The Love Of An Alpha Lycan

Chapter 3

The rain started pouring down when Raine reached her arms out to push open the worn out black gate of the orphanage where she had been living for a year by now.

She didn't have any other family member that could take her in custody and take care of her. No one that she knew was willing to take responsibility upon her after she was discharged from a mental institution, so the system automatically put her in an orphanage until she reached eighteen years old and could live her own life by herself lawfully.

When her hand was about to open the gate and then someone grabbed her shoulder and spun her harshly. For two seconds she raised her head and saw the man who forced her to face him and the first thought that flashed her head was; this man was handsome. If it wasn't for the rain and her body started shivering because of the cold night, she would have blushed for her own thought.

Not to exaggerate the description of that man, but his feature himself was able to put an average bodybuilder into shame, his enchanting eyes held her captive, it was pitch dark color. His height and weight were bigger and higher than her. His curly black hair was damp with the droplets of the rain that were pouring hard.

Raine lips gasped open like someone who was screaming, but there was no sound coming out from

her mouth. She dropped her eyes from staring at him and wriggled her body out from his grip on her shoulder.

Out of the blue, the mysterious man pulled her into his embrace. His big arm wrapped around her waist and his other arms held her shoulder tightly, but gentle enough to not crush her.

"Mine." He whispered into her ears that sent an indecipherable feeling down to her stomach.

The rain was still pouring down when finally Raine regained her senses and pulled herself together to get out from the situation. She then tried to free herself from his muscled arms.

Raine tried to push him and hit his side, but it seemed her effort wasn't even enough to make him budge. He kept hugging her tightly, oblivious to Raine's attempt to free herself as he buried his head on her shoulder to breathe in her intoxicating scent.

Her unique scent was able to calm his nerves and with his mate in his arms, he could feel the serenity that he had never been able to taste in centuries of his life. The spark that lit up from the skin to skin contact with his half soul excited his wolf and made him yearn more.

It felt as if he was reborn. Those centuries that had passed without his mate somehow looked lifeless and tiresome now, he started to wonder how he could live a single day without her.

Is it the mate bond? He had never felt so helpless, yet powerful at the same time. He was even scared with what he felt now. He was scared with what this fragile girl, whose tip of head could only manage to

reach his shoulder, could do to him.

He cursed the Moon Goddess to spell a curse upon him, but also grateful that he finally found his mate. The feeling was simply unbearable…

Torak felt someone walked closer towards his direction, immediately his body turned rigid as he let out a low growled. A warning.

About a hundred meters away, Raphael was standing with an umbrella on his right hand. "Torak, it's me…" He stopped walking when he heard his growl and saw him squared up in his defensive posture. "You need to release her."

Instead of releasing Raine, he tightened his grip on her waist that made her cry in pain. He didn't mean to hurt her, but in his state now, he couldn't control his strength. For a moment he lost it, seemingly he didn't recognize his Beta.

"Torak, if you keep being like that, you will end up killing her." Raphael took another step closer. "You're hurting your mate."

Raphael's final words seemed sinking in Torak's sense as he looked down at his mate's expression. Her brows frowned and she bit her trembling lips while her obsidian eyes staring back at him, drowned with fear.

He closed his eyes, fighting his wolf for control and won the internal struggle.

Torak's jaw clenched tightly, he liked it when the other creatures feared him, that somehow it gave him a sense of control and every Lycanthropes and werewolves loved being in control. But when his mate looked at him in any way of fear, he felt an urge to strangle anything who was daring enough to scare her, unfortunately it was him.

He didn't believe it, hundreds of years ago he had said that he would have snapped his mate into two when he found her.

Then now, the first moment he sensed her, he was utterly and desperately had this indescribable strong desire to protect her from anything.

This stupid mate bond!

Torak opened his ocean blue eyes.

Raine's eyes widened and her lips parted in shock. She was sure that a minute ago the man's eyes were black, not blue. But, now the pair of eyes that were staring back at her, was turned into this beautiful blue color, which could drown her in a matter of seconds. She stared at his eyes for a while before realizing that

his grip on her body had been loosen. She used this opportunity to escape, however, she wasn't fast and strong enough to shove him aside.

Resulting nothing but falling back onto his embrace again. "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." He said in tone like he was pleading.

His voice soothed her ears and for a moment, somehow, she believed him. There was this odd tingling feeling, like there were butterflies in her stomach. Raine stopped struggling as she felt his strong arms held her steadily.

