Chapter 127 SHADOW REALM 2
127 SHADOW REALM 2
-Atticus-
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"You have experienced that before." Aeon caressed Raine's long, black hair gently as if he had been longing to do that for a long time. "I am glad you are here now."
That statement perplexed Raine even further.
"Experience that before…?" Raine tried to let the words sink in her understanding. But it was still hard to discern. "Do you mean… I am dead?" And they were in the afterlife now? However, it seemed like that wasn't the case either…
"No, Raine…" Aeon shook his head, but judging by the way he talked next, he was clearly in doubt. "Because you are here now, that shouldn't be the case."
All this mystery made Raine's mind reeled. She just accepted the reality that there were other creatures that lived alongside humans not so long ago, and the fact that she was someone's mate, she didn't complain about the last one, actually she was grateful to be Torak's mate. But being hit by another mind blowing thing like this one, was a bit too much to discern back-to-back.
The situation escalated too quickly into this complicated conundrum.
Raine didn't even know how she should react upon this. She raised her head and stared at Aeon without words, implored for him to talk more about that.
"You had experienced that before, Raine. Those events were real." Aeon emphasized his words.
"Are we talking about reincarnation…?" At this point, Raine was open with all the possibilities. "I remember the pain when the lycan clawed at me…" Her body shuddered involuntarily.
"The lycan indeed intended to kill you, I saw he clawed at you right before my very eyes." Aeon's arms around Raine's body tightened. "But, something inexplicably happened, and your body just disappeared into thin air."
That was also the last thing that Raine remembered before she lost her consciousness.
Were those incidents related to each other?
"I am the reincarnation of a guardian angel?" Even when Raine stated that, it felt unreal for her. Was that possible?
Aeon's face slightly tensed. "I don't know about reincarnation, but I do hear about your resurrection." He corrected his words. "The guardian angel's resurrection."
Resurrection…
The words didn't settle well with Raine when she realized the question that she should ask. "What happened to those guardian angels?" She asked with a voice that was barely a whisper.
Seeing Aeon's expression when she asked that, Raine wasn't sure if she wanted to hear the answer.
"They are all dead." Aeon said curtly.
There was a brief silence that stretched between them until Raine struggled to get free from Aeon's arms. She needed more space.
"Those lycans sapped guardian angel's essence with no mercy. And yes, they were dead because of that."
Raine took two steps back as if Aeon was saying that he would kill her, and not the other way around.
"I don't believe you." Raine gasped in disbelief.
"You don't mean that word, Raine." Aeon took a step closer to her, but Raine was adamant to put distance between them. "You are just in denial. You saw it with your own eyes, and experienced it yourself how that lycan tried to kill you."
"You said it yourself that the lycans are too arrogant to use that method to gain power." They despised the guardian angel, so why would they do that then?
"If you don't believe me, why don't you ask Torak? He and his brothers were the one who initiated the attack on the Village of Angels." Aeon stopped approaching Raine, and stated firmly about that.
It was true that the Donovans were the one behind the downfall of the guardian angels and the shadow warriors.
Raine hugged herself as her body was shivering. There would be an explanation for Torak's action for doing that, right?
But, what was his reason for doing that?
"I want to go back." Despite her trembling voice, Raine's eyes showed that she meant her words. "Bring me back to Torak."
She didn't want to hear Aeon's words any longer, she didn't want to question Torak.
He was the first person who approached her without meant any harm to her, she didn't want to doubt him.
"You still think of him as your mate, don't you?" Aeon squinted his eyes, disappointment was written all over his face. "I met you first." There was a sadness in his voice.
For some reason, Aeon, who was standing in front of Raine, was more emotional and unstable compared to Aeon that Raine met in the Village of Angels.
"Aeon, I don't even know you…" Raine became uncomfortable, she looked around her as if she was searching for an escape route.
However, there was nowhere she could escape to in this strange huge space of endless darkness.
"He is not your mate Raine, you are free to decide." Aeon said. "Just because the Moon Goddess bestowed you to be his mate, it doesn't mean the mate bond works on you the same way, as it affects Torak. You don't feel the same pull as him."
"I don't care about the mate bond!" Raine shouted, she didn't want to hear anyone talk bad about Torak. He wasn't a bad person! "As long as he wants me, that's enough."
Aeon shook his head regretfully. "Of course you care. Do you think Torak will keep you by his side if it's not because you are being his mate?" He stated the fact. "He would have killed you, just like what he had done centuries ago."
Aeon's words pointed out the truth, and this hit Raine hard.
Raine would stubbornly take Torak's side, if she had not yet experienced the cruelty of him in that village, but now…
Raine didn't want to admit it…
If she weren't Torak's mate, then what would he do to her? If one day the mate bond between them disappeared… Would he treat her the same way?
"I don't know why, and how could you leap back to the past, but have you ever thought, there might be a reason behind it?" Aeon continued to talk.
"What's the reason?" Raine asked skeptically.
"So that you will learn your origin, and who you can trust."