UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

Emily felt someone shake her body, and then heard Eros's voice calling her name.

"Emily, wake up, we need to leave now." Eros shook her shoulders to wake her up. She fell asleep an hour ago, she must be exhausted because she was not used to such long journeys.

Emily opened her eyes and rubbed her face groggily, she was a little bit disoriented and wanted to sleep a little bit longer. The journey was truly exhausting. Though all she did was just sit in the car, somehow, her whole body ached so badly.

"We need to leave in ten minutes," Eros told her. He had prepared everything and once Emily woke up, she just needed to wash her face and put on her jacket.

"Ah!" Emily immediately sat down and looked startled. Ten minutes?! "I have not yet made any preparations!" she said in panic, but Eros ruffled her hair calmly.

"I have prepared everything for you, now wash your face and we can leave." Eros nodded toward her backpack. This time, it was a smaller one than the ones that they brought. Inside the backpack, there were all the things that Emily needed. Eros had asked her before she fell asleep.

"Oh, thank you," Emily said sheepishly, she felt like she was not competent enough to take care of herself, but then there was not a moment when Eros didn't take care of her.

"Wash your face," Eros said again, as he tied his shoelaces.

"Okay." Emily got off the bed, but before she closed the bathroom door, she stole a glance at him. He didn't look disturbed, he looked very calm, as usual and this made her feel uneasy.

Emily remembered what she had done before she fell asleep while Eros played with her hair. She was very nervous when she kissed him and felt like her chest was about to burst. She didn't even dare to look him in the eye and thought Eros would feel the same way as her.

But it seemed that wasn't the case with Eros. He looked like his normal self. He didn't look embarrassed or nervous or anything, as if nothing had happened between them.

Or maybe it was only her over-thinking things? Maybe Eros felt something, but because he was used to hiding his feelings, he didn't show it to her?

But, it would be nice if what happened between them slightly bothered him, in a good way of course.

Emily splashed water on her face and slapped her cheeks, as she looked at her own reflection in the mirror.

She was asking for too much. Eros not rejecting her advances was already a good thing for her, so why did she have to whine?

Eros must have had the same feeling as her, it was Eros that they were talking about after all. He was very good at putting on a poker face.

She knew him more than anyone, because they only had each other.

"Put this on." Eros gave her a jacket and then waited patiently for her at the doorway until she put on her shoes.

"Okay, I am ready to go," Emily said, as she approached Eros and hugged his arm. This would be fine, right? Touching him like this wouldn't make him uncomfortable, right?

Emily lifted her head and looked at Eros gingerly, but he didn't show any sign of discomfort and this made her smile.

She felt like a teenager, who fell in love for the first time.

Oh, she was a teenager and this was her first love…

Emily just remembered that. After all, it was hard to think that she was like any other teenager around her age when she had gone through so much.

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"I need to take a pee," Kyle said, moving about uncomfortably in his seat, while Eros drove the car and Emily was sitting next to him.

"You should have gone to the restroom before we set off," Eros literally growled at him because he didn't want to pull over.

"I drank too much, I have gone to the restroom before," Kyle grumbled in a low voice, he didn't dare to raise his voice at Eros, even though he was upset right now.

"There is a convenience store in front of us, we can pull over there for a while," Colton said, he didn't want to have another fight inside the car. "I need to buy something to drink too." He didn't want to buy anything, but he did this to appease Eros's agitation. "Do you want to buy something Emily?"

Emily shook her head and then looked at Eros. "We will wait inside the car."

And with that, Eros pulled the car over and Kyle and Colton went to the convenience store, while he waited with Emily inside the car.

"Who do you think we will meet?" Emily asked, she fiddled with the strap of her backpack, as she looked outside, she was fascinated with this city. This place was beautiful, especially when all the street lamps illuminated the road and there were many people roaming about in this area.

Compared to their pack, this place was way more advanced.

"I don't know. Colton only said that she is someone that will give us an important thing that you need to check." Eros tilted his head and then looked at her closely. "Is that serum the thing that you are working on with Ariana?"

Emily nodded. She just knew about it when Colton told them about this mission. She and Ariana were talking about something missing in their experiment and who would have known that the alpha took this matter into his hands personally, so they could find it faster.

"Did you actually know why Liam wants to create a serum that can kill the beast for a shifter?" Eros looked at his surroundings and found a street stall that sold grilled sausages. Emily loved this kind of food.

"No." She shook her head and tugged her hair nervously. "I don't know why the alpha wants us to research on something like this." Emily then looked at Eros. "You don't think he wants to hurt you, right?"

There was no way she wanted to continue this project if it could hurt Eros.

Hearing that, Eros raised his brows and tousled her hair, while smiling. "Why do you think Liam wants to hurt me?"

Emily loved the way he smiled at her, but she didn't like it when Eros took this matter lightly. "Because… I think… you are stronger than him now."

Eros was surprised to hear that, he looked at her as if asking her to explain what she was saying earlier.

"I don't know, maybe it is a biased opinion of mine." Emily really thought this was just her biased judgment. "But, I think you are way stronger than the alpha."

Was he really stronger than the alpha? If he was stronger…

Eros clenched his jaw. That was a dangerous thought. He couldn't go there, because if he entertained himself with that thought, he would think about it more seriously, since that idea had already flashed in his mind even before Emily said anything.

"Don't talk like that in front of others, they will misunderstand you and you will be in trouble." He didn't want to see her in trouble because of this.

"Of course not."

Eros nodded. "Good."

"Where are you going?" Emily was surprised when Eros opened the car door.

"Stay put, I will buy that for you." Eros nodded at the food stall next to the convenience store.

If it was not for Eros, who mentioned it, she wouldn't even realize it, but right now, her eyes were gleaming with eagerness.

"Ah, I want that!" she said joyfully.

"I know." Eros smiled and walked over to the stall.

However, when he was just about to reach the stall, that scent hit him hard. He needed to halt his steps and out of instinct, he started to look for the source of this scent.

And there she was, a woman with white hair, her hazel eyes stared at him and it struck him like a lightening when both of them realized what was happening between them.

Without them realizing it, the word formed on their lips, as they whispered it like the most beautiful word that they could say, yet it was terrifying the moment reality hit them hard.

"Mate."

The word was simple and brought a lot of meaning to a shifter's life, but it was not that way for both of them, because it only complicated the thing between them. It would be more complicated than anything that they had gone through.

The woman with white hair shook her head, she looked mortified, so did Eros. He had never felt so afraid in his entire life like right now, even though he was not sure what he had to be afraid of.

Was this the uncertainty in the future?

Both of them just stood there without saying anything and stared at each other, as if there were no people around them. Everything ceased to exist and time stopped.

Eros wanted to approach her, but he didn't know what to say to her, because they shouldn't be together. This silly bond pulled them in too hard.

They should know this since the very beginning, right? They were mates, the pull was there when they just met for the first time seven years ago, but this encounter was something that Eros had never thought of before.

"What are you doing?" Colton approached Eros with Kyle right behind him.

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