UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

River had watched everything that unfolded, even though she didn't know what was going on, but she was sure Zuri knew that man. She was staring at him, as if that man was a ghost.

"Did you meet someone? I saw you staring at someone and you just stood there… stupefied." She looked at Zuri's expression and now she was very sure that something was the matter between the two of them. "You want to drink?" She saw the can of beer in Zuri's lap. "You can't. We will go to the café, right?"

However, Zuri didn't care about that silly café. "River. Don't tell anyone about it." She grabbed her hand and looked at her sternly. "Don't even talk about what you saw earlier."

River blinked her eyes. She didn't understand this sudden change in her, but she nodded anyway. "Okay." She looked at Zuri stealthily, but she couldn't say what was in her mind, she couldn't even ask what was going on with her, even though she was very curious.

"How are you feeling? Are you fine now?" Zuri looked at River, checking on her briefly. "Can you drive?"

Zuri didn't think that she could drive right now. She didn't even want to try, because all she wanted to do was to go back to the hotel and think about this whole situation alone.

"Okay," River replied immediately and then they switched seats.

"Let's go to the café next time. I want to go back to the hotel, is that okay with you?" Zuri closed her eyes and massaged her aching temple.

No. River didn't want to go back to the hotel, but she couldn't say that upon seeing how distraught Zuri was right now. "Okay."

She felt despondent. She wanted to go out with Zuri and hang out with her like she did with Vanesha, but she couldn't do that. Zuri was not as fun as Vanesha. She missed her sister terribly.

She would love to have her here right now. Why did she need to go?

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Emily kept stealing furtive glances at Eros, who was sitting next to her, but not even once did he look in her direction. He fixed his eyes on the road outside of the window, as if he was thinking about something else. He was not in the mood to talk at all.

However, at some point, Eros finally noticed her attempt to talk to him. How could he not when Emily's gaze bore into the back of his head?

"I am fine, you don't need to worry," Eros said, as he turned around. He extended his hand and touched her cheek, in order to calm her down. "You don't need to make that face."

Emily pouted. She wanted to ask what happened earlier and why he looked so distraught, but then she held herself back. This was not the right time to do that, she would ask him about it once they were back in the hotel.

"Okay," Emily replied dejectedly. She looked at Eros and then moved closer to him carefully, she waited for him to reject her advance, but Eros didn't say anything, he was already staring back at the street out there and when Emily rested her head against his shoulder, he didn't make any move at all.

From the rearview mirror, Kyle stared at both of them and then frowned, he was sure that Eros knew that woman, his expression was somewhat familiar. He had seen it twice before this.

It was the expression you would make when you met a ghost, your enemy, your long lost family or… when you found your mate.

The first three were impossible, knowing Eros's history, but the last one… Kyle was sure that was the expression that he saw when his friend found their mate.

But, why didn't he say anything? The white haired woman also said nothing and just walked away. Would his assumption be wrong? Kyle didn't think he was wrong…

"We are here," Colton said, breaking the tension and the quietness in the air, as he pulled the car to a halt in the parking lot.

"A bar?" Kyle frowned when he realized what building was in front of them. "We will meet them here? I thought this would be a formal meeting."

The sky had turned orange and the stars already studded the dusk, as the sun went down when they finally arrived at their meeting point.

The four of them immediately got out of the car once Colton turned off the engine and took their backpacks.

"Stay close to me," Eros said, as he took Emily's backpack and carried it for her.

"Okay," Emily replied happily. She loved his attention and the way he cared for her. With that, she wrapped her hands around his arm and both of them followed Colton and Kyle, who were walking ahead.

Night had not fallen yet, therefore, this bar was not really crowded, they could still move around easily and check their surroundings, but the first thing that they needed to find was an exit. This was their instinct.

Whenever they entered a building, they would need to find the possible exits, how many of them and how to get there quickly.

That was how they were trained.

"This is the first time I entered a bar," Emily mumbled softly. She was surprised when Eros put his arm around her waist and drew her closer, as they entered the bar.

Colton stopped walking and scoured the whole area, as if he was looking for someone and then strode across the dance floor to the corner table, where there was a woman with blonde hair, sitting alone with a bottle of whiskey in front of her.

"You are late." That was the only greeting that the woman gave to them, once they were within earshot.

Colton took a seat next to her in this half circle sofa, while Eros pushed Emily gently to sit on her other side.

Eros sat next to Emily, while Kyle settled down at the far end of the seat, he stretched his long legs and asked for a drink in the next moment.

"We are not drinking here," Colton reminded Kyle, but he just grinned.

"A glass or two will not make me drunk, you don't need to worry about that." Kyle brushed it off easily.

In the end, Colton let him do whatever he wanted and put his focus on the woman next to him.

"She is Vanesha," Colton introduced her to them. "She is one of our people in this city." There was a strange look that Colton gave to Vanesha when he introduced her that way. "Now, let's get down to the business."

Vanesha looked at the three people next to her and her eyes landed on Emily. "So, you are the girl that Ariana talked about?"

Emily was not sure what kind of conversation that Ariana had with her, but she nodded anyway, since they came here to see her.

"Where is it?" Colton asked her impatiently, he wanted to make sure that they got what they wanted. They had to get out of here quickly. This place made him uncomfortable. Not only this place, even this city, because it was full of humans and he didn't really like it.

"You are really impatient," Vanesha grumbled, but she took out something from her hand bag and placed it on the table. "This is what we promised you."

On the table, there was a small tube filled with orange liquid. Its size was not bigger than a pinky finger and it looked harmless.

Vanesha glanced at Emily, who didn't do anything about it. "What are you doing? Don't you want to check on it?"

"Ah." Emily snapped out of her reverie and then took something out of her bag. She pulled out two tubes and a snippet and then grabbed the orange tube on the table to mix the liquids.

"You are so young to be a healer," Vanesha commented, as she checked on her. "How old are you? Eighteen? Seventeen?"

"You don't need to know," Eros said sharply, he glared at Vanesha, but she didn't even flinch to receive such hostility from the young lycan.

"Okay." Vanesha raised her hands and leaned her back, as she stared at what Emily was doing. She was concentrating right now and seemed to know what exactly she was doing. "If you join us, you will have a better future, don't you want to be with your own kind?"

Emily threw her a glare, but then she immediately lowered her head to conceal her dislike. They had not yet met for more than ten minutes, but she already disliked her.

"No, thank you," she said immediately, because she didn't want Eros to think about it, since he had talked about the same thing this afternoon. "I don't want to go anywhere."

"Oh, so the pack members treat you well." The way she spoke was full of mockery.

"Yes," Emily replied, she looked at the tubes and fixed her attention on what she was doing, determined to ignore Vanesha.

On the other hand, Vanesha's phone vibrated inside her hand bag and she took it out only to find a message from someone. She checked on it briefly and frowned, as she stole a furtive glance at Eros.

"So, you are the lycan in the pack," Vanesha said, as she put down her phone. "My people just confirmed it."

Eros glanced at her, but said nothing.

"Why don't we try this on him to make sure whether it is working or not?" Vanesha suggested. "We need someone to try it after all."

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