But, if she could get him, it would worth the effort.
“My sincere apology for wasting your time, king Dacre, I will take my leave.” Rose retreated.
Once she left the room, Dacre continued to read the report, but he was surprised that Rose stopped her attempt. He was not stupid, of course, he knew what Rose’s initial plan to come here.
But at the very least, she was smart enough to know when to retreat.
Later that night, Dacre learned that Rose really left the kingdom, she went to pack her things and leave the palace right after their conversation in the study room.
However, this fact left Nycta upset.
“I think I am too harsh on her,” Nycta said to Dacre, as she laid down next to him. “I think I should apologize to her.”
“There is no need for you to apologize to her.” Dacre kissed her forehead and hugged her. “Now, sleep. You need to take some rest. You have been thinking too much, it’s not good to stress out the baby.”
Nycta snuggled against his chest and soon, she fell asleep, only after that, Dacre got off the bed and went out of the room, where Killian was standing on guard outside.
Dacre stood next to him and stared down at him, but Killian simply lowered his head solemnly. He didn’t say anything when the king put his finger under his chin and tilted his head up.
“Very quiet like usual.” Dacre smirked. He brushed his thumb against his lower lip. “She is pregnant with your child. No one should know about this… in this case… I should have killed you, so no one will know,” he drawled his words out.
“My life is yours, my king,” Killian replied, he didn’t falter at all with the threat.
Dacre chuckled when he heard that. “Very good. I know your life is mine. You need to remember that.” He leaned over and kissed his lips, as Killian closed his eyes and relished it.
***
“Stop it,” Khaos said coldly.
“She still can withstand the fourth curse, alpha,” Rhett said when he ordered the black magic users to put the fourth curse on Zuri.
“No.” Khaos looked at Rhett dead in the eyes. “If she died everything will go in vain.”
If Zuri died, they would need to start everything over and it would take years to even find the right Shell to start the whole process.
Rhett knew that too.
“I am sorry, alpha, I got caught up with the excitement.” Rhett then stopped the ritual and then ordered them to release Zuri from her shackles.
By this time, Zuri looked very pale, her face turned so red because of all the cries and pain, her voice was hoarse for all the screaming.
Khaos walked toward the slab when they were done with her.
“We need to erase her memory about this, alpha,” one of the worshipers in the white cloak explained to Khaos. “It will take a while, please step aside.”
Khaos didn’t budge, thus the black magic users could do it with him still standing there.
Zuri found Khaos’s eyes and her lips trembled when she spoke. “Why did you hurt me?”
‘Why did you hurt me?’
The question echoed in Khaos’s head. He didn’t hurt directly, but he didn’t do anything when they hurt her.
The way she trusted him and the way she attached to him. The way she was obsessed with him… Khaos was sure that Zuri would have believed every word he said, even when he told her the sun rose in the west.
The connection between them was not real. It was an attachment between the Shell and the lycan.
However, her question settled in the back of his head along with her younger image when she hugged herself in the middle of the cold winter night.
Khaos didn’t do anything that time and he didn’t do anything to help her this time.
“You can’t falter, Khaos,” Caiden said, he grimaced with his own word. “You know this is necessary and important.”
Caiden was still contemplating whether or not he needed to inform Bryden and his father, who currently were in Great Lunar kingdom, but now he was against it.
This matter was too complicated to be explained in a single letter and moreover, he didn’t want to go against Khaos’s judgement.
He thought Khaos was swayed by his infatuation to Zuri, but now, he understood the attachment between the two of them and why the connection happened.
“Open the door.” Khaos nodded at the closed door in front of him with Zuri was still unconscious in his arms. Those black magic users had erased her memories about the ritual and she would wake up the next day.
They said she would be fine. Her body was a perfect Shell and they actually could put the fourth curse if Khaos wanted, so they could make the progress of the beauty blood faster.
However, Khaos didn’t say anything and took Zuri away. His expression was unreadable. They expected to be praised by the alpha, but apparently what they had done didn’t impress him at all. The worshippers were left disappointed.
Caiden opened the door for him and then caught a glance at Zuri’s sleeping face. He left the scene after the first curse inflicted on her, but he could still hear her scream.
Her scream filled the entire mansion. There was a reason why this place was secluded. The gamma felt like his ears would be forever rang with her scream at this point.
“It’s twenty more, right?” Caiden asked, trying to engage with Khaos, because the alpha had been very quiet. He couldn’t read his mind, neither he could mindlink him. He blocked him and everyone else. “I think it will be done faster than we expected. With that, she doesn’t need to suffer anymore.”
Caiden didn’t know the right word to say to him, but he felt for Khaos.
Ever since he could understand how this world worked, the first thing he was introduced to was vengeance, the revenge from the previous generation was burdened to his shoulders.
Khaos must to avenge the people that was his blood, but he had never known about them at all, aside from the story from previous generation, who survived the massacre or limited history of the lycan.
He carried the whole dynasty with him.
And now when the people from the cult appeared, Caiden was not sure whether it would be a good thing for Khaos or not, because in his eyes, these people was no different from the people, who wanted to ride in the lycan dynasty’s banner to get what they wanted.
They couldn’t care less what Khaos wanted and how he was, as long as he carried his duty as the last lycan and the vengeance, they would march behind him and whenever they thought Khaos was going astray from their goal, they would ‘straighten’ him up.
Khaos had never said anything about it. He lived with that sense of duty and Caiden knew how great the pressure that people around him put on him.
“Do you think she will survive twenty more curses?” Khaos asked, he tucked her in and stood next to the bed, staring at Zuri with impassive expression.
“If by survive means she is alive, I think she will be alive in the end… but, I am not sure if she will be the same.” Caiden voiced out his own thought honestly. “You can feel it too now, she has changed a lot and the voices and the hallucinations…” Caiden didn’t finish his words, because he knew Khaos what he was going to say.
Her personality had changed. She became very intense and erratic, she was rather feral now.
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