The Love Of An Alpha Lycan

Chapter 1

Hundred of years later

Little Raine was tucked into her bed after her mother was done with her bedtime story. Her ink black curly hair scattered all over the white pillow as her cherry lips formed a cute yawn and her eyes fluttered in an attempt to fight the drowsiness.

She still wanted to hear her mother's story, but her sleepiness got the best of her.

Raine Tatum was an adorable eight years old girl who would turn nine the day after tomorrow. She was so excited for her birthday party that had been arranged by her parents.

"Goodnight Raine…" Her mother kissed her forehead before she stood up and turned off the light while walking out of the bedroom.

"Goodnight mommy." said Raine, while cuddling her teddy bear. Seconds later, the little girl fell into a deep sleep.

The night was silent, too silent.

The unusual thick darkness felt like heavy mist, surrounding Raine. The feeling of a cold hand touching her legs, woke her up. She tried to brush it away and went back to sleep, thinking it was only a dream.

The next thing she knew, the grab tightened. Only after that Raine's eyes widened. She looked down to her legs. There she met a pair of eyes, as red as blood. They were locked to hers.

The chills crawled all over her body instantly. And that 'thing' with red eyes was crawling on top of her too. A hollow with sharp teeth around it placed there, where a mouth was supposed to be.

This thing's cold hands were moving from her legs to her neck, trying to strangle her. The hot breath of that thing blew in her face, leaving the poor little girl frightened.

Frozen and in shock, she couldn't breathe, let alone screamed asking for help. Her body was trembling uncontrollably.

As if the air was sucked out from her lungs, she was breathless. She didn't know what would happen, but the pain in her chest caused by the lack of air, made her uncomfortable. Her body convulsed, as an effect of the event.

Raine tried to kick the 'thing' that strangled her, but it was just another futile attempt.

When she felt her vision turned blurry and darkness was about to pull her in, the door was slammed open along with this high pitch gruff voice of a man.

"Stop!" He yelled.

The red-eyed man jerked away and released her. Raine took the opportunity to fill her lungs with air as her body collapsed to the floor with pain.

"Mommy…" She managed to call her mother weakly. "Mommy…" She called her again between her sobs, however her weakened voice no louder than a whisper.

With her remaining strength, Raine raised her head slowly to look at the man who was standing on the doorstep of her bedroom. He was wearing a black sweater and ripped jeans, his long black hair was tied at the back of his neck, and his smile…

His smile was so vicious, showing his elongated canines from his gums. Raine gasped loudly, before breaking into a fit of cry.

"Shut up!!!" he snarled.

Raine was afraid and her cry became louder, then desperately calling for her mother. "Mommy… Mommy…"

"SHUT UP!!!" he growled. His right hand smashed the top of Raine's drawer and it shattered into pieces. The little girl breathed in cold breath and crawled backward to under her bed, sheltered herself there while cowering in fear.

"Shift!" he ordered the red-eyed man to shift.

Grunted, that 'thing's body shook strangely as its long and cold fingers shrunk into a normal human size. The hollow on his face turned into a pair of lips that curled into a smirk and his body transformed into a shirtless human. His red eyes stayed unchanged.

"Why did you stop me?" he asked. That man intentionally sat on the top of the bed. Made the bed hollowed down by his weight. Raine flinched and shrieked while crouching under the bed. "She is the girl that Lucifer has been looking for this past century."

"How do you know it's her?" the red-eyed man shrugged his shoulder as he spoke to the man on the doorstep who was narrowing his eyes dangerously at him.

"She is able to see me when I shift."

The fact that any other ordinary humans would never be able to see shapeshifters in their other form, thus Raine wasn't supposed to be able to see him like before then, but she did. It was crystal clear for her. The other man's eyes gleamed as he stroked his chin.

"We will bring her to Beelzebub. Alive."

When he finished his words, the dreadful growl of the red-eyed man filled the room. It made the bed shaking with his growling voice and Raine whimpered under the bed.

The man's black sweater had torn into shreds while his long black hair hung behind him.

Raine whimpered when without warning, his bloody hand grabbed the back of her pajamas and rushed her out of the room.

He dragged the little girl away along the hallway out of her bedroom. Once again, she screamed once on top of her lungs, in an attempt of calling her mother and father. But, there was no response from any living soul around.

Impossible…

The scary man just passed her parents' bedroom, there was no way that they couldn't hear her loud scream, no matter how deep they had fallen asleep. She cried and tried to free herself away from the man's tight grip.

She scratched his hand with her nails, but his skin was solid hard, as if it was made of marble. She tried to hit his leg, but her attempt was another pointless aggression, he wasn't even budged for that.

