UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

"I will see you often. This is not an issue for us. You can stay here and manage this place," Chaos said easily to her.

Zuri didn't know where Chaos got this absurd idea that she wanted to stay in this place. Her mouth opened and for a moment, she couldn't come up with anything to say to him.

He was crazy to think that Zuri wanted to be left behind, that too to manage this place.

"Are you out of your mind?" Zuri narrowed her eyes. She could finally find the words and if she could, she really wanted to shake his body so he would come to his senses. Unfortunately, the strength difference between them was too great, such an idea was not possible to implement. "Since when did I like this place until I had any desire to manage it?"

Chaos was so calm when he had to face her rage, which made her feel even more livid.

"I am going with you. No matter what you say, I am going with you," Zuri said stubbornly. She gritted her teeth and balled her fists, to show her determination, while Chaos said nothing. "I don't care what your order is. I am going to Lucinda city, with or without your permission."

If she was adamant about going, there was nothing that Chaos could do to stop her, at the very least, he wouldn't do something that would hurt her.

Seeing how Chaos refused to answer that, Zuri stomped her feet and was about to walk away to prepare herself for this journey, but just as she walked past him, Chaos finally spoke. His voice was devoid of any emotions and this made her slightly concerned.

"You will only resent me." Those were the only words that he could offer.

Zuri stopped dead in her tracks when she heard that.

She would resent him. Did she show it so blatantly? She didn't think she resented him, but at that moment, when she realized that the young boy was Chaos's shattered soul and what kind of thing that would happen to him… she couldn't say that she didn't resent him…

Zuri closed her eyes and spoke through her gritted teeth. "I don't resent you." She would lie until he believed it.

She didn't resent him. And Zuri repeated the same words in her mind again and again, making a confirmation for herself.

"Why should I resent you?" Zuri turned around and a little bit startled when she met his blue eyes. She still balled her fists and said what she was going to say. "This is not the first time I am doing this, why do you think it is going any different from our previous missions?"

Chaos stared at Zuri for a little bit longer before his body gradually faded away from her sight. She cursed under her breath when she realized Chaos decided to avoid her.

"Damn you, Chaos!" Zuri was mad because he ran away from this conversation, just like how he didn't want to talk to her and chose to send her back to this manor when he executed the young boy in the meadow.

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It didn't even take a day before everyone in the Shadow Moon pack realized that Josh had disappeared. He vanished, no one knew where he was, nor did anyone see him since his final shift last night.

At first, they thought he was hiding somewhere or got caught in trouble, but when there was no news after the second day and then the third day, the warriors started to look for him more intensely as there was no sign of his existence anywhere and this made Emily slightly nervous.

Eros stretched out his hand and grabbed hers in an attempt to calm her down. The two of them had just been questioned about Josh; when was the last time they saw him, where were they around the time that they suspected was the last time Josh was seen.

Most of the questions had been answered by Eros, while Emily simply agreed with him or chimed in to add details to his explanation, since it was very clear that the two of them would be in great trouble if they caught onto what they had done.

The warrior who asked the question was not suspicious at all when Eros took all the questions, since both of them were always together and nothing was strange about it.

And because they knew how timid Emily was and how she was struggling to fit in in this pack, they overlooked the way her body was trembling. It was not an uncommon sight for them to see this girl like that.

Therefore, with that thought, they didn't question Eros and Emily further, especially Emily. How could that demure and fearful girl know anything about this?

"Okay, thank you," the warrior said before he left both of them alone.

Only when the guards were no longer near them, Emily sank to her knees and covered her face with both of her hands, while Eros dropped to his knees as well and caressed her head.

"You have done a great job," Eros said, as he complimented her and then glanced at the door, to make sure there was no one listening in on this conversation. "It's okay. Everything will be fine, no one will know about this."

Emily then dropped her hands and hugged him. She wrapped her arms around his neck, sobbing silently. She said nothing, but Eros could feel her fear and started wondering if this was too much for her. But then, he remembered that there were a lot more questions that he needed to ask Xerxes.

Therefore, he couldn't ask for Emily to stop here.

In order to atone for his doings, he hugged her and promised her that he would take care of her, like he always did and wouldn't let anything bad befall on her.

"I promise you, you will be fine, nothing will happen to you. I will protect you." Eros kissed her hair, as he caressed her back to ease her fears. He could feel her nodding against his shoulder.

And when they couldn't find Josh even after ten days, the alpha announced that he had died, because of some attack. They thought Josh encountered some supernatural creature, a trespasser, and they fought. In the end, Josh died and the killer left their territory.

The story was not really believable, but that was the only thing that they could offer for now.

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Zuri had prepared everything in her backpack. She still couldn't find Chaos anywhere and the man refused to come to her. He blatantly avoided her, which only irritated her further.

Therefore, the night before their departure, she went to Knox's room and knocked on the door.

"Leave, I don't want to be bothered." That was the reply that Knox gave to her, which made Zuri narrow her eyes.

However, despite what he said, she entered the room anyway. This made him groan in frustration.

"Didn't I tell you to leave me alone?" He grunted before he continued to chug the bottle of whiskey in his hand. Meanwhile, there were a lot of empty bottles scattered all over this room. He was crazy.

"Oh, I didn't hear you clearly. My bad." Zuri threw a nasty glare at the bottles and then at Knox, who was sitting near the window, while taking another swig from the bottle in his hand. "You know that you can't really get drunk, right? You are just wasting good alcohol."

"Now you can hear me clearly, get out." Knox didn't even look her in the eyes when he said that.

However, it wouldn't be Zuri, if she listened to him and this spited the man. He was irritated by how stubborn this girl could be.

Instead of walking out of the room, Zuri sat down on the sofa, which made Knox finally pay attention to her. His blue eyes told her that he didn't like it.

"Oh, stop being so difficult." Zuri frowned. She leaned her back against the armrest, so she could see Knox.

"What do you want? If you are looking for Chaos, he is not here."

"I will know immediately if he is here." Zuri touched her nose, indicating that she could smell him, thus Knox didn't need to explain to her.

Hearing that didn't make Knox happy at all. If she was not here for Chaos, then she was here to bother him, which was way more troublesome.

"Go away, I don't have time to talk with you," he grumbled and then took another swig of his drink.

Zuri didn't listen to him and started to question him instead. "Where is Chaos? He has been avoiding me," she said.

"If you know that he has been avoiding you, then you should know that you have to stop going after him," Knox replied. He didn't even think before he answered. He just wanted this girl to get out of his bedroom. He wanted to be alone.

And now that he knew they would go to Lucinda city, he felt even more agitated.

He knew that July and Sebastian were there. The city was not like the area under McKeltars' protection. Lucinda city would be a few times bigger than this. But if they were about to scour the area in order to find Chaos's shattered souls, there was no guarantee he wouldn't see her.

Knox closed his eyes. He had been avoiding her like a plague, even her name was never mentioned again, as if the two of them had vanished, like they never even existed in the first place.

"I can't do that," Zuri replied pathetically.

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