence that extended between them.
Raine glanced at Aeon, surprised. He talked about something like this so casually. "That activity wasn't something that you could do with a stranger." Raine mumbled.
Aeon didn't give a reply for that statement, instead, he stood up and walked out from the room. Once again he left Raine alone.
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When the night came, Raine was inside the same room, where Aeon had left her, staring at the window blankly.
When Aeon left Raine, he left the house but kept the door lock. Raine had been trying to open it with all the tools available inside the house, in the end it was only wasting her time while the windows were out of options for her to even attempt her escape from.
All the windows were barred with metals, it almost felt like being in jail.Regardless Raine had never been in one before, but the feeling was almost like when she was still in the mental institution.
When Raine was trying to close her eyes, tired with all of her attempts to leave the house, she heard Aeon's voice. Loud and angry.
He shouted and cursed to someone as they approached the house.
"RON I WILL KILL YOU, IF YOU TOUCH HER!" Aeon hollered when Ron was about to walk closer to the house.
"THIS IS AN ORDER FROM RAMEZ! YOU IDIOT!" Ron was angry as well.
"GO AWAY!" Aeon barked and there were a lot of noises, followed by the sound of someone falling to the ground.
"DAMN YOU AEON!" Ron spat more curses.
Raine was sitting now, her expression was alert, this was the first time she heard Aeon was mad.Even after she stabbed him and rejected him, he didn't raise his voice and still treated her, quite, nice… except for the moment when he pushed her down.
Raine got off from the bed and walked towards the door, opened it slightly so she could hear other voices, who were not as loud as Aeon and Ron.
Apparently Aeon and Ron were fighting over something and except both of them, from the voices that Raine heard, there were other three people who came also as they tried to stop the fight between the two.
"FOR THE LOVE OF GODDESS! DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF?? THOSE WORDS ARE NONSENSE! HOW COULD YOU BELIEVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT!?" Aeon was enraged. "ALL THE CREATURES IN THIS REALM KNEW THAT HE WILL NEVER HAVE A MATE!"
"SO TELL ME WHY THOSE LYCANS SUDDENLY CAME AND DEMANDED SOMETHING RIDICULOUS LIKE THAT!?" Ron was livid as well. He has his own partner, his guardian angel, and now those dogs wanted him to give her away? What kind of nonsense was that?
Many shadow warriors weren't pleased with this news as well.They had fought those lycans and knew really well to not cross paths with them as much as possible.
The last time they fought they lost miserably.Not only that, many shadow warriors were killed at that time.
They couldn't afford to have another fight with them again, but they also couldn't give what they had demanded.
Giving all the guardian angels?! That was equal to asking them to take their own life straight away.
Raine almost jumped from where she was standing when she heard the door slammed open and there were many footsteps climbing up the stairs.
She scuttled away to her bed, and was about to hide under the blanket when the door of the bedroom swung open.
A shadow warrior was there, standing arrogantly, he eyed Raine with hostility as he made a move towards her.
However, before he could reach her, Aeon stormed inside the room followed by four shadow warriors behind him.
He dashed towards Raine as he knocked Ron aside.
"Her legs were hurt, I will bring him to the Elder!" He growled at Ron, and the other shadow warriors warned them to not come closer.
They glared at Aeon when he scooped Raine in his arms. With her injured feet, she wouldn't be able to walk in the thick snow outside.
"Don't fight me." Aeon whispered a warning at Raine when he saw she was about to try to struggle like usual. "They come for you."
Raine looked at the five angry faces before her, and wisely chose to follow Aeon's advice. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he hoisted her up. She shivered when Aeon brought her to walk past Ron.
"What do they want?" Raine whispered when they were going down the stairs. She buried her face on Aeon's shoulder, this was the first time she was so obedient.
"They thought you are Torak Donovan's mate." Aeon said as he grabbed an extra cloak, and a blanket that he wrapped around Raine's body.. "Stupid!" He hissed under his breath when they opened the door to the terrace.
As crazy as it may sounded, but that was the truth. She was his mate, however Raine could senses, and this wasn't the right time to boast about that.
"Who else did you say about this?" Aeon asked as he stepped on the snow, easily and walked with Raine in his arms.
"Lydia, Lucas and their younger brother." Raine answered truthfully, she was only talking with them since the first day she arrived here, which was only three days ago! How crazy it was that so many things had happened only in a short period of time.
"Lydia… Dorian." Aeon hissed their name as if it was a curse. "When you are there, don't mention anything about Lycan, especially Torak Donovan. Understood?" he stared at Raine, making sure that she was listening this time.
Seeing the possible threatening situation that they were facing now, she realized that it was not the right time to be stubborn.
Fortunately Raine nodded.
The rest of the walk was silent as no one talked, including the five people behind them.