UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

Zuri quickened her steps when she smelled metallic scent in the air and from the broken glass window, she deduced someone must have trespassed; a third attacker.

From Gael and Skylar's expressions earlier, it seemed their aim was the people from the Shadow Moon pack alone. What actually did they deal with while they were here?

Zuri was sure they just arrived this afternoon, but they were attacked even before night fell. They must have dealt with someone dangerous in this city.

On the floor, she found Colton unmoving. He was laying with his face down, in a pool of his own blood. The sight was very worrying.

"Colton!" Zuri called his name and turned his body over, so she could see how gravely injured he was. She gasped when she saw a huge wound on his chest, there were four deep claw marks on his chest and his neck was almost severed.

It was a miracle that he was still alive and his healing ability managed to cope up with this kind of wound.

"Damn it!" Zuri cursed under her breath, as she tried to press her hands against his wounds, but it wouldn't help at all. She needed to ask for assistance.

She was not sure whether Gael had a healer in this place or not, since a doctor would be out of option. The doctors here would be human, therefore, if they were to find out that Colton was a shifter, it was the same as them laying open the secret of this place.

Knowing that being there wouldn't be of any help for Colton, Zuri immediately rushed out of the room again in search of Gael.

"There is an injured person there, we need to call for a healer!" Zuri watched as two men took away the carcasses of the beast that had attacked her and Eros, while Skylar was nowhere to be seen.

It seemed this scene was too gruesome for her weak stomach.

"We don't have a healer at the moment. The nearest healer I know will need a three hour drive to arrive here." Gael looked behind her back. "Who is injured? Are they gravely injured?"

Zuri nodded. "He will not make it if we need three more hours." She then told him the room number, where Colton was, so Gael could take a look at him himself, while she rushed into the nearby room.

There, she found Eros cuddling Emily, to help her to calm down.

"I think you need to stop being lovey dovey now. Colton is gravely injured." Well, she knew it was uncalled for for her to show hostility, but her emotions just slipped from her control and she couldn't take it back. "If we don't find a healer right away, he will die."

Hearing the last statement seemed to make Eros forget about her fierce remark at the beginning, as he jolted to his feet. "He was attacked."

"Apparently so." Zuri nodded. She glanced at Emily, who was still cowering behind Eros, while clutching to his bathrobe.

"Why don't you have any healer here?" Eros helped Emily to stand up and held her close.

"Unfortunately for the gamma, the nearest healer is three hours away." She reiterated what Gael told her.

Eros's jaws clenched tightly, he was trying to hold back his emotions.

"What… what happened to Colton?" Emily asked, she lifted her head to look at Eros, but she still looked like an abandoned puppy. She would look so cute, if they were in a different situation.

"He almost died. Deep claw wounds on his chest, almost severed head…" Hazel mentioned that lightly and found joy when she saw Emily's face blanching at what she was saying, which earned her a glare from Eros.

However, Zuri simply raised her brows, as if asking; what's wrong?

"You will be lucky if you can keep him alive for three more hours until the healer arrives." Zuri was thinking about looking for Knox or Chaos, but she didn't want to call them.

There was this fear deep in her heart that she didn't want them to find out that Eros was Chaos's shattered soul. She would hand him to Chaos later. She would let him know about Eros on her own terms.

Zuri had done so much, at the very least, she should be allowed to do this, right? It was not that she wanted to betray Chaos. Of course, that was not the case, but the time was not right.

Later…

Later. She told herself. She tried to justify her actions. She could ask for this small favor, right?

"I… let me take a look at him…" Emily said with a trembling voice. She fidgeted with every word she said, as if she wanted to back down with her offer, even while she was talking about it.

"Are you a healer?" Zuri tilted her head, she was curious about this girl.

"No." Emily shook her head. "But, I have been working with one for years…" her voice was very small and if Zuri was not a shifter, she would have missed her.

Nonetheless, Zuri was surprised to hear that, but also curious to see the proof of it. "Then, what are you waiting for? Are you waiting for winter to come?"

Eros glared at her again when he heard the way she talked to Emily, but Zuri simply ignored him completely. She didn't think that she was saying something mean… well, maybe a little…

"Eros… we need to see Colton…" Emily said. She still looked pale, but her determination to help others despite herself being unwell was something that one needed to appreciate.

"I would like to see him die, if I can." Eros was still upset about this mission and the whole ordeal that they had to go through, especially with the attackers in the picture.

"I can't agree more with you." Zuri nodded.

"What… what are the two of you talking about?" Emily was mortified when she heard that. She blinked her eyes at Zuri and Eros in disbelief.

Yet, despite what the two of them were saying, they knew that they couldn't let Colton die.

"I will take you to him," Eros said lightly, he then carried her in his arms and walked past Zuri to go to Colton's bedroom.

Meanwhile, Zuri stayed inside the room for a moment, until their figures disappeared.

"Damn it…" she grumbled and then ruffled her hair. She hated to admit this, but she was upset to see him with another woman. She wanted to curse more and stay in this room, but she was also curious about what that girl could do.

Therefore, against her better judgment, she started to walk away from there. She wanted to see if the girl could heal him for real.

By the time Zuri reached the corridor, it had been cleaned and there was only a faint scent of blood, while her nose was burning with the smell of disinfectant.

"How strong this smell is…" she clicked her tongue and then hastened her steps.

Fortunately, when she arrived at Colton's bedroom, the smell had faded and there, she found Emily sitting next to Colton's bloodied body on the bed, while Gael was sitting on the other side of the bed.

He had put him on the bed, despite the shifter bleeding profusely.

However, Zuri couldn't see Eros anywhere.

On the other hand, Zuri could hear Emily talking to Gael, but she didn't hear the whole context, since she wasn't interested to know what the outcome was, she only wanted to see what Emily could do.

"…I think I can stitch his wounds up after we clean them."

"Do you think you can stop the bleeding?" Gael raised his brows. Just like Zuri, he must find it difficult to believe that this human could take on a healer's role and was well knowledgeable about medicine.

"I… I have something to stop the bleeding inside my bag…" Emily said timidly, she lowered her head and fixed her eyes on Colton's wrist, she was checking his pulse.

And before long, Eros came into the room with a backpack, which he then handed to Emily. She started to rummage the contents of it and picked a few things out of the backpack.

"She seems to know what she is doing," Zuri commented when Eros leaned his back against the wall next to her. He was still wearing the bathrobe and this made her frown. "Don't you want to put on some clothes?"

Responding to that, Eros glanced at Zuri's mid- thigh shirt, which was Gael's, while the man had a new shirt on. One of his people must have brought it for him.

"What?" Zuri felt offended by the way he glanced at her, but Eros simply shook his head.

"Nothing. I will change my clothes." He then walked out of the bedroom. Since his bedroom was only next door, he returned pretty quickly and then handed her a dress. It was a blue floral dress and made Zuri scrunch her nose in disgust.

"This is not to my taste," Zuri said.

"Beggars can't choose." They were talking in low voices, so it sounded like they were murmuring with each other to the people on the bed.

"I am not a beggar." Zuri glared at him, yet he just nudged her toward the bathroom to put it on.

"This is better than the one you are wearing right now." There was a fleeting rage in his blue eyes when he saw Gael's clothes on her, but Zuri didn't understand the meaning of it.

"Don't tell me this is your lover's dress." Zuri glowered at him when he smirked.

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