UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

His eyes were not dark blue like she remembered when she was a child, the reason behind her insistence to be called Blue.

But then, they were neither black like when she met him for the second time at the frozen lake not so long ago. Instead, they were red. The color was so bright until it reminded Zuri of blood in the snow.

The blood that was spilled during the first massacre that Chaos perpetrated in front of her, when he got rid of an entire army of warriors from the Silver River pack when she was a child.

Those eyes were bloodshot red.

Zuri was stunned. She didn't know what to do, every single fiber in her body told her to run. For some reason, seeing Chaos like this scared her. She had never seen him out of control like this.

Yet, she couldn't move when he approached her and closed the distance between them.

Zuri felt the air was getting thin until she was on the verge of being suffocated. Her whole body was trembling, she wanted to push him away, but she didn't have the strength to do so.

However, on the other hand, she wanted him to be close to her, because she was afraid. She wanted him to be close to her because she wanted to see any trace that indicated he was still the Chaos that she knew.

The man that she risked her life for. Someone that she tossed away all rationality for, just to be with him instead of running away from him.

And when Chaos lifted his hand to touch her, Zuri flinched. It was an instinct. She didn't mean to do that, but she couldn't help herself.

Chaos frowned, he looked at her deeply, right in her eyes. At this point, Zuri wondered whether he could see her or not.

He was not able to see anything the last time she saw him, but the man before her eyes was so different until she couldn't put it into words.

"Blue…" Chaos called her name, his voice was hoarse, rough even, but that was the voice that she knew. "Blue…"

Zuri felt her chest caving in. She felt all the memories rushing back to the foremost part of consciousness when he called her by that name, when they talked in the library, or when they walked together on their first journey, or when he told her to find him, the moment he realized that the little girl was able to find him by his scent.

"Blue…" Chaos called her again, because she didn't say anything. "Blue…"

That was the only word that he said, simply repeating her name over and over again.

"Why did you do this?" Zuri finally found her voice again, though it was only a whisper.

Chaos looked at her deeply. He was standing only half a step away from her and this proximity made it hard for her to even breathe.

She didn't want him to touch her, but she didn't want him to stay away from her either. These conflicting feelings were torturous for her and she didn't know what to do about them.

Zuri hated herself for being so indecisive, not even knowing what she wanted or what she should do.

"Why did you destroy the whole city?" she asked again.

Many people died because of him and the way that woman screamed at the top of her lungs, filled with agony when she witnessed her own daughter being mauled by the beasts, was still ringing in her head, echoing through her entire being. It created pain in her heart that Zuri wouldn't be able to erase from her mind ever.

"Why did you set the city on fire?" Tears streamed down her cheeks.

Seeing that, the furrow between Chaos' brows deepened. He watched as tears stained her cheeks and then her teary hazel eyes. He hated it when she was in pain.

"Why?" Zuri's voice was barely a whisper.

"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 gasped when she heard that. Those were the exact words that Chaos had said to her when he figured something horrible had happened to her, that she had gone through something horrifying, which traumatized her and made her feel complete rejection to be touched.

"I will burn everything until I find out who did this to you." His red eyes fell on the swollen mark on her neck. He lifted his hand to touch the evidence of the nightmare that she had gone through.

Zuri tried to avoid it, but this time, Chaos didn't care, he wrapped his hand around her slender neck and touched the mark.

Zuri whimpered when he did that, she cried when the pain of that night returned, when she was forced to remember what Emmet had done to her and how helpless she was to let everything happen.

She shouldn't have given up. She shouldn't have given up.

The thought of it made Zuri feel sick. She should have fought harder, so nothing of that would have happened to her.

However, she knew that was not true. She was not in the position or condition where she could fight Emmet…

"Don't touch me…" Zuri begged him, she wanted to push Chaos away from her, but she fell to her knees instead, because there was nothing left of her, she didn't have any strength to stand up and felt this rush of emotions and repulsion. "Don't touch me, please… don't touch me…"

Zuri closed her eyes and her body was shaking so hard.

Chaos growled deeply and threateningly to see how Zuri cried, how scared she was. He would burn everything, anything that hurt her. He wouldn't let them live for another day for causing this pain to her…

"I will never hurt you, Blue…" Chaos pulled her closer to him and this time she didn't struggle or fight back.

Zuri was too tired to do that, she was exhausted, she had nothing left. She just wanted to close her eyes until everything was right again…

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