345: BE READY, RAINE

BE READY, RAINE

Raine's heart clenched upon hearing Clarice's plea, she couldn't imagine herself in the latter's place.1

Being forced to be with someone that she didn't love, losing her child because the innocent kid was being used for evil activities and now she even had to face these circumstances.

Raine didn't reply to her plea, she simply said," Take care of yourself. "And then walked out of the room with Torak.

They would leave this place and return to Fulbright city.

"Don't be so harsh on her…" Raine tilted her head and spoke in a low voice to Torak when no one was around. "She is innocent so was the rest of the people here."

Just because their Alpha betrayed Torak, didn't mean all of his people have also conspired for the same thing, they didn't even know what their Alpha was doing.

Torak was aware of Raine's concerns, so he caressed her cheek lovingly. "I know, you don't have to worry about them."

Raine trusted Torak's judgement, thus she didn't say anything until they departed in their car along with some other Lycans while the rest would stay at the blue moon pack and see how the things would happen there.

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"So, you did succeeded in contacting your little girl?" Lucifer stared down at the man under his feet, who was writhing in pain with a twisted face that was so pale and his chapped lips looked so unsightly.

However, his eyes burned with anger and hatred toward the Devil, who was sitting on the coach right in front of him.

Aeon wanted to say something, but he ended up coughing blood, a lot of blood. His condition was so bad that he could barely breathe after the torture that Lucifer put him through.

"I am impressed." Lucifer murmured. "I didn't think about this, this is my fault this time, for not thinking properly that you will use your connection to the guardian angel to warn her."

Aeon indeed created a connection with Raine through the horn of the unicorn that the witch had brought for her.

Even Serefina didn't know about this fact.

Actually, this is kind of ironic as it was Serefina herself, who had destroyed the book that belonged to Raine's mother, which connected Raine with Aeon, and then it was also Serefina who made a connection possible between Aeon and Raine by giving the horn of the unicorn to her.

It allowed Aeon to feel Raine and bring her to his shadow realm, whenever Raine lowered her guard, like times when she was sleeping.

However, he wasn't as strong as before because of the torture that he had received from Lucifer. It weakened his power greatly.

"But, you know what?" Lucifer crossed his legs and leaned his body against the backrest of the seat. "Your efforts are in vain, because they just arrived in the Fulbright city." A devilish smile appeared at the corner of Lucifer's lips as his golden eyes stared at Aeon's pale face.

On the other hand, Aeon knew his warning wouldn't change anything, but at least he tried and warned Raine to be more aware of her surroundings.

"We are bound by an oath that says you will not hurt her." Aeon spoke with difficulty as his breathing turned heavy.

"Of course, I will keep my promise, but it doesn't mean that if I don't touch her, then someone else wouldn't do that." Lucifer said in a matter of fact tone.

In other words, it wasn't necessary for him to go and deal with Raine directly, but he could always use other people hands to do his dirty job, just like how Lucifer used Aeon for his personal benefit.

Aeon closed his eyes shut tightly upon hearing this. It was his fault in the first place to make a deal with the devil, yet all he wanted was to meet with Raine one more time and be with her, though the last part was ruined because of Torak's appearance.

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The first news that hit them when they arrived in Fulbright city was about the chaos within the company that Raphael had informed them when they were still on the way to reach home.

Apparently, most of the shareholders, were humans who sided with de Medici, the family to which belphegor got appointed as the new leader, and created chaos by signing a motion to replace Torak's position because he had gone missing for a long period of time without any news.

Fortunately, Raphael had handled that situation brilliantly and even managed to suppress the commotion before it got any bigger.

However, his involvement wasn't able to contain the situation much longer, as a weird news started circulating on line about Torak's involvement in the collapse of the library.

Somehow, a picture of Torak that was captured when he entered the library right on the day that building was seen standing for the last time had been spreading rapidly.

Not only that, they managed to capture another picture when Torak left the collapsed Library building, looking totally fine with a small white rabbit in his hand.

Some conspiracy theories roamed around the internet about Torak's involvement with the tragedy that killed hundreds of people.

Right after they arrived at home, Raphael, Calleb, Jack and some of Torak's men were called for an emergency meeting.

They had been inside Torak's office for hours while Raine was sitting near a window in the living room, staring out, at the rays of the sun that were slowly fading in the horizon as the lights in the yard were turned on.

"What did you get from your trip with Torak?"

Suddenly a female voice sounded beside Raine, she didn't have to turn her head to know that it was Serefina who came without invitation, again.

"Another vision, another bloodbath, another dead body…" Raine listed all the things that happened recently to the witch impassively.

Serefina leaned her back against the wall behind her as she faced Raine with a serious expression, which was so rare for Raine who never saw her displaying such an expression before.

No anger, arrogance or nonchalance in her voice like she was used to when she said. "Be ready Raine, it will come soon."

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