UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

"If you know that he has been avoiding you, then you should know when to stop from coming after him." That was the most logical thing that Knox could think of, seeing his current situation right now. He was not in the position to give Zuri some advice, neither he wanted to do that.

"I can't do that," Zuri replied pathetically. If he could do it, she would have done so and she wouldn't be here, seeking for Knox, knowing this man would love to kick her out of the room.

The two of them simply couldn't be on the same room without tiring each other out, yet here they were.

"Just follow what he said," Knox said simply.

Hearing that Zuri narrowed her eyes. This man was really not helping at all. "No," she said sternly. "If I agreed to him, I will not come to you."

Knox then glanced at Zuri. "Then follow what you want to do."

"You said it so simple," Zuri grumbled, because Knox paid zero attention to her, which she should have expected ever since she walked into this room, but seeing his ignorance made her morose. "It's not as simple as that."

Zuri laid back on the long sofa and stared at the ceiling. This bedroom filled with Knox's scent and alcohol, this made her dizzy, but because his scent was almost the same like Chaos, it gave her a little bit comfort.

Her head had been aching so bad since a few days ago.

"Why is it not simple?" Knox glanced at Zuri and found her laying on the sofa with her arm covered her eyes. She sighed deeply, irritably. "It is either you follow him or you follow what you believe."

Hearing that, Zuri pursed her lips and threw him a glare from under her arm before she closed her eyes again.

"If I come to be an uninvited person it will be uncomfortable," she said sullenly. Actually, Zuri knew that she could just follow them, unless Chaos chained her to the wall, there was no way he could stop her from coming, but somehow, she wanted him to want her to come as well.

She felt like she was being abandoned, though that was not true.

Maybe Chaos was right that she needed time to be away from him for a while to be able to think straight and clear her muddleheaded mind.

However, she didn't want to be away from him, yet she didn't want to be in the same position as back then.

Zuri was afraid that Chaos maybe right that she would grow resenting him…

The thought alone made her gritted her teeth.

"Do you really care about that silly thing? Since when you care when you become a nuisance?" Knox scoffed because the excuse that Zuri gave to him simply sounded very absurd when it came from her mouth.

This time Zuri propped her body with her elbows and shot him a dagger look, yet he didn't even flinch at all.

"Am I wrong?" he asked innocently. "You focus on a trivial thing and stress yourself out, it doesn't look like you at all."

Zuri mumbled something, but she didn't talk anything anymore after that because all she could think of right now was… Knox was right. She could just follow them, what was wrong with that?

Ugh!

She grunted and groaned, which made Knox furrowed his brows. "Bring your bad mood somewhere else, I don't want to see that," he said in low voice, his eyes stared out of the window.

However, Zuri didn't make any movement and instead, she closed her eyes with both of her arms, plopping down on the sofa again, mumbling something incoherently, either it was a stream or curses at him, or she just vented out her anger, Knox didn't really care about what Zuri was going on, since he had his own issue.

Lucinda city…

What if they met again? Would she forget about him? Was she happy now with Sebastian? He wanted to know about her, whether she was happy with the decision six years ago or not, but at the same time, he didn't want to hear she was happy with another man.

Roughly, Knox rubbed his face and sighed deeply. He chugged down the remaining liquid inside the bottle and then stood up from the windowsill only to find out Zuri was sleeping on the sofa.

"I have a problem and you only came to add more." He looked at her begrudgingly, but then he walked toward the bed and took a blanket.

Knox put the blanket on her body to keep her warm and then walked out of the room, leaving her alone there.

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Emily bit her lips nervously when Eros told her that he wanted to meet with Xerxes again after the issue with Josh had died down.

They couldn't find the poor man and no one was suspicious toward them, since they didn't have any evidence to even point them out.

"Can I hear what you are going to say to him?" Emily asked Eros, she felt very nervous right now. She twiddled with her fingers, as she walked beside Eros toward the old building, where the previous Alpha was being held.

On the other hand, Eros glanced at Emily, he took her hand to stop her habit and intertwined their hand together.

"I will tell you what our conversation later when everything is clear to me," Eros promised her and with that, Emily couldn't push further, because she didn't want to make him uncomfortable and found her annoying. "Did you learn something in the infirmary?" he asked after a long silence.

"Not really…" Emily mumbled. "Me and Ariana are trying to find how to extract the beast's blood from the shifter."

Eros furrowed his brows. "I don't remember you tell me about this," he said. "Tell me more."

"Oh, I must forget to tell you." Because Eros was busy to join the search team to find Josh and the alpha added a lot of work on him, they rarely met with each other recently, because he would return when she had slept and went out before she even woke up. "Yes, Ariana wants to do some experiment about it."

And then Emily told him what was that about.

Extracting the beast blood from a shifter would cause them lost their beast side, which would turn them into normal creature, just like human, without actually killing them.

"The alpha knows about that?" Eros found that strange, why would they even tried to do something so useless like that. What was the point to make a shifter to be a normal?

Emily lowered her head and then mumbled. "Actually, Ariana said this is a secret between us," she said meekly, feeling guilty because she had betrayed her trust again. The first time was when she told her about the previous alpha and now this one.

But somehow, Emily couldn't keep secret from Eros and Ariana shouldn't have a high expectation on her for this part.

The healer was too confidence that Emily could keep something from Eros.

"I have guessed it…" Eros mumbled a reply. "Why she wants to do it?"

Ariana lived well, she was not in any form of danger and because she was the gamma's mate, and moreover, Colton was a respectable man, he was in good term with all the member of this pack, since he always looked calm and level headed, but why she wanted to make such experiment?

Emily shook her head. "I don't know," she said timidly. "I didn't ask."

Eros nodded. He knew her habit very well to have guessed it, but this thing interested him. He wanted to know more.

"Hm?" Emily raised her head when Eros stopped walking and turned her body around to face him. "What happened?"

"Can you find out what she wants to do with that experiment?" Eros asked softly, he squeezed her hand in his to emphasize that he needed the detail of it. "Can you do that?"

Emily wetted her lips, she was conflicted. She didn't want to betray Ariana's trust further, but at the same time, Eros's request was not something that she could deny.

"Please?"

Moreover, when he was pleading at her like this. He had been nothing but kind to her, protecting her and he even threw himself into a great trouble by killing someone for her, how could she repay all of that?

"Okay," Emily agreed. "I will try to find out about it if you want to know."

Eros smiled and leaned over to kiss her cheek, which was nothing out of ordinary, since they had done this kind of gesture since they were children, but when they had grown older this gesture made Emily's heart skipped a beat.

Her face flushed red when he did this, though she was not sure whether Eros had the same feeling for her or not.

However, it was only her, who he would treat this way.

"Thank you." Eros squeezed her hand again and they continued walking down the old building in another silence.

It took some time for them to reach the room, because they needed to avoid a few guards, but fortunately, they couldn't smell their scent thanked to Emily.

"Eros." Emily stopped him when he was about to enter the room to meet Xerxes.

"Hm?" Eros turned around and then looked at her, waiting for what she wished to say.

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