Then, she bit his hand that was grabbing her pajamas. And only then, had she gotten the man's attention.

The man stopped walking as he raised Raine on his left hand. Her attempt to run away annoyed him to the point where it made him angry.

With a low growl of rage, he threw Raine towards the glass display cabinet, where her father put his collection of tower miniatures that he got from the places he had been to.

The glass was shattering the moment her body slammed into the display cabinet and in no time the tiny shards pierced her skin in certain places on Raine's body, causing the little girl to cry in pain. The broken glasses scattered all over the floor.

"Mommy… Daddy…" She cried when the fragment cut her feet while trying to stand up.

But, her fear of the man in front of her, turned her numb as she backed away from him and ran towards the open door in the living room.

As Raine dashed towards the entrance direction, she caught a glimpse of two dead bodies laid on the floor. Blood was oozing out from the open wounds on their body.

She knew them!

"Mommy! Daddy!!" She cried in horror. The scene was too terrifying for her.

Traumatized by the scene in front of her eyes, Raine slumped to the ground as the loud shattering scream escaped from her lips. She was shivering and shaking uncontrollably.

Covering her eyes with her hands, she felt that the man approach her again and swung her up from the floor.

Raine screamed when she felt her body flew in the air as she crashed the wall, the pain was simply unbearable.

However, it wasn't only her who cried in pain.

Strangely, that man also shouted in high-pitched sound while suffering in pain for some unknown reason.

Surprised by that, Raine then lowered her hand from her face and slowly raised her head to see what was happening to the man that caused him to scream in such anguish.

That man was holding his right hand as the bulging vein surfaced, visible for her to see. It showed how much pain that he had to endure that time.

Realizing the only opportunity to escape had finally come to her, the little girl dragged her aching body towards the door which connected to the front yard of their house.

She was thinking of going next door to where Uncle James lived, and asked for help. With that thought in mind, Raine pulled herself together and forced herself to ignore the pain on her bleeding feet. So, she moved as fast as her feet could go.

Faster… faster…

Said Raine in silence reminding herself, as she ran past the doorstep and landed her bare feet on the grass. The dew on the grass made the pain on her foot felt even worse, as though she was running on top of thousand needles pricking her injured foot, yet she could not afford to stop or whine.

When she had ran halfway through the yard and almost reached their main gate, something hit her back very hard. She yelped and arched her back in pain.

Her breath weakened when his sharp and long nail struck the skin on her shoulder, stopping her from her great escape.

"Stop or I will kill you!!!" He yelled on top of Raine's face.

However, his threat didn't stop the little girl from fighting him, she kept struggling to free herself until her bleeding hand touched his upper arms. The scary man screamed in pain once again, and loosened his grip on her shoulder.

Then she came upon realizing, as she looked back and forth from her bleeding hand to the suffering expression of the man above her, apparently, her blood was the cause of his pain.

Without thinking twice, Raine put her bleeding hand to his bare chest and the moment their skin made contact, he shrieked in anguish. "You little b***h!!!" Before he could hit her, Raine wriggled her body aggressively and escaped from him. She stood up quickly, yanked open the gate and rushed to the direction of Uncle James's yard.

The scary man didn't follow her and Raine didn't have the gut to find out why.

She ran along the empty street to the white house next to her house. Fortunately Uncle James never locked his gate, otherwise Raine wouldn't be able to enter his house. The moment she reached his terrace, she opened her mouth to call out for him, desperately looking for help.

But, there seemed to be no one inside the house, she tried a couple more times to call whoever inside the house, and ended with no outcome. Frustrated, she pounded her small fist against the wooden door and kicked it hard.

Pounding and hitting, again and again until the commotion that she made successfully woken up the people inside the house.

"Didn't you hear me, dead man? I said, I will bring her dead body to Lucifer." His hands started to shift back with threatening claws at the end of his fingers.

"You despicable shapeshifter…" He muttered with a mocking tone. "I found her first and I will get my reward from Beelzebub."

He had fully shifted when he roared, "In that case, I will make you taste a second death!" And he lurched forward his nimble body onto the other man.

They fought. The sound of bones cracking and the roared were deafening.

Raine placed her thighs to her chest, wrapped her small arms around them and buried her face there. Her body shivered uncontrollably, and the tormenting scream from the red-eyed man didn't help her to feel better.

Finally, after the long growled and cursed, came silent.

Raine scurried away when the man who was standing on the doorstep before hoisted her bed with one hand like it was weight nothing.

"Come here, you little brat." He said while panting. "Beelzebub has to pay me handsomely for this." He spitted to the lifeless body on the floor. The red-eyed man laid there, dead. Under his body, his blood streamed on the floor.

