The Love Of An Alpha Lycan

Chapter 2

"The witches from the Northern Coven will meet with the Vampires near our territory, based on the information that we got, both parties had arranged an affiliation." Raphael explained while flipping the document.

Torak raised his hand, signaling Raphael to stop. "We will talk about that matter later." He said in a cold voice. Afterward, he brought his attention towards Ronan. "Alpha Ronan… I heard someone from your pack saw a Kanima inside our territory last week?" Kanima was a shapeshifter, a mutation of werewolf's gene. They were considered dangerous creatures because they could be used as an instrument of vengeance. These creatures don't seek for a pack or community, instead they were looking for a master and would carry out whatever their master bids.

Alpha Ronan cast his head down. "Yes Alpha Supreme Torak." he admitted, to have other creatures trespassing their territory was a humiliation for him. "Actually two days ago the other pack member recognized two Kanimas, who shifted into human form in our territory."

Torak's eyebrows scrunched up. "How dare them…" A deep growl slipped on his lips.

Torak lycanthropes territory scoped nearly 70 percent of the human world with him being the Supreme Alpha while the rest was dominated by Demon, Vampire and other creatures. The supernatural creatures were mostly living among humans, even though humans didn't realize about the creatures' existence, and it must stay that way.

Torak put his elbow on top of the table and buried his face in his palm. He felt anxious recently and his wolf was on the edge, about to surface, yet he didn't know what had caused it.

"Alpha Supreme Torak, are you alright?" Ronan's voice filled with bewilderment while looking at the Beta who seemed to be in the same confusion as he was. Torak wanted to discuss something with Ronan and that was the reason why he made him stay. But, he was too antsy that drove him crazy.

Something didn't feel right, as if he missed something?

No one could tell…

"Torak…" Raphael nudged his shoulder. Besides as his Beta, Raphael was also Torak's close friend. He had been on his side since the first time he established his power in the human world and ruled all the lycanthropes. "Alpha Ronan, my apology… I think you should take your leave. Supreme Alpha Torak isn't in good condition."

Alpha Ronan didn't say anything anymore as he stood up, nodded to the direction of Supreme Alpha Torak and Beta Raphael before he left the room.

"Torak, are you okay?" Raphael took a seat beside him.

Torak raised his head and opened his eyes. However, his ocean-blue-colored eyes changed into this pitch black color staring to the distance.

"Torak, your wolf side is on the surface." Raphael pointed out the obvious.

"I know." Torak said in his rough voice. He closed his eyes for a while before he opened it again and it returned to its natural ocean blue color.

"What happened? You look restless recently."

"I don't know, my wolf wanted to take control."

"It has been a while since you let your wolf out. Maybe he just needs a little bit of stretch?" Raphael shrugged as he stretched his muscle arms. "Oh! I need to let my wolf out as well."

"Calleb is here!!!"

The shouting voice along with the sudden creaked from the door made Torak and Raphael growled. When the door opened, it revealed a young man in his mid-twenty stormed inside the meeting room.

"Next time you do that again, you are going to be fired." Raphael snarled at him.

As Calleb made his way toward the chair near him, he gave Raphael a mischievous smirk. "From what position? As an assistant or as Gamma?"

Calleb was the supreme Gamma for Torak, the third in command, even though he had a reckless behavior, actually he was one of the strongest and smartest wolves that Torak knew. Besides, with that attitude, he could balance Torak reign in both worlds.

Raphael didn't answer his mere, empty question and only threw him a glare.

"What happened to our Alpha?" Calleb leaned forward and met with Torak's dark eyes. "Your wolf comes to the surface!" He repeated Raphael's word and it only made Torak deeply annoyed.

"Shut up both of you." He snapped. "Let's go." Torak stood up and walked out of the door. Their day was long and Torak needed to figure out what was wrong with his wolf.

"Ahh! I want to know what my mate is doing now…" Calleb sighed and dropped his shoulder down the passenger seat.

Apparently, the gloomy night sky on the outside has some side effects for Calleb's mood as he turned to be more emotional.

"You don't have anything close to a mate, Casanova." Raphael rolled his eyes from behind the wheel.

"Keep your eyes straight on the street please, we don't need to have a car accident on our schedule." Calleb scolded grumpily. "Ugh! Why I still haven't found my mate yet…"

"You are only sixty years old, barely a pup." Raphael retorted.

"Excuse me, I am seventy two." Calleb felt offended for being compared with a puppy. "I would have grandchildren if I were a human."

"I would have my seventh generation if I were a human." Raphael responded unnecessarily being competitive.

