370: HEARTBREAKING DECISION

HEARTBREAKING DECISION

Raine was coughing blood so hard when the excruciating pain spread through her entire body before the feeling of numbness paralyzed her as she fell to the ground, breathing erratically.0

Before her eyes, she watched how Sunny fell to her knees as she roared in pain because of Raine's blood that sprayed on her face and neck.

The blood indeed harmed and stopped her, in the matter of a few seconds, Sunny had slumped to the floor, yet Raine's condition couldn't be considered as any better either.

She choked on her own blood, not to mention the blood that pooled beneath her body, the dim light of the room revealed her pale face as she fluttered her eyes.

With her blurry sight, Raine tried to stay conscious, mustering her will to survive from this, though she didn't know when the last time her condition was this bad.

The last thing Raine saw before blacking out was the expressionless face of Sunny.

NO!

Raine shouted in her head when black dots tainted her vision.

NO!

"NO!!!" Raine roared.

She shouted very loud until her throat hurt before she felt someone shaking her shoulder.

"Raine. What happened?!" Someone shook her shoulder again before her voice registered in her consciousness. "Raine, open your eyes!"

"Raine!"

And then, Raine opened her eyes immediately. Her eyes were very sharp as they glowered at Sunny beside her.

Raine gasped loudly and her body was trembling uncontrollably, and when realization hit her, she knew she had travelled back time again.

The same thing that happened when she was attacked by those reporters outside of Torak's office when they were trying to burn her alive inside the car.

"Raine, what happened?" Sunny backed away slightly because the sight of Raine's expression right now was so terrifying. "Is everything all right?" She asked carefully, afraid to startle Raine.

Raine tore her eyes away from Sunny and looked at her surroundings, she was in the corridor again, trying to escape from the battle that was happening on the rooftop now.

Raine needed sometime to calm herself and her trembling body, after all she was too close to death or maybe she would have died if it wasn't for her ability.

But, then… that only meant one thing…

Raine raised her head and looked at Sunny with a complicated emotion. "I am fine…" her voice sounded hoarser than normal. "We have to go…"

"Oh, right…" Sunny, hesitantly, wrapped her arm around Raine's shoulder again. "Let's go."

"Sunny, what did you say just now?" Raine asked calmly, too calm for Sunny to notice anything different with Raine.

"Oh, I said…" Sunny tried to remember her last sentence before Raine started acting strangely. "… I want to decline Mr. Reiz's order, but my father said I have to do this for our family…"

That's it. That was the last sentence she heard from Sunny.

"… sorry." Raine whispered.

"Hm?" Sunny lowered her head to catch what Raine said. "What?"

From the corner of her eyes, Raine could see the room into which Sunny would shove her before killing both of them. It was just a few steps away. 

"I am sorry." Raine repeated as she stilled her heart and a look of determination flashed in her eyes.

"Why are you the one apologizing? Don't…" Sunny had not yet finished her words when Raine touched her face with her hand that was smeared with her own blood, the same blood that she used to force Belphegor release her.

At first, Sunny blinked her eyes innocently, that was the last expression of her that would remain in Raine's mind whenever she remembered this very moment.

Sunny was confused at first, but in the next second, her eyes opened widely as their color changed into bloody red.

Sunny roared with a voice that wasn't even hers. She raised her hand, with nails as sharp as razors, but Raine was faster than her, as she drew a dagger from her hip and stabbed Sunny's chest with it.

A shrill scream filled the air, echoing through the walls in the corridor as Sunny's body fell to the floor. The front of Raine's clothes stained with blood.

Raine didn't know how long she remained standing there, with her vision and mind clouded, as if she was staring through a thick curtain of mist, until Raphael's voice called out her name behind her back.

"Raine, are you all right?" Raphael walked hastily toward the girl, who was standing at a loss in front of her friend's dead body.

In one glance, Raphael could tell what exactly happened there and now, Raine was in shock.

"Raine…" Raphael patted her shoulder and ready to see her tears streaming down her little face, yet he didn't see that.

Raine didn't cry, she remained very calm and collected, despite her slightly hands trembling, even her mental state seemed way better than what Raphael expected.

Raphael then took off his jacket and covered Sunny's body with it while Jack did the same thing and covered the poor girl's face.

Raine turned around, staring at her own hands that were covered with blood.

This was it.

This was how her vision looked like, her hands were covered with blood, not hers, but Sunny's. Should she feel relief because it wasn't her who lost her life in the end?

Raine felt bad to think that way.

But, Raine knew she couldn't do anything to help Sunny, who had been possessed by dark magic either.

Raine had seen and experienced what would have happened if she hadn't did what she had done now.

She didn't have a choice… but, why did she feel like someone who was trying to justify her own actions? The guilty feelings gnawed her heart alive.

And then Raine remembered what Serefina had said to her long ago… a very long time ago, when she was still too afraid to even look other people straight in their eyes.

What Serefina had said was true…

There would be a time when Raine had to face something crueler that she could ever imagine and she had to make a quick decision out of it…

The worst part was, Raine realized this wouldn't be the last heart- breaking decision that she had to live through.

"Let's go." Raine said to the other Lycans impassively as she walked out of the building.

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