UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

Eros felt complicated when he came with Emily to this city, the city where all the humans lived. He wanted to let her go, but at the same time, he was long used to being with her. He couldn't even remember when he didn't have her around.

And to think that he wouldn't be able to see her made him slightly upset, but nevertheless, he still offered her that choice.

"You don't need to go back to the pack if you…" the words came out of his mouth just like that.

But, Eros had not yet finished his words when Emily hugged him from behind, she rested her head on his shoulder, while her long hair cascaded down. "You know that's impossible. The alpha will not stay put if he knows I want to stay."

Emily knew a lot of secrets of the pack and was working on a secret experiment with Ariana, thus it was slim to no chance for the alpha to let her go without any scrupulousness.

Moreover, not only that…

Emily didn't have any intention to leave Eros, even if she had the chance, she wouldn't go anywhere without him.

"I can handle that. I will find a way to take care of it," Eros promised her. If she really wanted to stay among her kind, he would do everything he could do to make that happen.

"Stop it!" Emily lifted her head and shot him a dagger look, while her eyes welled with tears. "Don't say anything like that again. I will not go anywhere without you."

Eros was surprised when he saw her strong reaction, this was the first time for Emily to raise her voice at him, but he understood why she was very upset right now.

"Okay, I am sorry," Eros said lightly, he caressed her head to soothe her annoyance and calmed her down a bit.

"Don't talk about sending me away ever again," Emily whimpered. "I feel like you want to abandon me."

Both of them had been abandoned and only had each other for years, therefore, the word had a very strong meaning for them, in a bad way of course.

"I am sorry, I will never say that again," Eros apologized sincerely to her and wiped away her tears. Her face was flushed red, because she was holding back her emotions. "I will never leave you."

"Promise me."

Eros smiled softly and nodded. "Promise."

Emily wrapped her arms around Eros's neck and then hugged him even tighter, while he caressed her head gently, but then she moved her body to the front and ended up straddling him.

Seeing this position, Eros furrowed his brows slightly. He was not comfortable, but Emily was still upset. He didn't want to agitate her further, so he sat there and waited to see what she wanted to do.

On the other hand, Emily seemed nervous, she bit her lip and stole a glance at Eros, but the man didn't do anything to her. He indeed held her so she wouldn't fall off his lap, but he didn't make any movement.

"Do you love me?" Emily asked him, but her voice came out as a pleading,like a desperate affirmation that Eros wouldn't leave her.

"Yes, I do," Eros answered almost immediately, he didn't even take time to think about the answer first, as if that was an automatic reply for such a question from her.

Emily became even more apprehensive now. She looked at Eros timidly through her wet lashes, yet he didn't show any emotion. The way he looked at her was always the same.

"If you aren't comfortable, sit here…" Eros patted on the spot next to him when Emily started fidgeting, but she did something that he didn't expect at all.

Closing her eyes, Emily leaned over and pressed her lips against his for a brief second, but her heart felt like it was going to explode from all the tension.

Emily opened her eyes again and found Eros staring at her, but her mind didn't work really well. She couldn't tell whether he was angry at her or not.

"Are you… are you angry?" Emily asked him carefully. Her hands balled into tight fists on Eros's shoulders, while his were resting on her hips.

"Why should I be?" His voice was really calm and gentle, like the quiet surface of a lake.

"Because…" Emily gulped down, she felt like she wanted to cry. "Because I kissed you." She felt like she was going to die when she said that, yet there was no change in Eros's expression.

"You kissed me before." He referred to what she had done that night, when they visited Xerxes. She kissed him as well that time.

"Oh, right…" Emily tugged on her hair nervously. "You don't like it?"

"When you kissed me?"

Emily really wanted to end this conversation. Why did he have to emphasize those words? He should have known that, right? He made her feel really embarrassed.

In the end, Emily could only nod, but she couldn't take her eyes off of him, she wanted to see his reaction clearly.

"No, I don't dislike it," Eros replied genuinely.

Hearing that, Emily bit her lip, she didn't know if she could overstep the boundaries between them or not, but she had already gone too far, why didn't she push her luck a little bit more.

Trembling, Emily put her hands beside his face, she waited to see if Eros would finally push her away or not, thus when he didn't do anything, she leaned over, very slowly, which made her heart beat so fast, Eros must have heard it clearly because of the closeness between them.

Emily thought Eros would finally push her away when he realized what her intention was, but he didn't.

And when she was only a breath away from kissing him, she thought this was the right time for him to turn his head and reject her, if he didn't want to do this.

However, he didn't do it. He stayed in the same position. He didn't make any move that indicated he would reject her.

His hands were relaxed on both sides of Emily's hips when she kissed him again. This time, it lingered a little bit longer and Emily could feel his warm breath.

It was an innocent kiss, she just pressed her lips against his, since she didn't know what to do and Eros didn't make any movement or kiss her back, or anything. He just accepted the kiss and that was all.

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"Zuri, I don't want to be here," River said sternly, her eyes hardened when she knew where Zuri drove the car to.

She had told her that she didn't want to visit this place, she wanted to go to the café that she mentioned before, but Zuri insisted that they would just drive past it and wouldn't stop. She just wanted to see the building.

This place was the old headquarters of the Hound and they moved it away to a different sector three years ago and now all that was left was an abandoned building.

Zuri kept her word that she wouldn't stop by. They had only driven past it, but River felt her body stiffen, she remembered all those years when she had been the object of their experiments. She was still having nightmares about that time.

"Let's get out of here," River practically implored her.

Zuri turned her head and saw how pale River was and knew she had pushed her too far. "I am sorry, my mistake. We will go now, okay?" Zuri extended her hand and grabbed hers in order to calm her down.

She could feel how she was trembling and she genuinely felt bad for that. Her hands were so cold and she kept her eyes fixed on her knees, not daring to acknowledge the sight outside of the car.

"I am sorry, River," Zuri said again and squeezed her hand to make sure that she knew she was not alone.

Her intention to check this site was to know what kind of facility the Hound had years ago was. She had encountered the Hound years ago, when they attacked the McKeltar manor and faced off against July's twin sister, Jasmine.

However, aside from that encounter and the frozen lake, also a few meaningless engagements, they actually had different goals and walked on different paths.

Yet, Gael had told her that in the future, there was a huge possibility that they would be clashing against each other, since they were hellbent on hunting Chaos down.

Their ego seemed to have inflated after they managed to subdue the dragon. Occasionally, Zuri would think about Killian and felt bad. She triggered his shift into his beast's form, though the reason behind it was way more complicated. Chaos had warned her beforehand, but she didn't listen to him.

"We are no longer around that site," Zuri informed River. She pulled the car over and checked on her and felt really bad when she saw how pale she was. She wouldn't have brought her along with her if she knew she would react this badly… "Stay here, okay? I will go buy you a drink."

River nodded meekly, she felt her throat was aching so bad. She wanted something fresh to wash down her fear.

With that, Zuri got out of the car and luckily, she had pulled over in front of a small convenience store.

She walked straight to the convenience store, but her steps halted when a certain scent hit her. This made her whole body stiffen. She turned around. She knew this scent really well…

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