Within a few seconds, his figure had disappeared. He vanished. The darkness had devoured him. He would join his other comrades, who had betrayed Khaos, such as Bryden and Ezra.
“The same old song.”
Once the shadow dispersed, Declan’s body was also dematerialized and the shadow gradually disappeared, leaving Khaos standing there alone.
The silence was very loud inside the cell, nothing moved, as if the time stopped as well and when Khaos finally turned around to face Rhett, the latter had already resigned to his fate. He knew it would be his turn after Khaos was done with Declan.
“Do you want to say something?” Khaos was being generous at this time. He was still Zuri’s favorite brother and some of her happy memories when she was little were with him.
Yet, Rhett simply shook his head. “I would like for you to promise me something, even though I know that you will do it anyway.”
Khaos didn’t say anything, in which Rhett took it as his permission to speak.
“Promise me to take good care of Zuri.” Rhett was being genuine this time.
He might use Zuri all this time, because of Declan’s order and for the sake of Terrence’s family, but it would be a lie if he didn’t feel a genuine feeling of love for his little sister.
It was sad that his feelings for Zuri were not enough for him to stand up for her.
“I know you will take care of her,” Rhett said when Khaos’s claw elongated.
Not like how Khaos killed Declan, Ezra and Bryden, or thousands of warriors from that night, this time, Khaos killed Rhett with his own hand.
His claws ripped through his flesh and Khaos pulled out his heart, as Rhett groaned in agony, yet he didn’t fight back, even though it was a futile attempt. Instead, Rhett stared at Khaos and smiled in the end.
It might look cruel for Khaos to kill Rhett like this, but the truth was; that he gave him an honorable death. Khaos didn’t turn him into one of his creatures from the dark, but he killed him right away.
Once life left him, Rhett’s body fell to the ground, blood pooled on the floor and the smell filled the air.
Khaos stared at Rhett’s heart in his grip and burned it into nothingness. He didn’t spare him a glance when the shadow blanketed his figure and he vanished, leaving a bloody dead body.
The silence resumed.
Khaos was playing dirty, which was expected of him, but one thing that no one saw coming was the fact he gave up everything. He gave up the chance to revive the old dynasty of the lycan.
“Are you sure about this? You still have a chance to take everything and make things right,” Gayle asked. It hurt him to know that they were going to leave everything behind.
“This is the right thing,” Khaos replied. He didn’t even turn around to see the continent, where his kind’s long and precious history was held.
They were at the port, near River Creek pack. It was only a matter of time before Khaos and some of his people left this continent.
Khaos indeed left the continent, but it didn’t mean he handed it on a silver platter.
Actually, he actively ruined it.
The Three Kingdoms were in chaos right now.
With the treasures in his possession, Bairone would buy more warriors, fighters, or whatever you call them to conquer the Great Lunar Kingdom and fight the other two kingdoms. Knowing how greedy that merchant was, he must want to rule the three kingdoms.
Khaos could see in his eyes how much that man wanted power, and now he had the treasure that could give him what he wanted.
There was no way he would let it go to waste.
However, that would be a damned process and with Rose in control of Celeste kingdom and king Amidas back to the throne, since the death of his son, Khaos knew the father and daughter would give Bairone the taste of hell.
Not to mention it wouldn’t be easy to take down the Great Lunar kingdom, after all, it was the strongest kingdom in this continent.
It would be lovely to watch how everything played out…
In retrospect, Khaos was actually the cause of the fall, the chaos, the mayhem that happened in this continent.
“Why would you do this if you want to be with Zuri? Once you have your hand on the Three Kingdoms and everything within your grasp, there is no way someone will stand against you. It didn’t make any sense.” Gayle shook his head as if he was trying to understand the way Khaos’s mind worked. “You know that, right?”
Khaos stared at Gayle for a second and then looked away. He simply walked straight to one of the ships that he had purchased with the help of Zuri.
“Khaos, why do you want to hand the whole continent to Bairone?” Gayle chased after him, he was not yet done. He wanted to know the whole truth, since it would be the last chance.
“No, I didn’t hand the entire continent to Bairone. I handed him ruined kingdoms.”
Why would he want something that had been ruined, something so chaotic? Why would he want to rule a broken Kingdom in exchange for being with his mate?
It was only a matter of time before all of them fought against each other, trying to destroy one another because of their greediness. Khaos only sped up the process and initiated the inevitable.
And for him… he had something else better to do.
“Khaos…” Gayle tried. This was his last chance to get Khaos to consider his decisions about the whole thing.
However, Khaos stared at him and waited for him to finish his words, yet Gayle said nothing, because deep down, he knew exactly it was only a waste of breath to try to make Khaos change his mind.
He wouldn’t change his mind at this point, he knew that. He could see it in his eyes as they walked together to the ship where Dezgar had been waiting for them.
But, once they got on board, apparently it was not only Dezgar who was there, Lucas and his little brother were there too.
“What are you doing here?” Gayle Asked Lucas. He frowned when he saw this man, but Khaos didn’t even acknowledge him, as if it was only normal to see him on the ship.
The lycan walked away to see Zuri’s condition, while Gayle and Lucas had an argument and Rian sat quietly at the table with Dezgar beside him, handing him a glass of milk.
This little boy must have had a hard time to have someone like Lucas as his brother.
“Why I can’t be here? It’s my prerogative to be here. I can be anywhere.”
“Yes, anywhere. And you choose to be here.”
“Yes, that’s right. Is there something wrong with that?”
What pissed Gayle off was the fact that Lucas acted as if he was one of them. He sat down next to his brother and enjoy the meal that Dezgar had prepared.
Actually, Lucas was trying his hardest and use all of the connection he had to know what was going on and where Khaos actually was until he remembered that the lycan had bought ships and it was only right for him to leave this continent.
And with that knowledge, he could find him here.
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