"You would have died." Calleb corrected. "No human will be able to live for three hundred years."

Because of their long lifespan, this became their private joke sometime.

"Well, nobody can beat him." Raphael pointed at Torak who was sitting on the backseat from the rearview mirror.

Calleb followed his gaze and looked at Torak who closed his eyes, seemingly had fallen asleep. "Indeed, if it was him, we are talking about centuries."

"And you are complaining that you don't have a mate." Raphael reminded him in a hushed tone that made Calleb pout.

Almost every single soul in the supernatural world knew about the Donovans curse.

They were cursed to live without a mate by the goddess of the moon, but no one knew about another prophecy that occurred after the war had ended.

Mate was the most important phase in lycanthropes' and werewolves' life, like the essence of their existence. In many cases, male werewolves would have gone feral for a long amount of time if needed, in order to find their other half. After all, their mate was what was balancing their life.

On the other hand, for lycanthropes that had longer lifespan, often they would find their mate very late that was why they were stronger to keep their mind straight compared to werewolves. Yet, it was still a miracle for them to live without mates for centuries as lycanthropes.

The street of Fulbright City was still alive despite it having passed midnight and the gloomy night sky had started drizzling when Raphael heard Torak's guttural voice, "Turn right."

"What?" Raphael thought he was misheard him, instinctively he looked at him from the rearview mirror and saw Torak's dark eyes looking back at him.

Because of the unexpected order, Raphael wasn't responsive enough to change direction. He nearly missed it when Torak abruptly leaned forward and seized the steering wheel from Raphael.

"Turn right!" Torak roared.

"s**t!" Calleb cursed loudly when the car took a sharp turn towards the narrow alley on their right side.

Many angry horns from cars around could be heard from other cars around that were forced to stop to avoid a possible multiple-vehicle collision crash.

"Torak!" Raphael snapped at him angrily. The scene before their eyes spun in a way one could only see in movies. The scene made their vision blur for a while.

"Call me properly!" Torak snarled in his alpha tone. Upon hearing the powerful voice from their alpha, Raphael and Calleb couldn't help but lowered their head in submission. They were carefully obsequious but surprised by his sudden rampage.

Alpha's tone wasn't a joke, especially from the powerful one. Wolf from lower rank wouldn't be able to withstand it. The consequence from denying an Alpha's tone was equal to physical torment for them. And no one between Raphael and Calleb would've wanted that to ever happen to them.

"Yes Alpha…" Both of them said in perfect sync.

Torak leaned back against his seat and let Raphael take control of the wheel again. His eyes still black, as black as the pitch black night.

The road that Torak chose was a long straight line of street, so that along the way Raphael was saved from his alpha's attempt to grab away the wheel again.

"Supreme Alpha Torak we have another meeting with Alpha Romulus in twenty minutes and this route" Calleb tried to remind him in his shaky, hesitant tone. "is the opposite direction."

However Torak didn't heed his voice as his eyes fixed on the road before his eyes.

Raphael knew very well that no one could talk otherwise when Torak's wolf was in control.

Their wolf was vicious, ferocious and the most dangerous part of them, so they need to control their beast the whole time. The only moment they would let their wolf on the surface was when they needed it for protection or aggression.

The last time Torak's wolf took control when there was a pack that shed of blood.

"What should I do?" Calleb mouthed at Raphael. Since the Alpha refused to answer him, then asking the Beta was his next option.

Once again Raphael looked at Torak from the rearview mirror. His stoic and aloof face showed a warning that said, he wouldn't give a damn for anything at this moment.

In the end Raphael shook his head and said in a normal voice, so Torak could hear him. "Cancel it." He waited for a while to see if Torak gave an indication to say otherwise. But, when he remained unmoved, Raphael sighed and gave a sign to go ahead for Calleb.

The noisy boy grabbed his phone out from his pocket and punched a number, on the third rings someone picked up the phone and Calleb talk in well-mannered voice that didn't suit his usual self.

Hanging up the phone, Calleb stole a glance at Torak through the rearview mirror and landed his gaze to Raphael. "So?"

Raphael only gave him a glance before focusing his attention back towards the road in front of him.

The atmosphere inside the car was thickened with Torak's wolf appearance on surface, Calleb never saw Torak went berserk the way he is now, however the stories that he heard about it, was enough to give him a goosebumps, to the point where his hair awfully stand on end.

The long road brought them out of the city to the suburb town nearby. They were on a narrow road when Calleb couldn't help to keep his mouth shut any longer.

"Supreme Alpha Torak," Calleb turned his head and called him timidly while scratching his nose. "Where are we going exactly...?" His timid voice was mixed with awkwardness and fear clearly.

