The Love Of An Alpha Lycan

Chapter 5

It was Raphael that finally ushered the two women out of the room. He talked about finishing the paper work of Raine's adoption and there would be some other people who would handle the following necessary procedures.

Once it was only Torak, Raine, and the grey wolf, Torak took a seat at the edge of her bed as the bed screeched under his weight and its startled Raine. She raised her head and looked at him with fear dancing on her dark eyes.

"I will not hurt you." Torak said without breaking eye contact between them. "Please, we have to go." He reached out his hand carefully. He had never said please to anyone, but he pleaded to her not to be afraid of him.

Raine looked at Torak's big hand and the grey wolf that tilted his head innocently while looking at her. She had seen a wolf before, they rarely appeared and never attacked her like the other creatures, but to actually saw them, it still gave her chills. These creatures' size was three times bigger than actual wolves in real life.

Torak followed her gaze. "Shift." He said toward Calleb.

Calleb stepped aside, disappeared from Raine's line of sight before he appeared again in his suit.

Scratching the back of his hand, he gave Raine a big warmth smile. "Hallo Raine, my name is Calleb."

Raine's eyes widened in shock, her lips parted. She didn't know if they could transform into humans.

"Calleb, you can wait outside." Torak said while assessing Raine's expression. She was in shock, yet it was plainly seen that it wasn't her first time to encounter a shapeshifter.

Calleb grinned at Raine before he closed the door.

"We need to go now, my love…" Torak said softly, his tone changed drastically when he talked with her. The endearment word in his sentence made Raine look at him in confusion. She didn't know why this stranger called her that way and also she didn't want to blindly follow him.

Torak sighed when he saw her reaction. Ignoring her trapped being uncomfortable, he moved closer until his chest touched her knees, she petrified.

"You are my mate Raine — and no sane creature would hurt their own mate, no matter how evil that creature you are." He looked at her right in her eyes. "Don't fear me, I will never hurt you. I will never let anyone hurt you."

It had been a long time since the last time someone gave such a comforting look like Torak just gave to her, without any judgment or resentment.

Over the past eight years she slowly began to get used to the way other people around her saw her. Especially when they put her in the mental institution, she was the crazy girl. They had been avoiding her like a plague ever since.

They gave her that look as if she had grown three

heads and would throw gazes full of disgust. But, the stranger in front of her was different. His eyes held concerned and weirdly enough to find how her body relaxed around him.

Torak stretched out his hand and cupped her face in his big palm. "Can you feel that?" He whispered in his husky voice.

Spark.

Raine could feel the spark that electrocuted her skin when he touched her, it didn't hurt, but tickled her in a nice way.

She felt it before when Torak hugged her, but didn't mind about it further because she was clouded by her fear. But, now when she felt it clearly, it made her feel this warm sensation creeping around her face, the kind of sensation that made her want to touch him more. She felt safe.

"You feel it too, right?" Torak moved closer and touched his forehead with hers. "Hurting you is like hurting myself and I will never do that…" He whispered to her.

His warm breath and the spark sensation that Raine felt made her tensed nerves relaxed.

"Now, will you come with me?"

Raine nodded. Her body answered him before her mind could process it. Yet, to think about how she had been living in this past year inside the orphanage, she knew she wouldn't regret her decision. She believed him and it was strange, but at the same time she knew it was the right thing to do.

The mate bond worked its way.

"Good." Torak pulled away from her and beamed into

a bright smile that seemingly put Raine under a spell as she couldn't draw her eyes off of him. "We need to go now, my love."

Torak retracted his hand from her face, the loss of spark made Raine slightly frowned, but he took her hand instead and helped her to stand up.

Even though Raine was still uncomfortable from the close distance between them, she didn't reject his touch.

Originally, Torak wanted to hug her so badly upon seeing fear still shown in her beautiful eyes, but then, he realized that his clothes were still soaked from the rain earlier and he didn't want to make her clothes wet.

Her true spirit was a guardian angel, but the body that she occupied was a human form. Thus, she would get sick like any fragile normal human. Torak made a mental reminder about this important note.

Raine was wearing a grey sweatshirt that looked two sizes bigger than her actual size and ripped jeans, her hair was slightly damp as droplets of water traced her delicate face to her neck. He frowned.

"My love, don't you have a hairdryer?" If he let her hair wet in this cold weather, it most likely she would catch a cold.

Raine stared at his hand that was holding hers while shaking her head.

"Sit." Torak made her sit on the edge of the bed as he grabbed the towel from the top of the cabinet.

The small room made it unnecessary to walk around as everything was within his arms' reach. He released

her hand and dried her hair with the towel gently. No one talked during that time, but the silence was so comfortable that the both of them drowned in it. After there was no more drop of water from her hair, Torak tossed the wet towel carelessly and grabbed her hand again. "Let's go."

He pushed the door and found Calleb who was leaning there on the wall across them with his eyes closed. It had been seven years since the first time Calleb was promoted to be his Gamma and Torak still couldn't understand how he could fall asleep anywhere.

"We will leave now."

Torak's stern voice woke the sleepy lycan as he rubbed his eyes. "Oh, yes Alpha… I have called the driver to fetch us, they must have been waiting for us now."

