IN A QUIET NIGHT

[Torak, you must shift back.] Raphael's voice echoed in Torak's head. [She is scared of you.]

The Lycan didn't answer, but he let out a threatening growled again. His bloodshed eyes looked at his mate as he lowered his head. 

A little while later, the familiar sound of bone cracking could be heard as the bones cracked into place and the Lycan's body shrank into human size.

Torak's eyes still had not returned to his usual ocean blue color, instead it was still frighteningly red, but from the expression on his face, he was fully in control of himself now.

The clothes that he was wearing remained intact, but the trace of blood colored almost all part of it.

He reached out his arms to touch her, but she swatted his hand again. 

The rejection hurt him greatly, although when he looked at his bloody hand and blood that stained his clothes and also the horrid scene behind him, he could understand why Raine reacted like that.