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SIDE STORY: BLACK WOLF

There was one room that was solely dedicated for Raine's paintings, since she loved to create art, but after she had Kayden and Aurora that room was rarely used, until they discovered Aurora had the same passion as her mother.1

One of the few activities she liked was painting. Ever since she could hold a pencil at the age of four and write her name, she already showed her interest in drawing.

Therefore, that room now was used by Aurora to store dozens of her paintings.

The thing that she liked to draw usually was nature and because they were living surrounded by pine trees, she would put them on her canvas frequently.

Yet, recently she started to draw wolves, a pack of wolves, after she watched her brother shift before he learned how to hunt in his beast form along with the other lycan warriors.

Her skill became more and more vivid and for a child at the age of eleven, it was simply amazing.

Torak loved spending his leisure time in this gallery room to see whether Aurora drew a new one, or just for simply staring at Raine's old paintings with a smile on his lips, reminiscing the old times.

However, recently there were two paintings that were bothering Torak, which were composed of a wolf, a black wolf, to be precise.

Torak had never seen a black wolf in his pack, there were several wolves with dark fur, but not completely black. Who did Aurora have in mind while drawing this?

This bothered Torak so much, especially when the little girl was throwing tantrums at him because he didn't allow her to sleep over at her friend's house.

How could Torak let her go to a human's house and be at ease?! Nah, never.

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"What happened with both of you?" Raine elbowed Torak lightly when she saw Aurora chose to sit between Kace and his mate, usually the little girl loved to sit on her father's lap, though she was already big enough not to do so.

"Nothing," Torak said curtly, but didn't look Raine in the eyes.

There must be something happening…

Yet, before Raine could ask any further, someone mind- linked him, saying that they caught a rogue near their border, thus it saved Torak from this impromptu investigation, as he leaned to kiss Raine's forehead and excused himself swiftly.

Raine also didn't have a chance to ask Aurora because she already went to the car that was driven over by one of the lycan warriors to take them to school. She then hurried Kayden to finish his breakfast faster, as if she knew that her mother had felt the oddity between her and her father. And, a long list of questions was not something that she could avoid.

"What happened to her?" Raine muttered, watching the car drive away. "She left for school fifteen minutes early."

"Maybe she has homework that she forgot about, so she wanted to finish it at school," Kace chimed in and this got him a look from Raine.

"Are you talking about yourself?" Raine asked and Kace only laughed since he got caught.

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"What's wrong?" Raine asked, and she pulled herself away from Torak, as she felt there was something bothering the lycan when they kissed.

Both of them were lying on the bed, in the dimly lit room, with the chilly night wind fluttering the curtains, as the door of the balcony had been left open.

"Nothing," Torak said, attempting to kiss Raine again, but she avoided him swiftly.

"No, you have been zoned out since this morning and Aurora seems to be pissed off for some reason that she doesn't want to tell me," Raine said, running her fingers through Torak's hair, since she knew he loved this gesture that relaxed him more.

And it was proven to be effective. After a while of coaxing, Torak sighed deeply, or she could say an annoying grunt.

"I think Aurora likes a boy," Torak said, but even now, he was still doubting that thought.

Upon hearing that, Raine raised her eyebrows. This was news to her. She didn't even know when her little girl started to have a crush on someone. "What makes you think like that?"

"Her new paintings," Torak replied in a small voice. "She drew a black wolf in her last two paintings."

"So?" Raine couldn't connect the dots why her painting was related to a boy? "What is wrong with her painting?"

Torak furrowed his eyebrows, pursed his lips and made Raine feel like she was facing the cranky Kayden instead of Torak. Or she could say; cranky Kayden was a replica of his father.

"We don't have a black wolf in our pack," Torak stated the obvious. "Where did she meet this black wolf?"

"Maybe she just draws it without any meaning behind it." Raine tried to be more logical. "You are just overthinking things."

"No, no. This is a father's instinct," Torak said stubbornly. He didn't budge with his opinion. How could he let Aurora sleep over at her friend's house when the thought that she secretly met some brat out there was haunting him?

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Torak was determined to forbid the little girl from having a sleepover and Aurora was also being stubborn. She didn't talk to Torak and today was already the third day.

Therefore, to ease the situation, Raine decided to start with the mysterious black wolf in Aurora's painting to ease Torak's mind that his daughter was not in love with someone, since in Torak's opinion it was too soon a thousand years for her to feel that.

Yeah, sometimes Torak tended to exaggerate things when it came to his children. He would go from the respective supreme Alpha to an annoying overprotective father real fast.

"Who is that wolf?" Raine asked when Aurora painted another painting with the same black wolf in it. Torak would be restless again if he saw this.

Aurora glanced at her mother briefly and pursed her lips. "This is father."

Raine was surprised, she didn't expect this answer. "But, you know that your father has white fur, right?"

"I know," Aurora said calmly. "But, because he annoyed me, I will draw him with black."

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