He waited for the answer expectantly, but when there was no answer from Torak, he sighed and turned back to look at the almost empty dark road.

The rain was drizzling when they made their way into the more crowded street.

"Supreme Alpha, could you tell us your purpose for bringing us here? So that at least, I could prepare myself if only we're near to this possibility of any scenario where we need to fight…" Calleb mumbled while propping his chin on his palm while looking at the stores that still open in this almost past midnight hour.

On the side Raphael glared at him, the last thing that he wanted, was to provoke Torak. Only God knew what he would do when he really lost it.

They thought Torak wouldn't answer Calleb's whiny question, but, to their surprise Torak's rigid expression slightly turned soft as he said.

"To meet my mate."

The mist crept down along with the drizzling rain that fell on Raine's face.

The girl pulled her hoodie over her head to protect her from getting wet, even though that wasn't going to be much of a help. She let her long straight black hair fall to the side of her face, making it hard for people to see her pale complexion.

Raine's black eyes looked down and fixed to the street beneath her, avoiding bumping into people around her by looking at their shoes.

She didn't dare to raise her head.

No matter where she was, she would often see things that other people could not see. There were other creatures around them and it terrified her since no one else except her was able to see it.

She had been trying to pretend as if she didn't see any of them that they don't exist. She had been trying since a year ago when they discharged her from a mental institution, however it was easier to say than actually do—try. It was so hard.

'Those creatures' were everywhere.

Now she developed a new habit to stare down to her shoes to save herself from seeing them. She had learned that those creatures wouldn't pay any attention towards her if she acted like she didn't see them in the first place.

It was a rainy night and Raine hated to wander around the street by herself, especially when the sun had been set since hours ago, because those creatures that were roaming around at that hour were frightening than ever.

People in orphanage, the place where she lived now, would say she suffered from Agoraphobia, it was an anxiety disorder where the person perceived their environment to be unexplainably unsafe.

Raine couldn't argue with this, literally, and also this was an easier explanation for her panic attacks rather than having to explain what she really experienced on a daily basis since childhood.

If it wasn't to pick up Mrs. Sullivan's medicine for her asthma from the pharmacy because she ran out of stock, Raine wouldn't have to be outside and half wet tonight.

She secured the medicine bag under her brown sweatshirt by hugging them.

When she arrived at the pelican crossing, she pushed the pedestrian button and raised her head slightly to see the traffic lights, when she saw the light flashed green with a walking person symbol on it, hastily she walked across the street.

At the same time, inside a black SUV.

Raphael didn't notice that the traffic light had turned red when Calleb and him turned their heads towards Torak's direction who was sitting on the backseat.

"What did you say?" Raphael was surprised.

"A mate?" Calleb chimed in. "Alpha, are you joking now? I thought it's impossible for you to have a mate…"

Torak glared at Calleb and made the boy shuddered under his menacing stare, he often thought that his mouth would bring death to him faster, literally. He lowered his head, turned as submissive as he could and fiddled with his own fingers.

Meanwhile Raphael still looked at Torak intently from the rearview mirror with gaping mouth, his lips moved as though he wanted to say something, but he couldn't seem to say the right words responding to what Torak just said.

Beside him, Calleb saw the light turned to red, but because he thought that Raphael would see it as well, so he didn't remind the Beta, he was the driver after all. Yet, when he realized the car didn't slow down even with the red light, and there was a pedestrian girl about to cross the zebra crossing, his eyes turned dark in horror.

"s**t!" Calleb cursed under his breath. With his lycan speed, he raised his leg, stepped on the top of Raphael feet and slammed the break.

The tires ate the asphalt road with a screech that was hurting their ears.

"Damn." Raphael muttered when he saw a girl in a brown sweatshirt was only an inch away before her body crushed against their car.

"You are most welcome." Calleb gave him a nervous smirk as his eyes returned to the color of green. They couldn't see the girl properly because of her hoodie and her messy hair, but with one looked they were certain that the girl was fine. In shock, but fine. It proved when the girl walked away from their sight hastily, she was running to be exact.

"Stop sneaking a peek to our Alpha my dear Beta.

You almost got someone killed." Calleb snapped at him.

When Raphael was about to say what he wanted to say, a sound of the door opened and slammed shut, startled them, and the next thing they knew, they saw their alpha dashed through the rain.

"What now?" Calleb glanced at Raphael.

"Get out!" Raphael ordered as he pushed the door open, slid himself out of the car and chased after Torak.

"Get out? Now? It is raining…" Calleb grumbled as he unbuckled his seatbelt.