But, her fear was still there, her body was trembling. Raphael walked closer towards them, opened the second umbrella and held it above Torak and Raine.

"Is it her?" Raphael asked softly.

"Yes, mine." Torak answered with a sigh of relief and proudness.

He brushed away her damp hair to have a better access to look at her face. The girl in his embrace has a beautiful pair of obsidian eyes. Those eyes were avoiding him. She was biting her lower lips nervously that made him pull her chin and freed her lips, her skin was so pale as though the sunlight had never been able to reach her.

Her body was so small, but so right in his embrace. It wouldn't be an exaggeration if he said he was more than able to snap her into two in a matter of seconds. Yet, even the idea to hurt her was a dreadful nightmare to him now.

"Raine what are you doing there? Where is the medicine?"

A familiar voice snapped Raine back to her senses.

She turned her body and saw Madam Anne, the head nurse in the orphanage, was standing behind the steel bar of the gate. Her fat fingers worked on the gate lock as her other hand was holding a yellow umbrella.

At this time, the rain had poured down and turned into a rainstorm and none of the four of them were in good shape under the harsh wind.

"What are you doing gentlemen?" Madam Anne shot an angry look towards Torak who was still holding Raine in his embrace. "Let her go!" She demanded. The girl once again wriggled her body to free herself, but Torak refused to let her go.

"Torak, you must let her go." Raphael whispered and he swore that Torak's eyes for a moment flickered in red color before it turned blue again. Startled, he added hurriedly. "She drenches wet and cold, she will get sick if we stay longer here."

Raphael pulled his tie nervously, red eyes for lycan wasn't a good sign, it could mean that the wolf inside was livid because of his suggestion to let her go. Torak looked down at Raine and only now he realized her poor condition. "We will bring her with us." He said succinctly.

"No, we can't do it that way." Raphael shook his head. "This isn't your territory Torak, you can't do as you please. Probably, she still has family here…"

"For God's sake Raph, she is an orphan!" Torak growled. "And yes! I can do as I please, I don't give a damn who's in charge here! They can complain after I bring my mate with me!"

Sir!" Madam Anne's patience was getting thinner as he put her free hand on her hips. "I need you to release the girl now!"

The disrespect on Madam Anne's voice made Torak growling dangerously and it made Raine become more uncomfortable, she looked at Madam Anne with tears on the edge of her eyes, unable to release herself from Torak's deadly grip.

"Hold her." Torak snatched the umbrella that Raphael was holding for them and handed Raine towards him. Once Torak released her, she attempted to run toward Madam Anne, but Raphael held her shoulder firmly. "Please stay, we won't hurt you." He said in a low voice, enough for Raine to hear.

However, she was so scared and determined to get herself free, turning around she bit down Raphael's hand that was holding her shoulder.

Surprised by what she did, not by the petty bite, Raphael released his hand from her shoulder. He looked helplessly towards Raine who was running towards Madam Anne's direction.

Yet, before the little girl could reach her savior, Torak grabbed her waist and brought her to his side, again, ignoring the shrieking from Madam Anne and Raine's attempt to hit him.

Turning around, the Alpha shot his Beta a dagger look after failing his duty, which Raphael reciprocated with a nervous grin.

"What do you want?" She snapped and tried to threaten him. "I will call the guard if you don't release her!" Madam Anne demanded.

'How many guards do you think that she needs to stop the Alpha?' A grumpy voice echoed inside Raphael's mind.

Out of the blue, a big grey wolf with height around Raphael's hips appeared beside him.

'I told you to come! He replied to the wolf through the mind-link.'

Since wolves couldn't talk, they would communicate with a mind-link that connects them whenever they were in their wolf form.

'I'm here!' Calleb answered mischievously while wagging his bushy tail like a puppy. 'You didn't tell me specifically that I have to come in human form right? It is raining, I don't want my thousand dollar suit to get wet.' He retorted smartly.

For the shapeshifters like them, once they were in their other form, it means they were in another realm, no human was able to see them.

The most beneficial thing for them was, they could keep their clothes intact when they returned into human form, so they didn't need to stark naked or bit boxer brief for their change.

Raphael didn't say anything when he kicked him, however Calleb avoided his feet lazily.

Both of them looked toward the direction of Torak and the fat lady who was, finally, talking calmly despite the heavy rain that was pouring down.