Torak nodded and led Raine to get out of that damn place, however he felt the grab on his sleeves. He stopped and looked at Raine who lowered her head as she clutched the edge of his shirt, trying to get his attention.

"Yes, my love?" Torak stopped and gave her his whole attention.

On the side, Calleb's jaw dropped to the ground when he heard the endearment word from his Alpha. He would never have thought that this scary creature could be so sweet towards his mate.

Calleb saw Raine pointed her fingers towards her bedroom and he tilted his head, puzzled, what this little human wanted? Why didn't she talk? However, surprisingly Torak knew what she wanted to

say as he replied. "You don't need to pack anything. We will buy everything you need."

There was nothing worthy there, even this place wasn't worthy of his precious mate. To think about how his mate spent her days in a place like this made his wolf fraught.

Raine bit her lips and shook her head as she stared at her shoes again.

Gently, Torak held her chin and raised her head so that she could look at him in the eye. "There is something important for you there?"

Raine nodded and Calleb stared at both of them in disbelief.

"Go and get it. I'll be here."

Raine gave him a faint smile that didn't go unnoticed by Torak, this small gesture from her made his wolf purred with satisfaction.

Meanwhile Calleb was wondering how his Alpha knew what his mate wanted with only that small gesture?

Mate bond was indeed a magical and an amazing thing…

The sky was still dark, but the rain had stopped. By the time they were out of the orphanage, two black cars had been waiting for them at the entrance gate.

Anne insisted to accompany them outside while Mrs. Lang chose to continue her good night sleep.

The night wind was so cold, but it didn't seem to affect Torak or Raphael, while Calleb had shifted into his wolf form and had long gone.

The hallway was slippery from the splashes of the rain and Raine almost tripped couples of time, fortunately, Torak was nimble enough to catch her.

"Raine, you have to watch your behavior and don't give Mr. Donovan a hard time." Anne warned her sternly, Raine was used to the awful treatment ever since the first time she arrived. "You have to know your place and don't bring shame on Mr. Donovan. Understood?"

Raine kept staring at the slippery floor beneath her, careful to not trip again, she had gotten used to the way Anne talked to her as well, so she didn't pay much attention to what she said when she nodded.

"She could do whatever she pleased. Even if she wished to tear this place down to the ground, I don't have any objection. She just needs to say it." Torak said icily. He sneaked his hand around her waist to help her walk steadily.

On the other side, Anne laughed wryly when she heard Torak's statement, she thought it was just a

typical bold joke. The thing was that she didn't know that Torak meant every single word he just said.

When they were a hundred meters away from the entrance gate, they saw Calleb in his human form approaching them. In his hand he brought a blanket and a leather jacket.

"Sir," Calleb stopped right in front of Torak and handed a blanket that Torak wrapped it around Raine's body before he wore the leather jacket to cover his wet clothes.

Raine turned her head and looked at him in surprise which Torak thought was adorable. He secured the blanket on her body before he picked her up and carried her bridal style towards the cars that had been waiting for them.

Calleb grimaced when he saw Anne's face fall the moment she watched the way Torak treated Raine. A multibillionaire CEO was carrying an ex-patient from a mental institution? Who would believe this? But, this happened for real in front of her eyes!

Raphael and Calleb left the dumbfounded Anne, they didn't say anything when both of them took their leave.

Being wrapped like a hotdog, Raine couldn't free herself, she looked at him with a questioning look that he understood immediately. "The floor is wet, I don't want you to get hurt."

Raine couldn't help but bite her lips, despite the wonderful sensation of the spark, she still felt a little bit uncomfortable with the range between them. However, no one had ever got so close to her and held her so considerately in these past years like the

way he did.

Carefully Torak put her down inside the black SUV that had been waiting for them, he put her in the passenger seat and pulled a strap across her chest, buckled her seatbelt.

After that he walked around the front car and took the seat behind the wheel. The rest of the people who came with them took another car including Raphael and Calleb.

This was the first time for Raine to leave the orphanage since she arrived there. So, she was anxious.

Raine had seen how Calleb transformed from a big grey wolf into his human form. These people weren't like any other normal human, or they were not even human.

She glanced at Torak beside her who started the car's engine and slowly moved towards the driveway.

Is he the same as Calleb? Could he turn into a wolf? Will he hurt me? Many questions roamed her head. Without her realizing, she had been staring at him. Torak caught Raine's curious eyes, but she hastily retracted her gaze and lowered her head, hiding her face between her silky hairs before she pulled the hood on her sweatshirt over her head, completely concealed herself.

Raine rarely looked other people in the eyes as she was afraid by the way those people saw her and the condescending in their look.

She clutched the blanket around her and hoped Torak didn't notice her presence. Unfortunately, the only existence that he cared about was her.

He stopped the car.

The clutched on the blanket tightened as Raine wondered if she did something wrong. She could feel it when Torak reached out his hand at her.

Will he hit me? Raine shivered with that thought. Torak pulled back the hood off her head and gently tucked her hair behind her ear.

"Don't." He said firmly, "I want to see you, don't hide yourself…