244: SEREFINA'S PAST STORY

SEREFINA'S PAST STORY

Raine clenched her hands tightly. She fought the urge to retort, feeling helpless and angry at the same time.2

"Do you want to know where Torak is?" Serefina taunted Raine. "Don't ask, but find it out yourself!"

After Serefina said that, she strode away from the room with chin held high, walked past Calleb and ignored his displeased gaze.

"You shouldn't have said something like that. Your words will provoke her." Calleb stated in a very low voice that could only be heard by Serefina. "We have agreed to keep it a secret."

Serefina looked at Calleb briefly before she rolled her eyes dramatically. "Did I reveal our little secret to your little Luna?" She asked sarcastically. "For God's sake, I don't even care about Torak! It's just that her behavior doesn't sit well with me."

Serefina waved her hand to dismiss the topic and strolled out of the house.

"Raine…?" Calleb approached Raine who was dumbstruck. She looked like she just received a great shock. "Are you alright?" He asked cautiously.

However, Raine acted like she didn't hear his question.

"Don't take her words to heart. You already know how Serefina is…" Calleb approached Raine and sat next to her. "She has that rare talent of annoying every person who talk to her."

Raine still didn't listen to Calleb's rambles.

"Hey!" Calleb shook Raine's shoulder to get her attention. "What are you thinking now?"

This time, Raine's eyes fixed on Calleb's face as she voiced out her own thought. "Do you know Serefina before this? Or her story?" Raine asked out of the blue.

"Hmm…?" Calleb frowned. "I am not sure that I understand what your question is…"

"I mean, about the reason why she had disappeared for years and why she has this hostile attitude towards the mate bond between Torak and me." Raine rephrased her words.

For some unexplainable reason, every time Serefina got angry at her and hurled harsh words, Raine felt the witch was venting out her disappointment about something in her past at her.

The way Serefina talked, it was as if Raine has something that she didn't have and wasn't able to get, yet Raine was unsure about her assumption.

Calleb gave some thought to Raine's questions before he came out with information that surprised Raine.

"I don't know where she went decades ago. Nobody knew about this." Calleb emphasized that Serefina had just vanished without a single information about her whereabouts. "But regarding her hostility towards the mate bond that you share with Torak… probably it has something to do with her past." He said, unsure.

"What is it?" Raine leaned over to listen to Calleb's explanation. She knew there must be something in her past that's causing all this.

"There were two things that had happened to her regarding this mate bond." Calleb started and Raine followed closely. "The first is related to her parents."

"Her parents?" Raine's mind replayed the images of Cassandra and Fabian - the beautiful woman who was pregnant with her first child, who was no other than Serefina herself and Fabian, the witch with pure blood.

Raine didn't see how the problem was related to them. Fabian was a loving husband and Cassandra seemed to love him more. Moreover, Fabian even showed his utter dislike towards the Lycanthropes.

This made no sense to Raine until she remembered Belinda's existence.

Belinda was Serefina's half-sister who shared the same blood as her through their father. But how could that have happened?

"Yes." Calleb nodded. "Serefina's father was mated to a female werewolf." His words confirmed Raine's suspicion.

"But Serefina's father has a wife and daughter." Raine felt uneasy. "How did he end up with a female werewolf?"

"The mate bond." Calleb answered her with certainty. "From what I heard about Serefina from Belinda, their father met Belinda's mother, who is a werewolf, when Serefina was just five years old and left her with her mother."

Raine didn't know what to feel with this revelation. She couldn't imagine Cassandra was left alone with little Serefina.

When Raine met them, she could see that Cassandra and Fabian looked perfect together and the love from their eyes was evident. She even witnessed how Fabian was worried about his pregnant wife. Yet because of the mate bond, Fabian had to leave them?

"The pull of the mate bond is so strong." Calleb explained and when he saw Raine's furrowed brows, he added. "You don't have that kind of pull towards Torak, Raine. However, even though you don't have it, you are still worried about Torak and feels down when he ignores you. But if you have it, your feeling will be a thousand times worse than this."

So that was Fabian's feeling if he stayed with Cassandra and Serefina and was away from his mate.

Thus, the last pure blood witch chose to leave his wife and daughter to be with his mate, which resulted to Serefina's first bad impression of the mate bond.

"I don't know if this is reliable or not, but since then, Serefina's father never visited her and her mother anymore." Calleb shrugged his shoulder. "I don't know the exact story. After all, she is centuries older than me."

Raine could now understand Serefina's feeling every time she makes a remark when Torak showed his affection towards her, often implying that such happened only because of the mate bond.

But, with or without the mate bond, those that were destined to be together would be together in the end, right?

"And how about the second reason?" Raine asked. She needed to understand the witch because something is really off with her hostile attitude.

Calleb was hesitant when Raine asked about this. He looked around as if he felt uneasy if someone else heard about this.

"I don't know if it is wise of me to mention this." Calleb slumped his back on the backrest of the sofa and folded his arms in front of his chest, contemplating.

"I will not say anything about this to anyone." Raine promised. To whom would she talk about this anyway?

In the end, Calleb yielded. "Long time ago, Serefina had a serious relationship with Torak's first brother, Jedrek Donovan."

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