UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

July had been waiting for Zuri for almost two hours by now, but she still had not appeared. She even asked Norbeat to check on her, but the soul possessor didn't bring her back any news either.

This library was so quiet and the sun out there was almost gone, while she was waiting for Zuri to come. Did she forget? Did she not want to see her again?

July closed her eyes and decided to see her in the same place, where she left her with Darius, thus she decided to leave, but before she could reach the doorknob, someone from the other side of this door had opened it first.

"Knox…" July mumbled, she felt her heart skip a beat. They had not talked about what transpired last night yet, because this morning, by the time July woke up, Knox wasn't sleeping next to her anymore.

She thought he would be awkward like her, but then his voice was so clear when he asked her politely to leave the library because he wanted to use it with Chaos.

Behind Knox, Chaos was staring at her, but she couldn't say what was inside his mind. Should she apologize again for what she had done?

Maybe that could make Knox less upset with her, if that could help, July didn't mind to do it.

"Chaos, I want to apologize for what I have done," July said. She had never been so close to him. She didn't dislike him, but she did not really like him either, because she always felt like he would only put Knox in constant danger.

Even Chaos's existence alone was a danger to Knox.

"Just leave the library for now," Knox said when Chaos said nothing in response to July's apology. "He is fine now."

No. July was indeed clueless about Chaos's current situation, but she knew that he was not fine, because she had seen how he lost his temper and almost wiped out an entire city because of that.

"Chaos, can you say something?" July ignored what Knox said. For her, it would be better for Chaos to just yell at her or make a sharp remark in the face of her stupidity rather than treating her so coldly like this.

Yet, Knox opened the door wider and took her hand to make her move away from the door.

Even though it looked like Knox was very impatient to get July out of there, it was simply because he didn't want July to be close to Chaos. After all, he couldn't predict what he would do to her since she let go of his shattered soul.

Knox didn't want July to be close to Chaos for the time being because even he himself couldn't read what was in Chaos's mind. He could lose his control all of a sudden and then hurt July.

"We will talk about this later, please go now," Knox said, now their positions had changed, Knox was inside the library, while July was outside and Chaos already went inside the library. He didn't even care about the two of them. "Leave."

July looked at Knox for a moment before she nodded. "Will you come to our room later?" she asked expectantly. She wanted to be close to him again and work things out.

"I will," Knox said, but then he closed the door right in front of July, as he needed to talk to Chaos. There were a lot of things that he needed to let him know.

And when Knox closed the door, he could see the disappointment and sadness in July's eyes, but she needed to understand that it was not safe for her around Chaos right now.

"What do you mean that there is another shattered that is able to absorb the shattered souls except for me?" Chaos asked, as soon as Knox closed the door and walked over to sit near the fireplace.

Knox had been considering whether to talk about this or not with Chaos, since he was not so sure about what happened to him when he lost his consciousness.

He was not in a good condition when Chaos lost his control over the monster that resided in him, but it was not the first time it happened, because every shattered soul would feel when something happened to Chaos, but in Knox's case, he was the most affected by it.

"Don't take my word as it is, because I need more time to gather information about this. Moreover, I am not really sure if that was what exactly happened at that time." Knox threw a small piece of firewood into the fireplace.

This whole manor was modern enough, except for this library, because you will feel like you entered another era in time once you stepped in.

"Stop beating around the bush," Chaos said in a grim tone, as he looked at Knox deeply. He already disliked this topic or even the possibility that it was true, therefore he wanted this to end immediately, so they could think what they must do next. "What is it?"

Knox then told Chaos about Flo and how that little girl tried to steal his soul. It sounded crazy because aside from Chaos, there was no one else, not even a single supernatural creature, would be able to do that.

Therefore, if there was another soul that could do that, it would be a disaster for them. Things would be even more chaotic.

"What would happen if another creature could do that?" Knox asked at the end of his explanation about why he thought Flo was trying to steal his soul at that time.

Chaos was silent for a while at this question, but then he looked at Knox sharply, he looked at him with anger that he didn't understand.

"What?" Knox asked, he didn't think he did something wrong to receive such hatred.

"You know about this and you still let the girl go?" Chaos stated. There was no way for them to know this for sure since Flo was not around here anymore.

On the other hand, Knox wanted to retort this, because it wasn't really him who wanted to let go of Flo, but then he remembered it was July.

And if he could choose, he would rather have Chaos venting out his anger on him, than him doing something to her…

"I am sorry about that," he said in a grim tone. He looked in a different direction. "So, what do you think will happen if there is another shattered soul, who could absorb the other shattered souls?"

The sound of it alone was already so bad, so needless to say this situation wouldn't get any better. It would only get worse, especially with Aaron out there, if he knew, he would chase down this shattered soul.

"If she can absorb the shattered souls, it means, there is a possibility that she will be as strong as you." Chaos looked at Knox. So far, the strongest shattered soul that he had was Knox. "Or me."

Chaos needed his shattered souls to tame the monster, the dark side in him, which helped in balancing his own power with that of his dark side, but if there was another creature that could absorb his shattered souls, logically, it meant, she could increase her power and eventually be on the same level as Chaos.

Knox closed his eyes. July had done something wrong. Completely wrong. This was another disaster that waited for them.

It was not only about July letting Flo go out of her kindness and her attachment toward the little girl, but it could create another trouble for them, a huge one.

"Do you think it is only her, who can do that?" Knox asked Chaos again, he opened his eyes and then looked at him.

Both of them knew the underlying meaning of this question.

If there was one shattered soul that could do that, how many more would be able to do so?

"It had never happened before, right?" Knox looked at Chaos grimly. They needed to find the little girl. He needed to talk to July, they really needed to have a serious conversation after this.

"The tree of life is dying now," Chaos told him.

He stood up and then walked toward the second row of the bookshelves of this library, while looking for the book that he needed.

"What do you mean? How could that happen?" As far as Knox knew, the tree of life was an ancient tree that had lived since ages. There was no way that tree was dying.

Therefore, Chaos told him about the hole inside the tree and about the Ageha butterflies that nested inside its trunk.

"Aaron. That's his doing, right?" Knox didn't need an answer for that, because he knew that it must be him. "Chaos, what is your plan? Especially with Blue, I heard you have given the sword to her. Why did you give the sword to her?"

"So, if there is nothing left of me, she can kill me," Chaos replied curtly, but he told the truth.

Hearing that, Knox scoffed. "Do you think she will do it? She has been very infatuated with you since she was only a child and now, knowing that your fates are entangled together, more complicated than one could ever imagine, do you really think she will do it?"

"She has to do it." Chaos took one book and then brought it to Knox. He opened a certain page and put his finger on a picture there. "She had done it before, she could do it again."

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