UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

The meeting that Chaos suggested was finished in no time, since he simply told them what they wanted and gave an assignment for each of them that should be done within a limited time. After that, he took Zuri and went out of the room.

When Zuri closed the door, she could hear Gael shout at them; don't burn my room again!

"When will we go to the East Draghar?" Zuri and Chaos walked down the empty corridor. There were no guests recently. After the attack that night, Gael had been turning down all the guests, especially the humans. "What? You don't think I will not go, right?"

Zuri narrowed her eyes when she caught Chaos staring at her without giving her a proper answer again. He was usually like this, but sometimes, it was so frustrating when he did not talk.

"I just want you to know that I know my way to East Draghar perfectly." Zuri lifted her chin arrogantly. When she traveled with him, they had crossed the border a few times and she knew her away around the country.

"I wish you wouldn't come with me," Chaos finally replied after a few moments of silence.

Zuri knew the reason. They didn't discuss this in the meeting earlier, but Knox mentioned it. Sol had taken his father's role, as the head of the organization along with other two men. Nikolai was his right hand man, while his sister, Vanesha was their spy, since she had worked for Gael before.

Gael said nothing when they mentioned Vanesha, but Zuri could sense his uneasiness, as he regarded the girl as his own. Vanesha had helped him to get River back, but she chose to join the organization instead.

Zuri didn't know the full story, but a lot of things happened and the girl was no longer that helpless little girl anymore, so was Nikolai.

"I can handle my own feelings," Zuri said. She insisted that she would be fine. "You don't need to worry."

That was true, if she could control herself in front of her own mate, a long lost childhood friend and his sister wouldn't affect her much.

The memory, when the four of them; Zuri, Gael, Nikolai and Vanesha had dinner together and how Gael had bought them blankets, was still fresh in her memory, as if it happened just a day before, but in actuality, it happened twenty one years ago.

They were only little children then, still figuring out how this world worked and how to survive.

However now, twenty one years later, when they were walking down their own paths, their paths would cross once again.

There would be a time when Zuri would cross paths again with Eros, and then what?

Zuri leaned her head against Chaos's arm, as they walked hand in hand down this corridor.

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It had been two days since they had returned to the pack and once again Eros asked Emily to help him to meet with the former Alpha, Xerxes.

"Why do you always want to meet him? Is there something that you want to know?" Emily frowned when she saw Eros put on his jacket before helping with hers. "Something important?"

"There is nothing significant," Eros replied, it was the same answer that he gave her whenever she asked that question.

"Don't fool me, Eros, I know that you are up to something. Is it something dangerous that you don't want to let me know?"

Eros leaned over and kissed her forehead. "Don't read too much into it, I am just curious about what happened in this pack in the past."

Emily liked it when Eros took the initiative to kiss her, but she knew it was only a habit of his to appease her anxiety.

"Don't do something stupid," Emily mumbled, she felt uncomfortable about this secret meeting in the middle of the night.

"Such as?" Eros took her hand and then walked out of their bedroom. After Emily sprayed something on him and herself, no one could smell their scent. This was the perk of being a healer and someone that Ariana trusted, because she had free access to all the herbs and poison that she needed.

"I don't know, sometimes it is hard for me to guess what is in your mind," Emily replied truthfully.

"There is nothing interesting in my mind," Eros said, as they slowed down their pace, because he heard the sound of footsteps from the opposite direction. It must be the guards, who were patrolling around this area.

"Including me?" Emily whispered into his ear, as she tiptoed, because Eros put his finger in front of his lips to tell her not to make noise.

Actually, she didn't like it when Eros talked to former alpha Xerxes, but she liked their time together on their brief trip to that forgotten corner, where the former alpha was staying.

Emily was always thrilled whenever they were almost got caught and how Eros kept her closer to him.

On the other hand, hearing the way she teased him, Eros just smiled at her.

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Chaos and Zuri had arrived in East Draghar a day earlier and stayed in a hotel room, from where they decided to move closer to the heart of the facility in this country, where they incarcerated the dragon beast.

Somehow, Killian couldn't go back to his human's side, because they put him to sleep in his dragon form.

It would be a great effort for them to go closer to that place, because Chaos couldn't penetrate the protection that was put around the area, and he knew who had done it.

Aaron. He was already here and prevented him from taking back the dragon shifter, since he was chasing after his shattered souls as well.

"What do you think Aaron will do with your shattered souls?" Zuri asked. They were in a restaurant having their dinner, surrounded by the people from the organization, as they chose to eat somewhere close to their headquarters.

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