Chapter 47 THEY WERE AS GOOD AS DEAD
47 THEY WERE AS GOOD AS DEAD
Torak brought his Gamma and ten warriors with him. He left Raphael to watch over Raine as he was the strongest and the one Lycan he could trust the most. Actually, he didn't want to leave her behind, but prison wasn't a good place to start Raine's therapy.
In any case, it would only make it worse.
His little mate insisted to see him off, thus she came all the way to the garage in the basement.
"I will leave you with Raphael and I will return as soon as possible. Alright?" Torak cupped his mate's face tenderly before he kissed the tip of her nose and departed.
Raine closed her eyes and felt the sparkle that erupted from the kiss. She liked it.
"If you want to go somewhere, Belinda will accompany you." Torak glanced at Belinda, who was standing behind Raine. He didn't want her to be trapped inside the mansion all the time. This was her pack and he wanted her to get familiar with the environment that surrounded her.
Originally Torak wanted to walk her himself today, but with the news that came earlier in the morning, he needed to see what was going on in the prison. In what way did Jenedieth manage to escape?
Raine followed his eyes and looked at Belinda smiling warmly at her, she nodded and smiled back softly at the middle aged woman.
A screeched of tires from a car that was coming from behind Torak's back was a cue for him to leave.
"Look after her." Torak said to Raphael while giving a brief hug to Raine and then he left with the other six cars.
Belinda clasped her hands after the last car disappeared from their sight. "Alright! Raine, how about we take a walk out of the mansion?" She suggested cheerfully as her joyous personality radiated from her face.
"Raine, do you want to take a walk?" Raphael asked her to assure that she didn't feel pressure with the invitation. "If you don't want to, we could go back to your room."
"No way. What is good in that floor?" Belinda grumbled like a nine-year-old child, looking at Raine eagerly. "We have talked about this yesterday, young man."
Belinda took a step forward, but Raphael swiftly shielded Raine behind his back. "And you agreed to not rush her to do anything that she didn't want to." His voice was firm, almost as stern as Torak.
Belinda didn't act as impulsive as yesterday when she was facing Calleb, there was a gesture of respect when she stepped back.
"Would you like to go with Belinda?" Raphael turned back and asked her.
Raine looked at Belinda who was offering her best smile, trying to prove her that she was in any case harmless to her. Their first encounter was rather rough when Belinda tried to choke Calleb and that scene still lingered in her memory.
Eventually Raine nodded and pointed at the direction behind Belinda.
"Why? What is it?" Belinda turned her head to look behind her back, but it was only a door to the mansion. "What—with me?" She asked in confusion, didn't quite understand why Raine pointed at her.
"Do you want to go to the meadow?" Raphael quickly picked up the missing words.
Raine nodded again.
The meadow's direction was indeed behind Belinda's back.
"Oh." The middle aged woman slapped her forehead on her first failure of understanding the girl's intention. "Why didn't I think about that!? Alright then, let's go to the meadow!" She said enthusiastically.
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The fa?ade of the prison was an abandoned big house with two floors with a little bit of theMiddle-Ages vibes, with the maroon bricks as its foundation.
Despite the six meterstallwall that surrounded the area, the word "Private Property?? was hanging on the huge steel gates at the entrance to prevent curious people and other uninvited creatures to trespass this place.
However, seemingly this precaution meant nothing to whoever that came and broke in last night.
A young werewolf led Torak and his Gamma to the second floor while the rest of the ten Lycans were standing on guard outside the house.
"Jimmy, are you sure there was no sign of brute force?" Calleb asked the person who led them inside the house.
"No, it's like the other party was walking in and out without anyone tried to stop them." Jimmy answered, tiredness was vivid on his face. "But the guards from last night somehow ended up like this…"
With that word, Jimmy opened the door to another room in the second floor, this room was an infirmary room with two rows of beds on each side.
There were around twenty beds and all of them were occupied. In every bed,there were lying lifeless men with their eyesslightly opened in murky stare. Their faces were pale and devoid from any emotion.
"What happened to them!?" Calleb exclaimed when they approached the nearby bed.
Lying there was a young man with brown frizzy hair, staring into nothingness. Calleb waved his hand in front of the young man's eyes but there was no reaction, even when he poked his cheek, his head only slightly move to the other side, still there was no response.
"I don't know. The morning shift found them already looking like this. Only after we had put the night shift here, we realized Jenedieth's cell was opened and she was nowhere to be found." Jimmy explained.
"How did they end up like this?" Calleb grumbled, his fist clenched tightly.Even thoughthis was Calleb first encounter with him, but they were from the same kind, it pissed him off with the fact there was someone trying to mess with their pack.
"Succubus." Torak said with clear voice. His eyes zeroed into the eyes of the person, who was lying on the bed in front of him.
"Succubus?" Calleb and Jimmy reiterated at the same time, their eyebrows shot up while their nose scrunched in distaste.
If it was succubus, then those people were as good as dead.