UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

"Why? Because you fuck Chaos?" Knox asked grimly, he looked into the distance with so much malice in his blue eyes.

"You are not serious, right?" Zuri squinted her eyes when she heard what he said. She knew that he did not mean it, the words came out of anger and grief, but she still couldn't accept that.

Knox seemed to realize that he had said something inappropriate, as he rubbed his face roughly and then mumbled something along the lines; I am sorry.

He knew that he was out of line for saying something like that to her and this was completely on him. He shouldn't have vented out his frustration on someone else like this.

It was true when people say; hurt people, hurt people.

"Well, I accept your half ass apology, only if you tell me what is going on between you and July," Zuri said lightly. She didn't take it to heart. She had gone through so much to let such lame words provoke her.

"July will leave for Lucinda city three days from now," Knox said. She wanted to leave immediately the last time they met, but there were a lot of things that she needed to arrange and prepare. It was not as easy as she thought to move across the country and enter Lucinda city without any preparation.

"What?" Zuri furrowed her brows. She looked at Knox with a quizzical look in her hazel eyes, but she couldn't find the right words to describe it. "Is it that bad? I meant, your fight."

Knox scoffed and then chuckled, he looked like a mad man. "There is no fight… not at least as long as I am aware of." That was not any fight, it was just July storming out of the bedroom and telling him to avoid her, not to see her again and that would be the last time they would have a conversation.

"Are you really that idiotic?" Zuri didn't hold back with her words at all when she said that. "Of course, you know that she didn't mean it, right?"

Even without looking at her, Zuri could see how much pain that July felt because of her feelings for Knox. In a way, she could understand what she felt.

"Don't tell me that you believe that…" Zuri glanced at him, just to check that he was still in his right mind to talk about this. "She wanted you to get jealous. I don't know a lot about relationships, but she loved you unconditionally, I can vouch for that."

Knox was not sure why he talked about this with this annoying girl, but he openly talked to her about what he felt and also his viewpoints.

"There is no point in continuing this. We have different things that we want in our lives." Knox started to reach into his pocket and then took out a cigarette before lighting it up. "It is better this way."

Of course, he knew July loved him, he knew what she meant when she said those hurtful things, but nothing good would happen between them if they decided to get back together.

It would be a cycle that would never end.

Knox would feel this guilt for preventing her from getting what she wanted. He knew she loved him, but the guilt ate him alive when she could get anything in this life, but she was stuck with him.

He missed the days when everything seemed so easy for both of them and how they spent their time without any worries at all.

Who would have thought they would stumble into this problem and couldn't find their way out no matter what they did? They just couldn't find a way to make things right again between them.

Knox didn't want to see the regret and resentment in her eyes when everything was already too late for her to get whatever she wanted in life.

"I am letting her go, not because I don't want to be with her, but because I love her so much that it overcomes my own anger and jealousy." Knox stared blankly into the distance. He didn't put his focus on anything significant. However, he talked more to himself, rather than confiding in Zuri.

There was something wrong with tonight, because Zuri was the last person on his mind he wanted to talk to about this kind of matter.

No, actually, Knox wouldn't talk about this problem to anyone, he would keep it to himself and no one would know what he actually felt right now.

Yet, he talked about this whole ordeal to this girl.

It was so funny, if this was any other instance, he would have laughed it off. It seemed, he was indeed Chaos's shattered soul, because no matter how much Zuri annoyed him and how they did not get along very well, there was this strange comfort in her presence alone.

"You are letting her go because you love her?" Zuri repeated the words. "I don't understand. If you love her, you won't let her go."

Zuri couldn't grasp that understanding about love from Knox, because she had a different perspective about someone that she loved. How could you love someone, but still want to let them go? You needed to fight for them, right? You needed to make things right and be with them.

"Sometimes, something is too broken to fix and before it really breaks in your hands, you have to let it go." Knox glanced at Zuri. "When you hold a glass too tight, the glass will break and the shards will hurt you. In the end, both the hand and the glass will be broken."

Zuri scoffed when she heard that. "Are you talking about me and Chaos?"

"Why would I? I have my own problems, I don't need yours to mull over," Knox retorted, yet the analogy could be applied to Zuri as well.

She didn't realize it now, but she would realize slowly that being with Chaos was tantamount to hurting herself, not immediately, but eventually.

"Don't you want to see her?" Zuri asked. "Or will you be a gentleman and take her words just like that?"

Knox didn't have a reply to that question. He didn't want to see July, not because of what she said. He promised her nothing about it, but he didn't want to falter and regret this decision at a later time. It took a lot of things to happen between them to finally reach this point.

He couldn't go back now, could he?

"Be a jerk." Zuri patted his back. "Or else, you will regret it."

"Am I not being jerk enough now?"

Zuri shrugged her shoulders. "Sometimes, you are nice." But then, she added. "Compared to Aaron, you are nice."

Knox narrowed his eyes, why should she compare him with that devil… the bar must be so low for him to seem nice in her eyes.

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Knox decided not to tell July about the issue with Flo, how dangerous that little girl was. The girl had gone. She had set her free and now July also would be gone, thus there was no point in him telling her about all of that.

She too would be free tomorrow and would live a normal life in Lucinda city, where she would get the family that she wanted with Sebastian.

Knox had known Sebastian for so long, more than a decade and he knew that he would treat her right. He loved her, he could see it in his eyes how he loved her.

That was the same gaze that he had years ago, when this realm was not this chaotic, when everything looked easier…

"Knox," Sebastian entered his bedroom without even knocking and Knox was so distraught to realize his presence.

Shit.

He wanted to be alone and Sebastian was the last person that he wanted to meet.

"No, don't go!" Sebastian immediately stopped him, when his form started to fade. He was about to teleport himself somewhere in order to avoid him.

Knox had done it a few times during these two days, therefore, it was hard to find him.

But Sebastian knew he would spend his time in this room. The room that had so many memories of him and July.

"Are you really letting her go?" Sebastian asked when he was sure that Knox wouldn't go anywhere. He was so reluctant to talk to him, which was understandable, but he wanted to say what he needed to say. "If you let her go now, I want you not to come back into her life again."

That sounded harsh and cruel, moreover, seeing how they had worked together for so long, that sounded so bold. They looked more like brothers once in the past, if one could say.

However, they had come to this now.

"If you really let her go, I don't want you to return into her life anymore." Sebastian wouldn't stand a chance if Knox attacked him for this bold demand, but he still said it. "I can only promise you one thing. I will treat her right."

There was silence that ensued after those words, but then the quiet room filled with Knox's chuckle. The way he looked at Sebastian was so cold, but he didn't intend to kill him yet.

"How funny it is… both of you asked the same thing." He remembered how July didn't want to see him again. "Don't worry. She will never see me again," he said earnestly.

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