The door swung open with a harsh tone from Uncle James. "What the hell is this!?"

Relieved, Raine slumped to the ground when the door opened, by Uncle James in his boxer with a baseball bat on his right hand.

James was surprised by the sudden arrival of the familiar face. He recognized that kid's face. "Raine?" he looked down at the face of his friend's daughter. "What happened to you?" He crouched down to scoop her in his arms while his eyes wandered around his yard to look for any possibility of threat. But, none, there was nothing there, except the pitch-black darkness of the night.

"Honey, what happened?" He stroked her back, trying to calm her. "Tell me what happened?" Bad feelings crept in when James saw blood all over the little girl's body. Raine kept pointing out toward her house. James looked at the house across the street with narrowed eyes. "Ann, bring her inside and call the police." He instructed his wife Ann who was crouching down beside him.

James passed Raine to Ann and he stood up to approach his friend's house with a baseball bat on his grip.

"Be careful!" Ann warned him worriedly and brought Raine inside the house before calling the police station.

Three hours later, Raine's house was surrounded by many people. They were curious about what had happened to the Tatums. The yellow police line could be seen outside the Tatums' house, enough to warn the people to not to step closer to the crime scene. Sirens from the ambulance car were so loud and deafening as the silent night turned into a tragedy.

Inside James's house, Raine buried her face in Ann's embrace. In front of her there were two police officers who were trying to get information from her. "We will come back tomorrow…" One of the police officers sighed deeply, failing to collect the required information from the little girl.

"My condolences, little Raine." The older police officer walked toward her and stroked her head with sympathy. "We will find the perpetrator."

Afterward, both of them were looking for James again to ask for any other important details, because he was the first person who had approached the house before the police came.

In hope that he knew any information that could lead their investigation to the murderer. The crime scene was devastating if one could say, especially inside Raine's bedroom. The huge mess could be described as if there were a bunch of actors from WWF had performed there. Apart from that, there was nothing. Not even a single drop of blood could be found there. Moreover, not even a single fingerprint was found in there! It was nearly impossible to happen to a crime scene! Worse, not a single fingerprint could be found in the entire house!

James had repeated his statement to make it clear that he didn't see a single person when he approached the house previously.

It was strange…

Raine Tatum, the only daughter of the Tatum family, was the only person who knew the truth behind this tragedy. She was their only key to solve this case, but she wasn't in a good state for interrogations.

"I didn't see anyone when I came to that house." James repeated.

8 years later.

"Did I make myself clear?" Torak's deep voice echoed inside the room full of six people from his Board of Directors.

While his gaze swept throughout the room, all of them wouldn't dare to look him in the eyes as they hummed in a tone of agreement.

"All of you can leave, except Mr. Ronan." Torak's ocean blue eyes fell upon the middle age man who was sitting on his right side.

"Yes Sir," All of them answered in sync and hurriedly collected their scatter papers on the table as if the next seconds they failed to dismiss themselves out of sight, their CEO would make their lives more miserable than this.

Everyone except Ronan left the room.

The five of them were throwing their sympathy look on him, their common guess was that Ronan, as one of the shareholders, had done something unacceptable that caused Torak Donovan to have this need of talking to him face to face.

Since the beginning of the meeting, they felt Torak wasn't in his good mood. He looked colder and sharp than usual. It didn't mean that usually he was friendly and warm with other people, but something must've gone wrong assuming from his nature and behaviors during the meeting.

However, the thing that they didn't know about their discussion was beyond their imagination.

After everyone left, a young man in his late twenty came inside the room and Ronan stood up from his seat, bent his body slightly as a gesture of respect. "Beta Supreme Raphael." He greeted Raphael, Torak's assistant.

Raphael nodded his head in acknowledgement as he sauntered across the room and put a stack of documents on the table in front of Torak. "Alpha Supreme Torak, you need to take a look at this." Raphael pushed an important document that needed Torak's attention the most.

Torak Donovan, the legendary name of Donovan siblings who were famous in both the human world and supernatural world.

He was the infamous CEO of Donovan Enterprises Holding, Inc. in the human world, not many souls were fortunate enough to see him. He ran the company behind the scene and only held important meetings with important people, while the rest would be handled by his Beta or Gamma.

Not many of his staff were human. Most of them were supernatural creatures, like Ronan. He was initially an alpha of the Crescent Moon pack, the pack established in Torak's territory. Automatically, most of the members of the pack would work for his company under him.

He was the sovereign in the human world for their kind, while Jedrek Donovan, his brother, ruled the supernatural world alongside Kace. However, Kace had gone missing for almost a hundred years by now. No one knew where he was.