Chapter 4 - BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

Between two planes, I still exist. Between two dimensions, I drift. Beneath two skies, I watch and wait. Between two worlds I roam and waste. -Between Two Worlds, By: Enrico Orbita- The door swung open with a harsh tone from Uncle James. "What the hell is that!?" Raine slumped on the ground when the open door revealed Uncle James in his boxers with a baseball bat in his right hand. "Raine?" James looked down at his friend's daughter. "What happened to you?" He crouched down to scoop her in his arms while his eyes wandered around his yard to look for any possibility of a threat. But, none, there was nothing there, except darkness. "Honey, what happened?" He stroked her back, trying to calm her. "Tell me what happened?" Bad feeling crept in when James saw blood on the little girl's body, and Raine kept pointing out toward her house. James looked at the house across the street with narrowed eyes. "Ann, bring her inside and call the police." He instructed his wife, who was crouching down beside him. James passed Raine to An, and he stood up to approach his friend's house with a baseball bat in his grip. "Be careful…" She warned him worriedly and brought Raine into the house before she called the police station. Three hours later, Raine's house was surrounded by many people who were curious to know what had happened to Tatum's family. A police line could be seen, restraining the onlookers from stepping closer to the crime scene. Sirens from the ambulance car were so loud and deafening that the silent night turned to be chaos. Inside James' house, Raine buried her face in Ann's embrace. In front of her, two police officers were trying to get information from her. "We will come back tomorrow…" One of the police officers sighed deeply after failing to retrieve information from the little girl. "My condolences, little Raine." The older police officers walked toward her and stroked her head with sympathy. "We will find the perpetrator." Afterward, both of them were looking for James again to ask another detail, for the fact that he was the first person who had approached the house before the police came. Probably he had missed something that could lead their investigation to the murderer. The criminal scene was devastated, if one could say, especially inside Raine's bedroom, as though a bunch of actors from the WWF had performed there; except for that, there was nothing. Remembering the scene, not even a single drop of blood was there. Moreover, there wasn't a single fingerprint in there! That was nearly impossible. Not a single fingerprint could be found in the entire house! James repeated his statement that he also didn't see a single person when he approached the house. It was strange… The only person who knew the truth was Oaine Tatum, the only daughter of Tatum's family, but she wasn't in a good state for interrogation. "I didn't see anyone when I came," James repeated. 8 years later. "Did I make myself clear?" Torak's deep voice boomed inside the room that consisted of six people on his Board of Directors. While his gaze swept throughout the room, all of them didn't ddaredto look him in the eyes as they hummed in a tone of agreement. "All of you can leave, except Mr. Ronan." Torak's ocean blue eyes fell on the middle-aged man who was sitting on his right side. "Yes, Sir," All of them answered in unison and hurriedly collected their scattered papers on the table as though the next second they stayed, their CEO would make their lives more miserable than this. Everyone except Ronan left the room. The five of them were throwing their sympathetic look on him, their common guess was that Ronan, as one of the shareholders, had done something that was unacceptable, and Torak Donovant needed to talk to him face to face. Since the beginning of the meeting, they had felt Torak wasn't in his right mood. He looked colder and sharper than before. It didn't mean that he was unusually cordial and warm with other people, but something must have gone very wrong if they could notice the irritation in his demeanor during the meeting. However, the thing that they didn't know about their discussion was beyond their imagination. After everyone left, a young man in his late twenties came inside the room, and Ronan stood up from his seat, bent his body slightly in respect. "Beta Supreme Raphael." He greeted Raphael, Toraks's assistant. Raphael nodded his head in acknowledgement as he sauntered across the room and put a stack of documents on the table in front of Torak. "Alpha Supreme Torak, you need to take a look at this." Raphael pushed an important document that needed Torak's attention the most. Torak Donovan, the legendary name from Donovan's sibling, who was famous in both the human world and the supernatural world. He was the famous CEO of Donovan Enterprises Holding, Inc. in the human world; not every soul was fortunate enough to see him. He ran the company behind the scenes and only held important meetings with important people, while the rest would be handled by his Beta or Gamma. Not all of his staff were human; most of them were supernatural creatures, like Ronan. He was initially an alpha of the Crescent Moon pack, the pack that was located in one of Torak's businesses. Automatically, most of the members of the pack would work for him under his company. He was the sovereign in the Human world for their kind, while Jedrek Donovan, his brother, ruled the supernatural world alongside Kace. However, Kace had gone missing for almost a hundred years by now. No one knew where he was.