UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

Zuri woke up and couldn't find Chaos beside her, it was still dark outside and it seemed she didn't sleep that long.

She stretched her body and touched the warm spot, where Chaos slept, which indicated he just left not so long ago, probably because of that Zuri was woken up. His scent still lingered on the pillow that he used and this calmed her down.

Zuri hugged the pillow and buried her face in it. As she breathed in his scent, she wanted him to be here with her again and hold her for the rest of the night, but he left…

Where did he go? She didn't want to be left alone without him at this moment.

Probably, she was just being clingy right now, but she couldn't help it, her mind was a mess and she needed him to ease her anxiety.

With that thought, she took a long whiff of his scent from the pillow and then got off the bed. She took her dress from the floor and then straightened her messy hair for a moment before she walked past the mirror.

Zuri frowned when she touched her white hair and clicked her tongue as she combed her fingers through the tangles.

After she looked a little bit presentable, she walked out of the bedroom toward Knox's room. She was sure, if there was someone, who knew where Chaos was, it would be Knox or Gael.

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[Tell me what is it about?] Eros mind linked Colton, something that he rarely did because he didn't really like to hold a conversation if it was not necessary, thus there was nothing that he needed to talk about in secret.

Eros glanced at Colton, but the gamma pretended that he heard nothing and this only raised Eros's suspicion that there was something going on. Something that Colton couldn't say and let them know.

He grabbed Emily's hand tightly and became more alert to his surroundings, for a moment his encounter with Zuri was forgotten. There was someone that he needed to protect. Someone that he couldn't afford to lose.

Feeling the tension from Eros, Emily crept closer to him. Even she herself could feel that something was wrong, though she couldn't say what it was.

She squeezed Eros's hand and he squeezed hers back to reassure her. This was their habit whenever they couldn't talk to each other.

On the other hand, Vanesha and Colton were walking ahead of them and they didn't utter a single word, they kept this silence between them.

There was something going on for sure.

For now, they were heading to the third floor of this bar, where the loud music, which indicated the peak hours had started on the first floor, couldn't be heard. It was rather quiet there, probably because this floor was sound proofed.

"I am here with our partner," Vanesha said to a man, who was standing right in front of a door. He scrutinized them briefly and then nodded. After that, he opened the door for Vanesha and the rest of them.

This room was not big, but it was sufficient to hold a meeting with eight to ten people. Right in the middle of the room, there was a long table with eight chairs surrounding it, where there were two people, who had been waiting for them. They stood up from their seats and nodded at them curtly, as a greeting.

"There is no shifter here," Eros said. He could tell right away that the two men were human.

Meanwhile, the man that was standing at the door walked into the room as well after Kyle, who was walking behind them all.

"Where is the shifter?" Eros directed this question toward Colton, his instinct told him there would be no shifter that would come into this room.

There were three shifters here and he guessed…

"What are you doing!?" Kyle snapped at the man, who was guarding the door earlier, as he raised his hand and frowned at the bracelet that he put on his wrist when he didn't notice. "What is this?" Kyle looked at the bracelet and then realized what it was.

This was the bracelet that would stop a shifter from shifting to their beast. He saw this item being used by the members of the Hound, they used this when they attacked their pack before.

"What do you mean by this?" Kyle felt something bad would happen to him, so did Eros.

"Is this your and Liam's plan?" Eros eyed Colton, he pushed Emily behind him, though the danger was not directed at her, since she was a human, but the fact that Liam had a cooperation with the Hound was astounding.

Didn't he hate them? He held Jasmine captive for years in the form of revenge, since she was the daughter of their leader, but what was this?

Eros directed his attention toward Vanesha and the two men that had been waiting for them in this room.

No way…

He recognized one of the men. He was Sol, Jasmine's younger brother, who led the Hound right now, but why did they have a cooperation with them?

This must be a secret project that Liam did with Colton, something that he didn't care about, since he tried to have less interaction with the alpha, even though he was his beta.

"You don't need to worry," Sol said, as he walked closer to Kyle. For a moment, he glanced toward Eros, fully aware that he was their experimental object that had escaped from their facility years ago, since there were not many lycans in this world. "You can relax."

"Relax!?" Kyle snapped at him. He roared in anger, as he tried to attack the man, if he could, he would have shifted into his beast, but the bracelet prevented him from doing so. "What do you mean by 'relax'?! You want me to be your guinea pig!? Colton, will you not do anything about it?!"

Kyle was riled up to see his situation. But then, he saw the gamma didn't do anything. Only then did he realize that he had planned all of this since the very beginning.

That was why, there was no explanation when they went away from the pack, the fact that he didn't need to pack anything and only needed to come along…

Of course, it was because he was needed for this experiment.

"You…. you tricked me…" Kyle said in disbelief, he glared at the gamma. "How could you do this to me? I respect you… but, you want me to die?"

No. Colton didn't want to do this. It was not in his nature to hurt people, but at the same time, he couldn't find in him to disobey the alpha's direct order. He was the only one who knew about this corporation aside from Ariana and even when the two of them were against it, there was nothing that they could do to make the alpha change his mind.

"This is not that dangerous. Ariana has made sure this will not take your life." Colton's voice was not convincing. "The chance of this failing is very low."

Kyle raised his brows, as if someone had just slapped him so hard. "Do you mean, if this fails, I will die, but if this succeeds I will lose my ability to shift into my beast?" Kyle laughed menacingly. "And you want me to relax? What kind of logic is that?"

As a shifter, what kind of life awaited you when you couldn't shift into your beast anymore?

"If you want to try it out, why don't you do it yourself!?" Kyle spatted, he was riled up, anger was written all over his face, as he glared at Colton and then Eros. "Do you know about this?" he narrowed his eyes at Eros and Emily. "Did you know that you brought me along for this purpose?"

Emily shook her head, she was hiding behind Eros, as she was afraid of the way Kyle was screaming at them. He looked like someone, who would kill anyone around him right now.

This was a great deal for him. It was not just the possibility of losing his life and his beast they were talking about here, but also the feeling of being betrayed by people that he trusted.

He thought they were in the same boat, but Colton easily tossed him aside and let him deal with this, even without saying anything.

"No, I didn't know…" Emily replied softly. "We didn't know…" she shook her head.

Kyle believed her, because he could see how shocked both of them were, so it was just Colton. He was the only person that knew and the fact that the alpha gave the order to him couldn't be denied.

"Damn you, Colton!" Kyle charged toward Colton, while Eros didn't want to deal with him and simply stepped aside with Emily close to him. He didn't have any intention to stop Kyle or help the gamma, since it was not necessary.

"Stop this," Sol said, he intervened, as he stepped in and in a swift move, he tackled Kyle down to the floor. He held one of his arms behind his back, while his other hand pressed his head against the cold floor.

If Kyle could shift into his beast, Sol would have died by now, but since his ability as a shifter was being suppressed, he was no different from a normal human.

"Do it now," Sol said, as he directed his attention toward Emily.

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