UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

"After that, can we see mommy?" Aiden looked at Emily expectantly.

On the other hand, Emily didn't understand why Aiden wanted to see Jasmine even though she always treated him coldly. He always had this bright and happy expression on his face. He was a softie, even though he was the alpha's child.

It was hard to see the shadow of his parents on him and that was a great thing. It seemed he managed to get whatever little kindness and lovely side both Liam and Jasmine had. One could say that part was hard to find, knowing how wicked they were.

"Sure." Emily took his little hand and then led them away from there. She glanced one more time over her shoulder and then continued chatting lightly with Aiden until they arrived at the dining hall.

Ever since Emily showed she had some value by succeeding being Ariana's apprentice and gotten her skills acknowledged by the alpha, she started to grow confidence and her self esteem was not as low as in the past few years, even with that glaring scar on her face.

Emily found solace in the company of Eros, as he always told her how much he loved her and how he would never see her differently.

Somehow, it was not something that they often talked about. It was more like a tacit understanding between them that they would end up together. They were together and not like a brother and sister, like they used to be in the past.

Emily saw Eros as a man, so did he…

"Can I come see you sometime when you are doing your experiment?" Aiden asked innocently, as he ate a mouthful of the porridge in front of him.

There were a few people in this dining hall of the house pack and all of them minded their own business, but only because they didn't have anything to do or talk to Emily.

The people in this pack were no longer hostile toward Emily, but they didn't warm up to her either, which was fine by her because she didn't need them to start exchanging pleasantries with her out of nowhere.

"Sure, if your father allows you to come, you can come anytime you want," Emily said softly to him and grabbed a tissue to dab at his mouth, but she could also see how his expression turned sour.

"Father will not like it," Aiden replied sadly, he lowered his head because he felt dejected.

Emily knew why the alpha didn't want him to come and see her and Ariana, because he thought that was not necessary and only a waste of time, since he should start to train. After all, he was the first son of the alpha and it went without saying, he would be next in line for the alpha's position.

Liam had started to bring him to the training ground already.

"Maybe you can ask him after your training, I don't think he will mind it, as long as you don't skip the training," Emily suggested and this cheered him up a little.

"Yes, I will do that," Aiden said joyfully and then continued to eat his breakfast again.

Today, Emily was going with Ariana to a nearby city because they ran out of some herbs and would only return this afternoon if they could collect everything.

Therefore, after Emily took Aiden to see Jasmine, she needed to go to their meeting point immediately, so they would be able to return before it was too dark.

"I don't think your mother is awake," Emily said to Aiden, after she asked the guards, who were guarding outside the alpha's bedroom.

Emily didn't understand why Liam still had this urge to put two guards in front of the bedroom, as if Jasmine would run away. She didn't think the woman had any desire to escape from this place any more.

She was… a little bit out of touch with reality…

Jasmine gave birth to her third child, whom she named Kenna. There was a lot of complications, which almost took her life, but Emily and Ariana worked on it together and the two of them managed to save Jasmine and her daughter.

Due to her age and the complications during giving birth to Kenna, Jasmine would be in great danger if she were to get pregnant again, especially because she was no longer young.

Ever since then, Liam rarely visited his bedroom to see Jasmine. The Luna looked like an abandoned mistress, a woman whose existence had been forgotten by the alpha, but then he let her stay inside their bedroom, while Liam would occupy a different room.

Not only that, despite everything that hinted he no longer cared about her, he still put two guards in front of the bedroom.

"Mommy," Aiden called Jasmine, as he entered the room, while Emily followed him.

Usually, Jasmine would pretend that she didn't see him, or she would blatantly ignore him. It would never fail to make Emily grimace at Aiden's efforts to see his mother, despite the way she treated him.

"Mommy," Aiden called her again. "I brought breakfast for you." He was holding a small bowl of porridge, because he thought the porridge today was delicious and he wanted her to try it.

However, it was not Jasmine, who woke up, but Kenna. The little girl, who just turned five years old last month, rubbed her sleepy face. She was sleeping with Jasmine, because she insisted on having her daughter with her.

It was only Kenna that she cared about, as for the twins, Jasmine didn't think they even existed.

"Mommy is still sleeping," Kenna said, she yawned and then curled her body under the blanket again, but the smell of porridge seemed to catch her attention, as she blinked in curiosity.

Kenna and Aiden were on good terms and always played together, usually when Jasmine ignored him completely, he would play with Kenna instead.

But, because Liam was taking him to the training ground often lately, the little boy had little to no time to play with his sister.

Emily was still curious as to why he didn't get close to his own twin. She rarely saw them together if it was not for a formal occasion, where they should be seen together.

Meanwhile, Kenna would always be left behind, because Liam hated her with passion and Emily could understand why. It was not a secret anymore for certain people that Kenna was not his daughter.

However, for other people, it was simply because the alpha preferred his boy rather than his girls, which was common among them.

"I will leave you here, okay?" Emily said softly to Aiden, as the little boy carried the porridge over to Kenna.

"Okay," he said happily.

Before Emily left, she glanced at Jasmine, who was still sleeping. She spent most of her time sleeping. Sometimes, she would even forget to eat and bathe…

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The sleet last night was over, but now the sky was still dark, even though at this hour the sun should have peeked from behind the horizon, which made the room feel colder than usual.

However, it didn't trouble Zuri, because she had Chaos's arms wrapped around her body, as both of them laid down on the bed.

Chaos was still fast asleep and seemingly wouldn't wake up for another hour, as he came very late last night, from wherever he went with Knox.

Gingerly, Zuri turned her body around to look at his face. He looked exactly like the man that she met twenty one years ago. In this life, they managed to stay together this far. There was nothing that made Zuri feel relieved than to wake up by his side like this.

The gloomy sky didn't make her feel down at all. To be honest, Zuri liked this weather. The dark sky, the cold atmosphere and also the warmth from the man that she loved.

Zuri snuggled closer to him.

There were a lot of things that happened in the past six years, but the fact that they were still together right now put her at ease. They would face everything that came their way one by one, until nothing was left and they could finally live the way they wanted.

However, it was still a question as to why Aaron didn't cause any trouble for the last three years. Even the Ahega's cocoons were no longer developing. Although they couldn't be cleaned completely from the tree of life's trunk, that was still a relief, because the effect of it was massive, since people around that island would act more aggressive than usual.

That was because the tree of life was affected.

Yet, they didn't say it out loud. They knew this was just silence before the storm. They could tell Aaron was plotting something in silence.

Zuri pushed herself up and then kissed Chaos's chin, but the man was still fast asleep, not even aware of what she did.

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"Morning," Zuri greeted Darius, who was eating his breakfast. He lifted his head to see her walk into the kitchen and prepare her own meal.

"You look awful," Darius said.

"That's an insult coming from you," Zuri retorted, but didn't care much about his opinion.

Darius was not a bad person once you got to know him better, but he could still be a nuisance sometimes, with his obsession to raid the Shadow Moon pack or when he tried his best to make Zuri take revenge on Liam, knowing she had a dispute with that Alpha, just like him.

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