Chapter 897 - RETURN

Raine felt a sharp pain in her heart, as if someone stabbed her. What was this pain came for?

Out of instinct, her hand moved to her chest, but there was no wound and she was perfectly fine, yet the pain only increased by each passing second and she was having difficulty to breath.

"Torak…" Raine reached out to him, while her other hand clutched on to her chest. "It hurts…" she whimpered.

And out of the blue, she found herself crying, even though she didn't know what she was crying for. She felt very sad for some unknown reason.

What happened?

"Arrest them," Torak said grimly, before he carried his mate out of the house. He knew where this pain came from.

However for Raine, she didn't have any idea that this pain was caused by losing someone that close to her. This was one of the bond that grew in her as a Luna.

"Torak, what is this pain?" Raine curled her body, whimpering. She was confused and in heartbreaking pain, as she couldn��t stop crying.

Someone opened the door for them and Torak slid into the car with Raine in his arms.

"Take a deep breath, my love…" Torak cradled her in his arms and caressed her back to ease her pain, but it didn't help her feel any better.

Raine felt like her soul was being sucked out of her body and there was nothing she wanted to do now, except to curl her body and cry her heart out. To let everyone knew this sadness.

But, why was she feeling very sad?

"Try to breath, my love…" Torak persuaded her when he watched how Raine was panting with her eyes closed shut as tears stained her cheeks. "Everything is all right…"

Raine shook her head in denial.

No, nothing could lessen this pain… she needed to know what this was…

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The centaurs and hunters were working together to fight off the beasts, but they were outnumbered and didn't have much strength left to defend themselves.

"ZARRN! WE NEED TO RETREAT!" Delta, the head of the hunters shouted at the centaur, they were now cornered at the northern wing and the only chance they got to escape was the north entrance gates, which were flooded by hundreds beasts.

"WE HAVE TO FIND ANOTHER WAY! WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FIGHT THEM!" Zarrn shouted back, while making a slash move to cut the beast's head.

Delta looked around him and shook his head. He tightened his grip on his long sword, but there was another beast, who sneaked up on him, yet before the beast could deliver a fatal attack, one of the centaur's arrow pierced through its neck.

Delta nodded at the centaur, as a sign of gratitude before he talked to Zarrn. "There is no other way out of here!"

Zarrn groaned when he realized what Delta said was true. Their best chance was to fight the beasts, but even that didn't look promising anymore.

What should they do now?!

Every minute was important and not too far from them, one of the beasts managed to kill another centaur before crushing a hunter, followed by obliterating alycan.

Was this the end of them?

"If we force forward to fight them, we will die!" Zarrn shouted at Delta as he ripped off another beast's head.

"The situation couldn't get any worse than this!" Delta replied.

As if the universe wanted to prove that the head of the hunter's words were wrong, the lycanthropes, who were fighting alongside with them, shifted back into their human skin all of a sudden.

"What are you doing?!" Delta growled at the lycan beside him. "SHIFT BACK INTO YOUR BEAST! Do you think you can fight them in your human form?!" he was too angry and anxious to notice there was something wrong with them.

However, instead of shifting back into their beasts, those lycanthropes fell to the ground, kneeling while panting heavily.

"What happened?" Delta was very confused and dragged the closer person away from harm. He looked at the shifter and realized that they were not in good condition. He looked around and found the same things happening to the rest of the shifters.

They were forced to shift back, but as if all the strength left their souls, they were not even able to move a finger.

"What happened to them?" Delta mumbled.

With the fall back of the shifters, their defense reduced greatly and it was only a matter of short time before those beasts killed them right there and then.

Was this the end?

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"Jedrek, something is wrong…" Lilac said from inside the carriage, she turned around and found Jedrek's contorted face, he felt the same thing too. "Stop!"

Lilac stopped the carriage and Jedrek immediately got down from there and helped Lilac down.

"We need to go back to the castle. Now!" he said grimly.

This time, Lilac didn't refuse. She looked at Sybil, who was running toward them with confusion on her face, her white hair fluttered behind her back, a complete contrasting color to the dark sky.

Jedrek must have called her over through mind-link along with Sebastian and Theo, as the two generals came closer to him as soon as he got down from the carriage. Their expressions didn't look any better either.

Something bad was happening in the castle. It was a great deal and Lilac could feel it. Jedrek must have felt the same thing too, as his cold expression became even more rigid.

"Take us back to the castle!" he commanded the witch.

Sensing the urgency in her king's eyes, Sybil didn't ask any further as she waved her hand and did her own magic to teleport the five of them right to the heart of the castle, leaving the other warriors and faes behind them.

After the disappearance of the king and the queen. All of the lycanthropes shifted back into their beasts and dashed forward in the direction of the castle, leaving all the things behind, along with faes flying very low above them.

It would be faster for them in this form to reach their destination faster, as the sound of their huge paws landing on the ground, rumbled through the surroundings.