Kace held Alpha Brian's neck and hang him along his arm- length for his defiance. The Alpha from crescent moon pack was gritting his teeth and tried to free himself, but the more he moved the tighter Kace's hand wrapped around his neck.
Alpha Brian felt lightheaded now and his vision became blurry. He even didn't have a chance to complete his shift into his beast when Kace stormed toward him unexpectedly and strangled him like this.
"Go ahead and kill him," Alpha Ralph's voice entered Kace's consciousness and he tilted his head toward the Alpha. His red eyes glared viciously at him. "Do you think you can order us around just because you kill one of us?"
Kace smirked at his statement and before Alpha Brian breathed his last, he was thrown out of the tent with so much force.
"You better give an order to your own freak creatures and let Torak do this job." The other Alpha glowered and gave Chiron a nasty look. He barred his teeth and ready to fight the youngest Donovan in case he attached him the way he did to Alpha Brian. The Donovan's strength was quite remarkable, they couldn't put their guard down, especially when Kace looked very upset now.
Kace felt his head boiled with rage, all he could see was red.
But then, his human's side pushed his way through the thick confusion and took over. He knew he couldn't do this. He was not an Alpha or he regarded those Torak's people as his own.
"Good." Kace only said that word before he walked out of the tent, shifted into his beast and dashed toward the city behind the wall.
He hated himself for running away from his responsibility, but Torak should know that he couldn't take his people in short notice and expected them to give him the same respect that they gave to Torak.
This is suck!
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"You were the one who killed Serefina," Raine remembered. She watched the spear of shadow that pierced through Serefina's chest that killed her. "You killed Serefina in that attack."
Dorian watched Raine with hard gaze, before he admitted to the thing that he had done. "Yes, I killed her." His black eyes glanced at the witch and the other two guardian angels, who didn't seem to notice that he was there, talking to Raine. "But, why she is still alive?" he narrowed his eyes. Confusion was evident on his face.
"And why are you still alive too?" Raine threw the same question to him. She looked around her expectantly. "Are you the only one alive?" she asked.
"What? Are you looking for Aeon?" Dorian scoffed disdainfully and when Raine averted her eyes, he knew his random guess was right. "Your mate crushed his heart and the witch burned him. Do you think he would survive that? Even if the devils wanted to resurrect him again, there was nothing left of him."
Raine knitted her brows when she heard that statement.
"You take his feeling for granted and now you acted like you care," Dorian sneered and shook his head. He heard what Aeon had been doing for Raine all these past years until the end, though they had never met with each other or Aeon was aware about his existence, but Dorian had his way to know everything.
After all, his motive was different from Aeon. Aeon's focus was solely to find this certain guardian angel, yet for Dorian, it was to see the death of all the lycanthropes. And he was determined to see this happen.
"You were resurrected by the devil," Raine stated, ignoring the harsh words from Dorian that criticized her for not taking Aeon's side.
Raine cared for Aeon, but there was no way she would take his side. No matter how many times Aeon had saved her life or how he had taken care of her during the years when she had to face those supernatural creatures, before she met Torak, Raine wouldn't be able to reciprocate his feeling and Aeon was completely aware about that.
Hence, there was no point to fuss over that matter.
"I am," Dorian admitted, as realization fell upon him. "Was someone resurrected Serefina?"
Raine was not sure about that, but she seemed didn't need to ask another question to find the answer. Everything was so clear for her now.
If Selene, the moon goddess was able to resurrect the guardian angels, then she was more than capable to do the same to Serefina.
Raine shifted her attention from Serefina when she heard Dorian chuckled. "Those creatures," he jeered. "It seems very easy for them to ruin the order of death and life. We just repeated the old story."
"If the old story is being repeated then you should know that you are on the wrong side," Raine said grimly.
"You don't know." Dorian shook his head. "You are a fool if you think the devils were defeated."
"Didn't they?" Raine pursed her lips into a thin line.
"Do you think there will be another war if they were being defeated?" Dorian scoffed disdainfully. "I will give you an advice. I am sure you have heard this."
Raine could see from the corner of her eyes that Serefina and the other started to realize that she was not there.
"Don't meddle with this war. You will repeat the fate of the guardian angel before you," Dorian said.
"Raine! What are you doing there?!" Serefina walked over toward her. "We have to go now."
The thunder rumbled in the dark sky and drizzle of rain started to fall to the ground, but when Raine looked at the spot where Dorian was standing a while ago. The shadow warrior was no longer there.
"Why are you here?" Serefina berated her and looked around, but she saw no one.
"I meet the shadow warrior that killed you," Raine said. She didn't have any intention to hide this truth from Serefina. "It's true, right? That you were dead during the attack."