Raine furrowed her eyebrow when she heard the way Aeon answered her, but she didn't ask anything further from him.
They were walking for another minutes before they found stairs, which leading them down.
"Wait." Raphael held Raine's hand before she could take a step to go down the stairs.
"What?" Raine turned around and Raphael pulled her behind his back as he faced Aeon.
"Do you scare?" Aeon asked Raphael in mocking tone. He didn't know why the Beta stopped him, but he wouldn't be there to waste his time.
"What are you up to?" Raphael confronted the shadow guard. "Do you want to kill all of us?"
Raphael's statement erupted growls from the two Lycans behind them, they were ready to attack Aeon if it wasn't because Calleb who held them back and convinced them to let Raphael talked to Aeon.
"Why should I kill you when we are already here?" Aeon shrugged his shoulder nonchalantly. "I will not appear from the beginning if that is my intention."
Aeon then glanced at the bird in Raine's hand.
"That bird will only last for another one hour or two," Aeon shifted his gaze from the bird and looked at Raphael. "Do you really think that bottle could lead you here?"
Raphael didn't say anything as he squinted his eyes dangerously.
"Don't look at me that way," Aeon grumbled as he waved his hand with lazy attitude. "If you think that I am Lucifer's paw, then my answer is; yes, I was. But, because of that too, I know what you don't know."
"You are not now?" Calleb quipped from behind Raphael while holding back Raine, protected her in every way possible.
"I will not be here if I was not." Aeon glared at Calleb. "Are you going to stand here or we will continue this? Noted this; I don't care whether your Alpha is alive or not, my concern is only she."
"How dare you to talk to our Luna like that!" Alpha Chris was about to storm forward and ripped Aeon's mouth for talking like that about Raine.
"Enough!" Raine was very annoyed with the way those Lycanthropes and Aeon behaved. "Stop talking and start walking!"
Raine walked past Raphael and Aeon. "What are you waiting for?" she glared at Aeon.
It was Aeon who said that the bird wouldn't last for another few hours, thus why were they still wasting time to argue about something insignificant? Raine simply couldn't understand with their ego.
Aeon chased after Raine and walked in front of Raine while Calleb and Raphael followed them closely with the two Alphas in tow.
After they walked down the stairs, there was another door, but before Aeon could open it, he turned around and warned all of them.
"Whatever you see behind this close door or whoever you meet later, don't ever show your emotion or walk away from the shadow." Aeon glanced at the shadow under their feet.
The shadow warrior didn't even wait for them to answer him as he opened the door and stepped inside without hesitation.
"I will walk in first." Raphael held back Raine and followed Aeon's step.
Raine put back the little bird in her hand into her pocket when she entered the room and immediately shivered when cold wind blew past her face.
It was so cold as if they were inside a refrigerator.
Raine moved closer toward Calleb and snuggled in his embrace as the Gamma wrapped his arms around her shoulder.
Why the temperature was very low? When it was so warm outside? Raine didn't think that they provided air conditioner here.
"Don't you feel so cold?" Raine sneezed as she asked Calleb.
"We, Lycanthropes, fortunately, have hot blood, thus this kind of coldness is still bearable." Calleb explained.
"Oh," Raine mumbled as she felt Calleb's hand, which dr.a.p.ed on her shoulder, was indeed warmer than hers. "I hope in this condition, I have hot blood too."
"Don't worry. You have 'hot headed'." Calleb chuckled on his own joke.
"Not funny." Though she said that, there was a smiled grazed her lips.
They walked further inside, but aside from the coldness of the temperature, this tunnel passageway wasn't as dark as they thought, there was still glimmer of light along the way, though there was no light source there.
And at that time, when Raine was lost in her own thought about the little bird in her hand, she saw something.
A girl.
Not too far from her.
No. There are two girls.
Raine recognized one of the girls as the girl from the vision that she saw before, the girl who was able to revive the flowers that have withered.
But, Raine didn't know who was the other girl.
Who is she? Why they are here?
Those two girls were only staring at her, yet their eyes were not really on her. It almost like they were daydreaming.
The flower girl was holding a bucket of red flower while the other, the one that Raine had never met, she held her hand behind her back.
Overall, Raine could see the resemblance among the three of them, especially their black hair and black eyes.
If Serefina had told her that the girl with flower was a mate of Jedrek Donovan, then it should be safe to say that the other girl was Kace's mate?
Raine's curiosity made her wanted to walk over and approached them, she even didn't realize when she had taken three steps away from Calleb.
And the strangest thing was; Calleb didn't even hold her back or prevent her from leaving his side.
Raine just realized that she left the group when Aeon held her wrist and shouted her name. "Where are you going!?"
"Huh?" Raine was slightly confused when she watched Aeon's stern expression. "There are two girls there."
Raine pointed the direction of the girl before, but she couldn't find any of them. It was only darkness.
However, when Raine looked back at Aeon, there was another thing that shocked her. "Where is other people?!"'