'It's her?' Calleb pointed his snout toward the girl who was cowering in Torak's embrace. 'Our Luna?'

'Yes. It's her.'

'Seriously? What is she? Fae? But, fae wasn't a shapeshifter.' He mumbled. In other words, humans couldn't see them.

Raphael glanced down at the grey wolf, puzzled. 'She is human of course.'

The wolf raised the corner of his lips and showed his canine that Raphael assumed as a smirked. 'She was clearly seeing me a moment ago. No human could see me in my wolf form.'

Raphael looked at Raine, but the little girl had buried her face in Torak's arms, since she couldn't get away from him.

After five minutes of discussion, finally Madam Anne nodded to whatever Torak's suggestion and let him go inside the orphanage as she opened the gate and held it for him.

Like on cue, Raphael approached them when a white plastic bag caught his attention. Bent his body slightly, he took the plastic bag with him as he continued to walk inside the building with the wolf tailing behind him.

The orphanage building was huge and obsolete, it seemed the building had been built for centuries and it had been a long time since the last time they renovated it.

Madam Anne walked ahead with Torak and Raine, in his arms, followed her closely. Meanwhile Raphael and wolf Calleb walked side by side three meters away from them.

They walked along the hallway in silence before Madam Anne stopped in front of a blue door, she opened it. 'Both of you can rest here for tonight. I will ask someone to deliver clean clothes for you."

"I want to talk about her adoption now." Torak said right after Madam Anne finished talking. Immediately Raphael knew where this conversation would be going and he stepped closer.

"Sir, we can discuss this tomorrow morning." Madam Anne slightly frowned.

"I will not wait until the morning." Torak was talking with her, but his eyes never left the girl beside him.

"Sir" she fumed, but her word was cut briefly.

From the side Raphael cleared his throat to get their attention and introduced himself politely. "Please let me introduce myself first." He stepped closer towards them and looked at the distaste expression that lingered on Madam Anne's face. "I am Raphael Lockwood, personal assistant of Torak Donovan."

Raphael gestured at Torak beside him who was still holding Raine's waist, knowing her attempt was futile, she didn't try to escape again.

Meanwhile, in a matter of seconds Madam Anne shrieked and closed her mouth with her big hand.

"Are you, are you the multibillionaire Mr. Donovan?" She gasped and leaned forward to take a better look of the man who was standing mightily right in front of her.

Who doesn't know Donovan's name? He was the most famous bachelor among businesswomen and women in general.

The successful businessman who rarely appeared in public, but once people saw him, it was impossible to forget. His strong impression made his figure engraved in every mind.

Madam Anne didn't notice him before, because of the lack of light and rainy night. But, now when Raphael mentioned it and she saw him with her own eyes. "It's him!" she let out a stifle scream.

She was an unmarried woman in her early thirties, of course with a sight of Torak Donovan before her eyes with droplets of water fell down from his hair, it was quite of view. "I am Anne... Anne Julliane." She stuttered.

Calleb snickered in his wolf form beside Raphael. "You just made the lady almost get a heart attack.' he jested.

Raphael ignored him as he continued talking to her. "Good evening, Ms. Julliane."

"Anne please." She said sheepishly.

"Anne." Raphael nodded politely. "We would like to talk about the adoption right now. You see, because in the morning we need to return to the Redriver City and we need to bring her with us."

Torak didn't pay attention to whatever discussion that was happening or noticing Anne's smile at him. He was preoccupied by the girl beside him. Raine was looking at her shoes, fretting in his arm, he could feel her body trembling. Now, Torak wondered, he hadn't heard her voice from the first time he saw her.

Why didn't she talk?

"What's your name?" Torak asked softly, but Raine didn't even raise her head.

Ignoring her conversation with Raphael, it was Anne who answered him instead. "Her name is Raine."

"Raine," Torak repeated and liked the way her name rolled on his tongue. "Beautiful name." He complemented.

"How old are you?" He thought she must be very young, teenager at least.

"She's seventeen years old sir." Anne answered him again with her overly sweet voice.

"Did I ask you?" Torak raised his head to glare at her. He wanted to hear her voice, but this woman kept answering his question. It annoyed him.

"No, sir but she," she stuttered. "But, she won't answer your question."

"Why?" Torak furrowed his eyebrows.

"She doesn't talk." Anne glanced at Raine who still lowered her head.