Untamed: The Alpha

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After running away from Chaos, since it was too overwhelming to bear, she ended up in the library, leaning over one of the bookshelves and stared at the ceiling, while hugging herself.

She still could feel her body trembling as her breaths turned ragged. Her palms were sweating when she clenched her fists and tried to calm herself down.

His touch...

The thought of his arms wrapped around her wrist and his hot skin against her was something that unlocked her nightmares all over again. The feeling of his skin on hers was too much for her and it was something she hated the most for having such a feeling.

She shouldn’t be here, she felt like she wanted to run away, but she has nowhere to go. Her mind was heavy, but her heart was even more weighted down.

Zuri was crestfallen to realize that she couldn’t stand having physical contact at all, even if it was with Chaos. The man, who a long time ago, was someone that she looked up to the most.

And his words...

‘You can either tell me who did this to you, or I can turn everything into ashes until I find out who did this.’

Zuri could remember everything that he said, as it kept repeating inside her head. It brought a little bit of serenity in her hectic mind.

.....

However, she couldn’t depend on it. It was not enough for her to overcome every damage that had been done, or what horrible things that she had gone through.

“What are you doing here, girl?” Knox appeared all of a sudden and his scent hit Zuri, even before she could turn around and saw his figure, who was leaning against a bookshelf across from her, staring at her with a frown between his eyes.

He looked like Chaos, almost. His dark blue eyes, his black hair, his scent. After all, he was a piece of his shattered soul and Zuri wondered, what would happen to him if Chaos managed to claim all the pieces of his shattered soul.

“I am not a girl,” Zuri said, she wiped the remaining tears from her face roughly, since she didn’t want him to see her crying, though she was sure that he had seen it, but said nothing at all about it.

“Well, woman then.” Knox shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. “If you don’t have anything better to do, you can go to Chaos’s room and coax him to eat something.”

Zuri just stared at him, said nothing, but Knox knew she asked him to explain more about it, so he did.

“He has not yet eaten anything since you rushed out of his room.” Knox rolled his eyes, as if this matter bored him. He has always been so annoying, even from the first time they met. “I am not saying that he will die from being starved, but I need him to be in good condition. There are a lot of things to be done, since you wake him up early.”

“I didn’t wake him up.”

“You did not, but your existence alone is a great deal for him.”

Zuri didn’t know what Knox meant by that, or what the underlying meaning behind what he said. “He is blind,” Zuri blurted this out, since she didn’t know how to process what he said.

“Well, I figured it out already.” He didn’t seem concerned about it and when Zuri didn’t give him any response, he sighed, as though he was tired of explaining something so obvious to a child. “He will not be blind forever. After gathering his strength, it’s enough to bring his sight back.”

“What do you mean by gathering his strength?” If it was about taking a few more hours of rest or eating a lot of good food, Zuri could understand that, but with the way Knox said it, she could discern that it did not seem as simple as that.

“His shattered soul,” he said in a matter of fact tone. “He needs to gather his soul, which contains his strength.”

That was the reason why he needed to get his soul again. The more he got his soul, the more powerful he could be. Since those souls were literally every piece of him.

Zuri knew that she shouldn’t feel this way, since she thought her conscience had died a long time ago on that day when she killed Emmet, left Marriane to die, burned Alpha Xerxes alive and unalived Adel.

Yet, here she was, still reluctant to get more blood on her hands.

“I will not participate in that.” Zuri averted her gaze and she meant every word she said. She wouldn’t be out there, sniffing the air just to track down his shattered soul.

But a second later she doubted her determination.

“That’s up to you,” Knox said, as he walked toward the big window there. “But, even though he is a pain in the arse, at least make him eat something.”

“He can eat if he wants.”

Knox could only shake his head, realizing that one thing had never changed; her attitude. If anything, it was only getting worse.

“Is that Gael?” Zuri looked out to see the man running out of the house. He drove the car so fast. “Where is he rushing to?”

“To get another trouble,” Knox said grimly.

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Zuri didn’t do this because she was worried about Chaos, but because Knox didn’t stop telling her to do this. No. She lied about that.

Knowing Knox, he wouldn’t be so consistent to force someone to do something. He would tell you what it was and left it at that.

Zuri was indeed worried about Chaos.

She entered the room again and found him no longer on the bed. Panic rushed in her blood, until she could smell his scent from the bathroom and heard the sound of running water.

Zuri immediately walked to the bathroom door, which was slightly ajar and knocked on it to tell him that she was there. “Are you there?”

“Come in,” Chaos said from inside.

What?

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