Untamed: The Alpha

254 I DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOU

The dark wings on Chaos’ back folded and then disappeared behind his back, as if they were never there in the first place and Zuri couldn’t be more amazed to witness this. What else did she not know about Chaos? He came with a package of unsolved mysteries and was hard to understand.

Chaos set her down and once the white wolf’s legs touched the ground, she shifted back into her human form.

Zuri was naked with her white, long hair cascaded down, covering most of her skin, while Chaos knelt down in front of her, staring at her with his dark eyes. He looked cold and distant.

“You have wings?” Zuri peeked over his shoulder to see the wings again, but they had long disappeared.

Chaos said nothing, but he stretched out his hand and wiped away the remaining dark blood of that creature from her previous fight, which stained her hair and face. After all, she had bitted down the creature ferociously and the blood spurted out of his wounds everywhere.

“Do you have anything else that you hide from me?” Zuri asked, and looked at Chaos intensely. “So, I will not get too surprised later on if I found out something shocking about you. It is not really good for my heart, you know.”

Chaos still did not say anything, but he leaned over to give her a kiss on the lips, which surprised Zuri, as she closed her eyes to feel the roughness of his lips. She demanded an answer, not a kiss, though this felt good too.

And when she opened her eyes again, she was already wearing clothes. It was a simple white shirt and a pair of white sweatpants, which she usually wore while they were staying in the penthouse.

“This makes things easier,” Zuri mumbled, as she looked down at her new shirt and pants, while standing up. “Who are those people?” She couldn’t help, but be curious about the woman.

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Chaos stared at Zuri for a moment, before he caressed her soft cheek with his thumb to wipe away the remaining dirt from her face. “Don’t attack them.”

“Why?” Zuri asked in confusion.

Chaos contemplated for a while, as if he was trying to decide whether or not to tell her about it, but then he explained it briefly.

“Because they will kill your beast eventually. Their blood means poison for a shifter.” Chaos took Zuri’s hand and then started walking away. Even though he looked aloof and didn’t really seem caring, he would always make sure that Zuri was within his line of sight.

“What kind of creatures are they?” Zuri didn’t recognize the woman or the bunch of men with her, or what kind of creatures they were.

“Scylla, she is a Lamia.” Chaos walked them to enter the dense forest, leaving the river behind them, while the sound of its stream got smaller and smaller, as they ventured deeper into the forest.

Zuri didn’t realize it, because she was too immersed in what Chaos explained to her. It was a rare occasion for Chaos to talk in long sentences for this long.

According to what Chaos explained to her, Lamia was one of the mythological creatures. She was a mistress and had this weird obsession to hunt and devour children, while having voracious sexual appetite.

From their short encounter, Zuri could see who was the target of her sexual appetite and it was disgusting for Zuri to learn that.

Chaos also said she was a shifter, which was very rare to be seen in her original body. She had the lower body of a serpent, though she could shapeshift into a flawlessly beautiful woman in order to seduce men.

“What do you want to say here?” Zuri stopped walking when she immediately realized where this explanation would head on. “Do you want to say that those men are her children?” Her voice came out as a shriek.

Zuri didn’t like it when she freaked out, but the thought of it alone made her stomach churn. What a disgusting creature!

“Don’t tell me that it is true.” Zuri cringed. She didn’t want to hear the answer, but that indeed seemed the case, as Chaos said ‘yes’ tersely. “That’s disgusting.” She scrunched her nose.

“Don’t fight them,” Chaos warned her again. “Their blood will harm the beast inside of you.” Which eventually would harm her as well and that was the last thing that Chaos wanted to happen to her.

“Okay,” Zuri mumbled, as she looked at their surroundings and only then did she realize they were already too deep in the forest. “Why are we here?”

“I want you to see someone,” Chaos replied. At that, he took her hand again, as if he didn’t do so, she would disappear all of a sudden, or he would lose her.

It was insane to even think that way, but as days passed, Chaos was having a hard time not to show his overprotective nature and his possessive side, especially when danger came from everywhere, as now those dark creatures were aware of Zuri’s existence.

She was not weak, but she was not strong enough to fight them and she would always be the weak spot for Chaos, one those dark creatures could make use to destroy him, reminding him of constant agony that he had to suffer during those moments when he lost his only companion.

“Who?” Zuri was not aware of his complicated feelings, but she would learn about them the hard way.

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Eros was woken up when Emily touched his face and he could see a little bit of surprise in her hazel eyes as a tinge of red color spread to her cheekbones. She was blushing.

“Um, the ceremony will commence in a few hours,” she said sheepishly, while retracting her hand away from him. “You need to go to the main hall. Earlier, Ariana came and told me to wake you up.”

“You will be there too.”

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