UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

"I love you, Eros." Emily had said this countless times in the past, when the meaning of love was still pure between them, just like any other siblings and when it finally shifted, the meaning became even more deeper than that.

"I love you too." Eros smiled and ruffled her hair.

Yet, coming from him made it sound hollow. It lost its meaning.

Usually, Emily would love to hear that, not to mention the way he ruffled her hair. But recently, she became even more greedy and wanted Eros to do more than just ruffling her hair, as if she was a little girl. She was not a little girl anymore and she didn't want him to see her like one.

She wanted him to see her as a woman.

"What did you talk about with Alpha Liam?" Emily tried to push her negative thoughts away because she couldn't help but feel so bitter when she thought about it. She poisoned her own thoughts by thinking about those uncertainties.

"Not much." Eros's expression turned grim when he said that. He looked reluctant to tell her about this, but he decided to let her know, since it was not a habit of his to hide something from Emily. "Liam is having a deal with a human."

Emily narrowed her eyes. "With that man from the East Draghar? What is his name again?" She tried to remember the man that they met when they tested the potion.

"Sol Williams."

"Ah!" Emily made an exclamation. "He is the younger brother of Luna Jasmine, right?"

"Yes." Eros nodded, he opened the door to the empty kitchen and started to prepare the ingredients for their supper. Emily also helped him with that. She took out three portions of meat from the freezer, since she knew one wouldn't be enough for Eros. "He leads the army in the East Draghar now."

Because of the help that Artzees provided to East Draghar when they managed to retain the enraged dragon and how that country had admitted that supernatural creatures were real and that they lived among them, also how dangerous they were, right now, Artzees country was helping East Draghar to establish and strengthen their defense force against non human beings.

From outside, this was a treaty between two countries, but the fact was; Artzees started to colonize East Draghar, since Sol interfered with their military power with an excuse that they needed to get involved in order to protect the country from the supernatural creatures.

East Draghar was late to notice the threat from the supernatural creatures, thus Artzees was way more knowledgeable in such matters.

Seeing massive casualties from the dragon's attack, East Draghar was not in the position where they could raise a dispute about such a thing.

"In that case, why does Sol want to cooperate with Liam?" Emily chopped the garlic. She found this activity very relaxing, despite the topic that they were talking about. "They want to kill our kind."

"Sol has his opinions about this. He wondered why humans should fight against supernatural creatures, when we are already fighting among ourselves." Eros started to grill the meat and the delicious scent wafted inside the kitchen, watering Emily's mouth. She just remembered how hungry she was all day.

Just like humans, they were from the same kind, but would often fight among themselves, since they were also greedy with their own intentions.

"Sol is using that fact to pit us against each other." Eros cut a small piece and blew over it, before he let Emily taste it.

"He said that blatantly?" Emily munched on the meat, but her eyes widened with surprise. How bold he was.

"No, that's the conclusion and interpretation of Liam from their discussion." Eros watched Emily sprinkle more salt on the meat, she tended to like her food saltier.

"What do you think about that?" Emily looked at him. "If it were you, would you take the offer?"

"I am not the alpha," Eros replied lightly, as he flipped the meat swiftly.

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"Where have you been?" Gael was frustrated when he saw Chaos and Zuri enter the lobby of the hotel. He had been waiting for them, while River was trying to calm her father down.

She grinned at Zuri and approached her, not heeding the way her father grumbled, as she was happy to see her again, since she thought Zuri had left without saying anything.

"You were both gone after burning the whole room, can you at least explain to me what was going on? I thought someone burned you down into ashes." Gael was well known for his exaggerated nature and River had gotten used to it.

"How did you think something like that was even possible?!" It was nonsense if Chaos could be burned to ashes as simply as that.

"I want you to meet me in the study room, tell the others to come as well." Chaos then took Zuri's hand and walked toward the elevator.

"That's my study room, but why does he act like it's his own?" Gael sulked when Chaos and Zuri were no longer there and River came to him, giving him a peck on each of his cheeks.

"Even if you continue to complain, what could you possibly do, father? You can't ask him to reimburse the room, right?" River pointed out the truth, since their wealths were entangled with each other's in the name of the McKeltar family.

"Well, at least, he could have apologized and told me what had happened."

River snorted at her father, but she wrapped her arm around his hip. "I bet you just want to hear some gossip."

Gael grumbled she was not wrong, but then he did as Chaos said.

It didn't take long for all of them to gather in Gael's study room.

Norbeat sat next to Skylar, while the girl stared at Chaos without blinking. She didn't even hide her interest toward Chaos, despite Zuri's presence or even blatant rejection from Chaos himself.

Somehow, Zuri wanted to wave a salute to her for her persistence.

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