UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

"The term mate is used by shifters when they find their other half. But all the supernatural creatures in this realm will agree. Regardless of the term, Zuri is Chaos's mate." Xerxes sighed regretfully. "I really want the white wolf… they are so rare. Rare creatures…" Xerxes sighed with longing in his voice when he said that.

The old, ex alpha still harbored thoughts about the white beast, Zuri and he still thought of her as his prized possession.

"She should have been with Emmet. She should have been with him." He repeated the same thing over and over again.

Probably because there were a lot of things that happened and the ridiculously long time period he was in this dire condition, there seemed to be something wrong with his mind. He was delusional.

"She would have been the luna of this pack if it was not for that stupid son of mine."

Eros knew about Emmet, he was Liam's older brother and the rightful heir that was supposed to be the alpha of this pack.

The story about him was a little bit complicated because there were a lot of versions of his untimely death.

"What did Liam do?" Eros asked him. He glanced at his watch and he still had around ten minutes more before he needed to get out of this place, since he didn't want Emily to get into trouble for this. "Tell me what he had done?"

The ex alpha cackled when he heard that, as if his question sounded so funny and looked at Eros as if he was an idiot to ask something like that.

"He killed his own brother and tricked his mate." The answer came out as a whisper.

"His mate?" Eros didn't recall that Emmet had a mate before his death from the information that he had gathered. "Who is his mate?"

Xerxes clicked his tongue and this annoyed Eros. "You don't know? How slow you are…" he furrowed his brows.

"Tell me, who is his mate?" Eros had this sinking feeling about who could be his mate, but he wanted to hear it from Xerxes.

"Who else? Of course, the white wolf!" he gasped for air because he was too excited. Probably he was a little bit crazy, but his memory didn't fail him. "He marked her, of course, she is his mate!"

Eros seethed when he heard that. His feelings toward the white haired girl that he met years ago increased significantly over the time after he passed sixteen years old, even though they had never met again after the catastrophe in the Kalee city.

"He marked her forcefully?" Blood rushed in his veins, as his claws emerged from the tips of his fingers, he was ready to end his suffering right here and then.

"Yes," he said, chuckling, as if that was something funny. "She will never be able to go anywhere with that mark. She will be the luna of this pack. Everything will be perfect!" Xerxes hummed in delight when he remembered that moment.

"And then, what happened after that?" Eros asked again, his icy voice echoed inside this room, which smelled like rotten fish. "Why did Emmet die?"

The question seemed to set him off, as Xerxes started to growl when his happy image sank to a memory that he didn't want to remember, the time when he thought everything was perfect and went as he had planned, but then everything crumbled right before his feet.

Yet, before Xerxes could answer that Emily had entered the room, she looked a little bit panicked, as she put her finger in front of her lips to make Eros and Xerxes stop talking. "There is a guard out there," she said cautiously and then rushed across the room to reach for Xerxes.

Emily then stuffed something into Xerxes's mouth and poured water in his mouth, forcing him to swallow it.

"This will make him sleep," Emily explained lightly and after she said that, Xerxes had closed his eyes. "I forgot to make it into an injection, so he needs to swallow it orally."

She was dissatisfied with her lack of preparation because she was too nervous thinking about tonight, especially when she saw a guard come in this direction.

"We need to leave now," Emily whispered to Eros, but he stopped her from walking away.

"The guard is coming closer," Eros said, he could smell his scent and hear his footsteps that were getting closer to the door.

"I know where we can hide," Emily said quickly, she was in panic, her eyes fixed on the door, as if waiting for someone to walk in anytime soon.

"We can't hide. He knows we are here." Eros walked toward the door, as the other man came closer from the other side of it.

Emily just remembered about their scents. She forgot this variable. Someone could pick up their scents and then follow them here. Just like what Eros said, there was no use in hiding when the other person could point out where they were right now.

"What will you do?" Emily asked in horror when she saw Eros just stand in front of the door, waiting for the other person to walk in on his own volition.

Yet, Eros didn't answer her, because he needed to focus and end this without any noises, because if his scream invited the other guards, they would be doomed. Emily would be in danger.

Moreover, there were more Eros wanted to hear from that shitty old man, this was not the right time to get caught.

"Emily," Eros called her name icily, as he glanced at her over his shoulder. "Breath."

On the other hand, Emily didn't realize that she had been holding back her breath.

"Close your eyes and ears and don't make any sound." Eros stared at her, waiting for her to do as he said. "Do it now."

Emily was used to doing whatever Eros told her without asking further questions, therefore, she did exactly that. She covered her ears and then shut her eyes, to prevent herself from acknowledging what would happen next, because what Eros would do was something gruesome that was not in their plan at all.

Once the door was opened, Eros immediately charged forward and palmed the man's face. As soon as he pushed him against the wall, there was a loud cracking sound that could be heard, echoing throughout this room.

However, before he could cry for help, he had vomited blood and the next cracking sound was coming from his skull.

Eros crushed his face with one hand. He was not sure, but his strength increased tremendously once he reached sixteen.

It was almost like he could crush someone with his bare hands, just like what he did right now.

The sound of the dying young man was grueling and if Emily were to see this, she would have thrown up by now.

And once Eros was sure that the young man had died, he identified this man as Josh, one of Derek's friends, who bullied Emily in the past.

Once he recognized him, the shred of guilt that Eros had for him disappeared. He would kill him eventually, if he did something outrageous to Emily again, unfortunately, he had been behaving well ever since the death of Derek.

Eros then walked toward the adjoining bathroom there and washed his hand, before he walked toward the cabinet and then pulled out a brown blanket from there to cover the dead body of Josh.

He was severely injured and half of his face was crushed, even his healing ability couldn't keep up with this kind of injury to preserve his life.

There was no shifter that could do such a thing and for now, there was no one who knew about this monstrous ability of his.

After that, Eros walked toward Emily and tapped on her shoulder. You could see blood on the floor, but the worst part was covered under the blanket.

"I want you to make the same potion like you did when you made the dead rabbit disappear. Can you do it?" Eros asked her calmly.

Emily was not clueless about what he was asking for or what had transpired, but still, seeing someone under the brown blanket made her nauseated.

"Who… w-who is that?" she was stammering. She couldn't imagine what Eros had done to him to kill him that fast, even though he was a shifter. Did he not struggle or fight back?

"He is Josh," Eros told her, he didn't have any intention to lie to her.

Emily gasped, she felt her heart thump in her ears.

"Breath, Emily," Eros told her, because she was hyperventilating now. He turned her body around, so she didn't need to see the dead body of Josh. He hugged her trembling body. "Can you make the same potion from that time?" Eros asked her again when she was a little bit calm.

Emily remembered what kind of potion that she made before, actually that was a mistake, the potion was so strong and one drop of it would be able to make a rabbit evaporate into thin air.

Emily immediately realized what Eros wanted to do and she whimpered at that realization.

"We can't let them find his body, or else, we will be in trouble big time," Eros told her calmly, his voice soothing to her ears, only if she didn't know the context of their conversation, she would love to hear him talking more. "Can you do it?"

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