UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

Eros handed her a dress, which was not to her taste at all and when she sniffed the fabric, a frown formed on her forehead.

"Don't tell me this is your lover's dress?" Zuri glowered at him. How dare he give her such a dress for her to wear?

Zuri was even more aggravated when she watched how Eros smirked. This man was intentionally annoying her.

"What is with that look?" Eros complained when Zuri growled dangerously at him in a low voice, but it was enough to make Gael and Emily, who were nearby, glance at the two of them curiously. "You are wearing that man's clothes, what is the problem with this dress?"

Zuri wanted to retort that, but then she realized that he had the same feeling as her when he handed her the dress.

It was jealousy.

Oh, spare me…

Neither of them could get rid of this stupid feeling. If it was not for the mate bond that tied them together, they wouldn't have bothered about whomever clothes they were wearing.

"Where are you going?" Eros frowned when Zuri returned the dress.

"My room is only one floor below, why should I wear someone else's dress?" Zuri replied. She gave him a look before she walked away from there.

Well, she could understand why Eros was agitated when she was wearing someone else's clothes, but it didn't mean she was willing to wear his lover's dress when she had other choices.

Moreover, the girl seemed very skillful and knew what she was doing. She was not a healer, but her knowledge was on par with one, thus she didn't need to worry about Colton.

"Why should I be worried about him in the first place," Zuri grumbled. She didn't have anything to do with the Shadow Moon pack. She left the pack years ago and the only person that she was holding a grudge against was Liam. No one else, but him.

However, when Zuri was in deep thought, she heard someone following her and then immediately turned around. She was ready to fight if this was another intruder, but as it turned out, it was just Eros.

"What are you doing?" Zuri frowned, she chose to use the emergency stairs to lessen the chance of meeting the other guests in the corridor or lift.

"I will walk you to your room." Eros didn't seem bothered with his suggestion, though Zuri showed him how displeased she was.

"Why should I accept that?" Zuri raised her brows. "Do you think I need to be protected like your meek girl?"

Eros threw her a glare and Zuri immediately realized how wrong it was for her to say that.

"I am sorry, that's uncalled for. This stupid mate bond got the better of me," Zuri said. She was neither genuine nor felt guilty when she said it, but at the very least, she admitted it was uncalled for to say something hostile toward that girl.

"I couldn't agree more with you. Stupid mate bond indeed." Eros walked with her. Despite her objection that she wanted to walk alone, she finally relented, probably she should put up more fight about this, since she felt she gave up very easily.

"I don't think you can go back to the Shadow Moon pack tomorrow with Colton's condition like that," Zuri said. She didn't want to walk in silence because it was awkward.

They were walking down the emergency stairs, but their pace was exceptionally slow, as if, unconsciously, they wanted to spend more time together and have a longer conversation with each other.

"Yes, I think I need to make a call to Liam to let him know about the situation here." Eros noticed how Zuri flinched when she heard Liam's name. Her hatred must be so great for her to have that kind of reaction just at the mention of his name alone.

"You are quite bold to say his name without the title." Zuri could hear how easy it was for Eros to say Liam's name that way, which meant he didn't have high regard for the alpha.

Eros chuckled when he heard that. "I should be more careful, it seems my dislike toward him is so profound that you noticed it right away." He nodded and then added. "Yes, I don't really like him. He is not a good leader, nor is he a good person… but, to his credit, I should say he is a good father."

Liam tended to do whatever he wanted at the expense of the members of his own pack. Sometimes, he would even take the matter into his own hands and punish someone more than necessary for the crime that they had done just because he didn't like them.

And there were a lot more things that Liam had done in the shadows, which disgusted Eros.

"I heard he still has Jasmine with him," Zuri said. She found it surprising that the conversation flowed so smoothly, as if they had a lot in common and they were long time good friends, who were catching up with one another.

"Yes, they have twins and I don't think the last child is Liam's." Eros scoffed.

Zuri knew what he meant by that, because the last child that Jasmine had was Darius's, the man had been nagging her for years to attack that pack.

"Seeing you not surprised to hear that, I assume you know about it already," Eros said, staring at Zuri's flat expression.

She shrugged her shoulders. "The father sought for shelter in the McKeltar manor," she said truthfully, she didn't think it was something to be kept as a secret, since it didn't cost them anything. "Don't you think there is something wrong with those shifters?" Zuri changed the topic of their discussion.

Eros thought about it for a while. "Yes. They were exceptionally strong. It is not normal."

Both of them had their fair share of fighting, so they would know and were able to gauge the opponent's strength, but the ones that attacked them were not normal.

It seemed, no matter how badly they hurt them, it wouldn't bother them, as if they couldn't feel any pain and would keep attacking them if it was not for their heads being cut off or their hearts being clawed out of their chests.

"I see your girl is blessed with talent, why don't you take her to take a look. I am sure Gael still has the carcasses." Zuri glanced at Eros and then sighed when he gave her that look. "It will not hurt your precious little girl, my mate, the beasts have died. What could a dead body do to hurt her?"

Eros disagreed with her. "Emily has a weak heart."

"She has a weak heart because you coddle her." Zuri chastised him. They needed to know about it too and moreover, she wanted to know how talented this girl was. A little bit of information wouldn't hurt, right? "This is not the world where you can baby her. The more you spoil her, the more she will be in danger."

Eros didn't need that advice from her, because he knew it was wrong of him to shelter her that way, but… he had protected her since they were little, so it was more like a habit to him.

"She is different from us. She is built differently from me or you." Eros didn't give a definite answer.

Zuri shrugged her shoulders. "I just gave you some advice, I thought you wanted to know who your attackers are."

Eros didn't heed that word and then opened the door once they arrived at the third floor.

"You don't need to follow me to my room. Go back to your girl." Zuri waved her hand, she didn't want him to know where her room was, because there was a high chance Chaos would be there.

But then, the moment the door was opened, Zuri gasped loudly as she realized Chaos had been waiting for her behind it.

His long and black hair fluttered and his deep blue eyes were fixed on her. "Why are you so surprised?" He tilted his head at her reaction.

Zuri didn't want to be surprised either and give him this suspicious reaction, especially with Eros next to her.

"You appeared all of a sudden, how can I not be surprised?" Zuri thanked herself for not faltering when she answered him, she sounded confident enough, right?

Immediately, Zuri scurried toward Chaos, she wanted to drag him away from there. Why the hell did she feel like a girlfriend, who was caught cheating? She did nothing! They had been courteous with each other… except for one time, when it came close to physical contact.

Ugh! Blame that all on the mate bond!

Probably because Zuri was too close to Eros, so she was late to notice that Chaos nearby, after all, their scents were almost the same, and only now Zuri noticed that Eros's scent was way more similar to Chaos's than Knox's.

"Let's go back to our room." Zuri tugged on his jacket, but he didn't budge.

"Who are you?" Chaos looked at Eros, his blue eyes glistened, as he watched how the two of them dressed. He took his jacket and put it around Zuri's body.

Gael's shirt was dark in color, but a closer look at her, you could see the shape of her breasts perfectly and Chaos hated it that there was another man near her when she was like this.

"There was an attack before this, have you heard about that?" Zuri tried to distract Chaos from Eros.

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