Chapter 280 THE PERKS OF BEARING HIS MARK
280 THE PERKS OF BEARING HIS MARK
"I don't want you to treat me like this!" Raine wrapped Torak's huge frame with her arms as she carefully placed her head on his chest. "I don't want you to avoid me…"
"Did you forget what I have done to you?" Torak still didn't reciprocate Raine's hug, he kept his arms beside his body, yet he let Raine clung to him.
Now, both of them were sitting on the cold bathroom floor, seemingly no one of them wanted to go to the warm bed which was literally just a few steps away from there.
"No, of course not. That was very scary, I thought I would die." Raine blurted out the truth.
Torak's eyes darkened and turned even more rigid than they were a second ago. He knew that he almost killed her, how would he forget the feeling when he just regained his control over his beast and found his mate bleeding in his own arms?
That was the first thing that Torak saw when he returned to his human form. He was dumbfounded and didn't even know what to think.
His mind tried to deny the scene before his eyes, yet the reality was right there and he could feel Raine's warm blood which was oozing out from her neck as her breathing became shallow and her heartbeat turned slower by the second.
Even now, Torak could literally feel the fear and the excruciating pain in each and every pore of his skin, crushing his heart at the realization he might lose his mate and the fact that he was the reason behind it.
How could he bear something like that? That was too much for him.
Torak was overwhelmed with guilt, he was even afraid to touch her and inflict some more pain on her. He couldn't trust himself anymore. His beast was so feral.
The beast in him was furious with the fact that Raine still didn't bear his mark and aggravated because they restrained him when his mate was so close to him.
Thus, the first thing that the beast did was to put his mark on his mate. It was something unavoidable as the beast was the primitive side of Torak.
"But, you know why I ended up like this?" Raine raised her head as she grimaced a little when she moved her neck and this made Torak let out a deep growl. Ignoring that, Raine continued with her words. "Because you don't trust me enough to let me know about your condition. You keep protecting me by leaving me in the dark and didn't let me face the problem with you. Didn't you say yourself that WE will face it together?"
"I…" Torak frowned.
"You promised me." Raine didn't let him even utter a word to counter her. "You said it, you said that you will never hide anything from me again."
Raine was awake just in time when Torak was saying that, so it was only right if he fulfilled his promise.
He didn't lie when he said those words, but they were two different things.
"I am not lying, my love… I will never hide anything from you again after I've seen the consequences of my stupid decisions." Torak relented as he lowered his head. "I should have known that Serefina couldn't be trusted." He mumbled and this earned a giggle from Raine.
The sound of his mate happy chirping brought a smile on Torak's lips ever so slightly.
"I like her more now." Raine whispered to him. "Promise me that you will never hide anything from me."
"I promise." Torak replied instantly. "But… what was that?" He looked at Raine with mirth in his eyes when she leaned over to kiss him again, but he evaded it.
"Seal it with a kiss." Raine said sullenly, because of her slow movement, she missed it.
"I don't know why you are so eager to kiss me again and again, my love…" Torak bemused. Raine had been very active to close the distance between them ever since she woke up yesterday.
"Because it was usually you, who always did these kind of things, but now that you are avoiding me, I'm just trying to reciprocate the effort." Raine grinned from ear to ear.
Torak narrowed his eyes upon hearing Raine's answer. "Is it possible that you have changed your personality as well when you traveled back to the past and gained your true strength?"
Raine's eyes widened in surprise when she heard him. "How did you know about this?"
"I heard your little conversation with Serefina." Torak said, his voice tinged with a smile, as he felt proud of her because she managed to accomplish the task by her own.
His little mate had grown stronger than the first time he met her.
"You were eaves dropping on our conversation." Raine accused.
"No." Torak shook his head. "I was sitting four meters away from the door, so how could you accuse me of eavesdropping?"
Raine frowned, but then she realized that Torak had that stupid super hearing power kind of thing.
'Annoying.' Raine muttered inwardly.
"Do you think so?" Torak raised his eyebrows in amusement.
Apparently his mood had improved for the better better after their bickering about this and that, ignoring the fact that he still felt reluctant to touch Raine, he didn't reject Raine's advances either.
"What?" Raine didn't understand what Torak was talking about.
"That I am annoying?" Torak asked with mirth flashing in his blue eyes.
It took Raine a long time to understand. Her eyes widened in horror.
'Impossible! The word didn't leave my lips, did it?' She thought, trying to recall whether she had said it out loud or not. But, no! She didn't, that was a frivolous thought in the spur of a moment.
"No, it didn't. But, I heard it nonetheless." Torak chuckled when he saw Raine's shocked expression. "It is one of the perks of bearing my mark, my love."