UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

"Good morning, father," Emma greeted Liam. She looked at her father with her brilliant golden eyes that never failed to make Liam feel anxious.

Every time Liam looked at her eyes, he would be reminded of that devil. How he had made a deal with him and also what he wanted from him.

But then, he couldn't gauge how he would proceed to make his little girl his bride one day.

"Good morning, honey," Liam said in a soft voice, as he crouched down to scoop her small body into his arms. "Where is your brother?" he asked her, tilting his head toward their bedroom, but Aidan's bed was empty, the little boy was already up. "Is he in the bathroom?"

Emma shook her head. She looked at her father innocently. "Aidan was up an hour back," she said in her soft voice that sounded very childish. "I think he is in mother's bedroom, playing with Kenna again."

Her words ended on a sad note, implying her twin preferred to play with their little sister without even asking her again. He always left her behind.

But, more importantly, their father had explicitly told them not to go near their mother and sister, because they were sick and needed more rest, which was bullshit.

Aiden didn't really care about that, because he desired to have a motherly figure. As for Emma, she knew what was going on, though she looked like a clueless little angel.

"Are you looking for Aiden, father?" She wound her small arms around her father's neck, as she watched Liam's expression turn grim gradually. "Shall we go to mother's bedroom?"

Yet, the little girl scrunched her brows as if she didn't like to go there. After all, Jasmine would only snap at her. There was even one time she chucked a flower vase at her head.

If it was not for her agility, she would have sustained a great injury at that time.

"No need," Liam said knowingly and then set her down. "I will fetch him from there and then start training, you can go and play with your friends."

Emma pouted her lips and then kissed her father, as she nodded obediently. "I will go to see Abby," she said. Abby was one of the pack member's children, a little girl around her age.

She appeared so innocent and beautiful, she was what you would call a daddy's little girl. If only she was not promised to the devil, Liam would be glad to have such an intelligent and sensible little girl like her.

And with that, Liam walked away toward Jasmine's bedroom, or he could say; their bedroom, but it had been so long since the last time Liam slept on that bed.

His relationship with Jasmine could be said as none, because he couldn't remember the last time they talked civilly without growling at each other.

However, even so, Liam couldn't let her go. The fact that she had betrayed him and gave birth to someone else's child was beyond him, yet he couldn't bring himself to toss her out of the pack and let her die out there.

There was something fucked up about this mate bond between them, though the bond should have been cut off years ago, but apparently, it was still bothering him.

Jasmine was visibly aged, the corners of her eyes and the corners of her mouth were now adorned with wrinkles. She was no longer the beautiful, fiery woman, who used to lead a thousand men to slay supernatural creatures.

She had aged into an ordinary woman with the burden of depression and anger problems. She was unhinged and sometimes, you wouldn't even understand what she was blabbering about.

It was disheartening to see how a beautiful, strong and smart woman like her ended up like that and all of that was on Liam. He was the only person that you could blame for that. He tormented her mentally.

He broke every piece of her confidence and hope, leaving her alone with her shattered faith that someone would come to save her, because even until now, no one had come for her.

She was abandoned by her own people and Liam would emphasize that again and again. How everyone left her alone, including Darius. He died and all she had right now was that stupid daughter of hers that she kept next to her, just to spite Liam.

As a human, Jasmine had been broken beyond repair, nothing could fix her, yet Liam still had this damn attachment to her.

"Is Aidan inside?" Liam asked the two guards in front of the door.

"Yes, Alpha, Emily took him in an hour ago," one of the guards informed him and then opened the door for him. As soon as he stepped inside, he could hear Aiden and Kenna's laughter.

He still couldn't understand why Aiden was close to Kenna instead of his own twin. He would sneak here whenever he got a chance and Liam would allow him to do so.

Perhaps, deep down, he always wished for Jasmine to come around. For that woman to give the slightest bit of attention to their son.

However, seven years rolled by and there was never a time when she had genuinely cared for the twins. Emma had given up on having any relationship with Jasmine, but Aiden was still persistent.

"It's time to train," Liam said as he approached the children, who were playing with empty bottles in a corner of this room.

This bedroom smelled like a dirty bar, where you could find empty bottles of alcohol scattered around here, since Jasmine would demand to drink it like water and get drunk or sleep all the time.

Liam glanced over his shoulder to see Jasmine was sleeping with a blanket covering her whole body while her disheveled hair covered her face. She didn't even wake up when these two children made so much noise.

Out of instinct, Liam walked over to her bedside and put his finger under her nose to feel her warm breath, making sure that she was still alive.

"Let's go," Liam said to Aiden, who was waving his hand at Kenna. The girl looked at him with sad eyes before she directed her eyes at Liam and asked him with a small voice.

"Can I go with you?" she stared at him expectantly, so did Aiden.

Yet, there was not a single bone of pity in Liam, for him to stand the sight of this child. If he could, he wanted to throw this little girl to the dogs.

"No," Liam replied curtly, as he took Aiden's hand and then walked out of the room.

The answer was expected and the little girl should know about that, but she still burst into tears when she watched her father take her brother to have fun outside there, while she had to be with her mother.

Right now, her mommy was sleeping and even when she was up, she wouldn't bother to play with her, while the two guards out there were so mean to her.

Kenna could even feel it when they looked at her as if she was a brat.

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"Do you want to go to the village?" Chaos asked, the village was only a few minutes by foot and they could take a look at the place that they visited six years ago, but Zuri shook her head no.

Yes, the place was nice and all, but the memories of it were tainted by the death of that old lady. She didn't want to go there and walk past her small store.

Their encounter was short, but she couldn't shake the memory out of her mind.

"No," Zuri replied curtly, she didn't give any explanation. "Can we go home now?" She turned around to look at Chaos.

They were here because they needed to check on the tree, just in case it acted up like years ago, when people became so aggressive and wouldn't even bother to think twice before they killed each other.

Chaos and Knox believed Aaron would use the tree when the time came. The devil would use it in whatever plan that he was cooking up right now, as three years had gone by uneventfully without any news about him.

Hades also stopped coming to give them warnings and this quietness felt unsettling.

For now, Chaos was fine. He could teleport both of them across the island, thus coming to this place was not a big deal for them.

They used to go somewhere far away just to scour the area, in an attempt to find his shattered souls. Zuri had no idea how many more people or shattered souls that they needed to find until it was finally over.

But from what Chaos told them, he still needed around twenty three percent of it before everything was completed, yet how many people that would be?

However, just before they were about to leave that place, Zuri felt it. She could smell his scent, coming from the direction of the wind.

Therefore, hastily, she shook off her hand out of his grip and told him that she could feel his shattered soul nearby.

Zuri's heart sank to her stomach when she figured out where the scent of Chaos's shattered soul came from.

"That one," Zuri said in a placid tone, but her hazel's eyes were casted down, while she raised her hand to point at a family of four, who were having a picnic not too far from where they were standing.

An emotion that she had tried to suppress came to the surface. She hated doing this.

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