UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

Zuri had seen the shattered soul that Knox managed to find in the last minute for Chaos, because July had helped that little girl to escape from this place.

What she had done was unforgivable, but they couldn't hold it against her. Though Zuri didn't think the little girl was important, she was important enough for July for her to be able to do that.

Zuri leaned her back against the wall, while waiting for Chaos to absorb his soul, as she played with the necklace she got from the old lady.

In the end, Zuri needed to take Chaos to Nikolai, her childhood friend. She hoped when that time came, she would be able to not empathize with him so much and cause trouble for herself.

That man…

When she thought about Chaos' shattered souls, Zuri couldn't help but think of that young man, the lycan, who had a high chance to be her mate. She could already feel the bond that had started to grow between them the moment they met for the first time in that catastrophe. Was he still alive?

Did he manage to survive from that place?

If he managed to survive, it meant, there would be a time in the future they would meet with him again, either way, she needed to meet with him again because Chaos needed him, he needed his soul.

What if he was truly her mate?

Zuri heard this… if you lost your mate, you would be in so much pain, you would go through a hell of agony.

How much pain could she endure when Chaos took back his shattered soul? Zuri wondered if she would be able to endure that.

"Are you all right?" Chaos asked Zuri when he came out of the library. He looked slightly better, but his eyes didn't return to their original color, they were still dark. She missed his blue eyes…

"Yeah," Zuri said, smiling softly at him and then took his hand. "Let's have lunch, I am hungry."

Zuri led him to the dining hall, so they could have lunch. Actually, she didn't really want to eat, somehow, she didn't want to eat anything. She could no longer find joy in eating her meal. She ate because she needed to, not because she enjoyed it.

"Forget about lunch for a while, I need you here," Knox said, as he approached Zuri with Sebastian next to him. The two of them came from the opposite direction.

"What is it?" Zuri narrowed her eyes. "I remember this is our second meeting, but you don't even say hi to me," she complained.

The first time they met after years she was away with Chaos was when he entered her room to inform her that he had caught a shattered soul for Chaos, as a replacement of the little girl that July had set free.

"Hi," Knox said casually, raising his hand, as if this was nothing to him, and then continued with what he wanted to say. "I need you to go with Sebastian, as I need to talk with Chaos. You don't mind, right?"

"Why should I go with Sebastian?" Zuri didn't mind if Knox wanted to say something to Chaos, but she didn't know why she needed to go with Sebastian.

"There is a new member in this place and he comes from the Shadow Moon pack," Sebastian answered the question. "Maybe you have a few things that you want to ask, since you too came from that pack."

"No. Pass." Zuri didn't find the need to entangle herself with that problematic pack anymore. If she had to have an encounter with that pack again, she wanted that to be when she destroyed the whole pack. It would be so satisfying to see Liam's face fall when she wiped out something so dear to him.

Hearing that, Knox didn't really care, he just shrugged his shoulders and then put his hand on Chaos's shoulder. They both disappeared from Zuri's sight the next moment.

"Ah, this is starting to be so annoying…" she grumbled. This was not the first time for her to witness such a thing, and it was really annoying when they could use it to escape without even giving her any chance to stop them.

With that, Zuri was alone with Sebastian now. She didn't really want to eat, but it was not like she could roam around to find where the two of them were either, right?

With that, she remembered what Knox said earlier.

They got someone from the Shadow Moon pack. Yeah, Zuri knew that because when they escorted her and Chaos to the manor, she saw him being escorted inside in a different car.

Should she go and see him? What should she do then? Was there any question that she wanted to know regarding that pack? She thought she had moved on from those dark times of her life. She didn't want to hear anything about that pack, but at the same time, she wanted to know things… even though she was not sure what information that she wanted to hear.

"Should we go now?" Sebastian asked, seeing how silent Zuri was right now. "You can stay quiet and say nothing, if you want."

Hearing that, she decided it was not a bad idea, therefore, she followed Sebastian.

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"My twin sister?" July repeated what Darius said, she was in this interrogation room, with Sebastian, who was sitting next to her. Both of them acted as if there was nothing wrong between them, as if everything had been so normal, while Zuri was leaning her back against the wall and stared at Darius, trying to remember if she had any memory of this man when she was still in that pack.

No, she didn't think she remembered any important memories with him when she was still in the pack. They must have met a few times, but because Zuri didn't really want to engage with people from Xerxes's pack, their faces were a blur of memories in her mind.

Except, of course, a bunch of certain people.

"Jasmine?" July narrowed her eyes when she heard that. She knew that her twin sister got her karma. She was the mate of a shifter, the kind that she and her father hated the most, but she didn't know that she was in that pack.

July glanced at Zuri, who didn't have any change in her cold expression. They had not yet talked about what she had done to Chaos' shattered soul, there were a lot of things that happened since then.

"Yes, Jasmine," Darius said, sitting rigidly on his seat. "You need to help her."

Darius heard from July that their relationship was not really good, but they were still family, sisters, they were twins, therefore, there must be something in her that was moved to save her twin, knowing she was being tortured in that pack.

However, July's reaction was something that Darius didn't expect at all. She laughed when she heard how he expected her to help her twin sister.

It was not a happy laugh, but more like she was mocking him for his suggestion.

"What do you mean?" she asked with a glint of a smile in her eyes. "You want me to help my sister?" she repeated the same question, as she looked at Darius incredulously. "You are not kidding me, right?"

"What do you mean?" Darius furrowed his brows. "You don't care about your sister?"

July shrugged her shoulders, what she heard from him was not a big deal to her. "Should I care about her? She is not a child anymore, she knows what she is doing and she could do whatever she wants."

"She can't do anything," Darius emphasized every syllable of his words. He was getting emotional when he added this fact. "She is pregnant right now and the alpha of that pack is forcing her to give birth to as many children as she can. He treats her like a breeder!"

Zuri narrowed her eyes when she heard that. Liam was not a good shifter, but she didn't know that with time he could be so disgusting like this. She was not on Jasmine's side, but what he had done was repulsive.

How could he treat his mate like that? He was sick in the head.

"You said, she has twins and now she is pregnant?" July wanted to know about this part.

"Yes, she is pregnant, therefore you need to help her. There must have been a time in the past where both of you lived a normal life and were loving sisters to each other." Darius tried his best to convince July, because if McKeltars had taken care of this matter, he would be able to see Jasmine again and get her out of there.

July scoffed when she heard that. "From the way you talk about her, I can say that both of you are quite close with each other," she said lightly, as she looked at him intensely. There was something off with the way he forced her to help Jasmine. "Do you have a relationship with her?"

Darius's expression changed for a split second, but he immediately composed himself, yet it was too late, because the three people before his eyes could see that.

"What relationship do you mean?" Darius asked, his voice slightly darker than before. "She is the luna of the pack, I am just trying to tell you that she is being treated poorly by the alpha."

Hearing that, July stood up, while saying, "I can't help you if you keep lying to me."

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