***
It had been four hours since Khaos arrived in the Great Palace and looked for Zury.
And during these four hours, he had been dragging Declan with him, his blood splattered on the floor, he was dying because of the blood loss.
Yet, whenever he was going to lose his consciousness, Chaos would make sure he woke up and felt everything, every second of the pain. He wouldn’t let him to close his eyes neither he would let him to find the comfort of being unconscious.
This was what Declan had put Zuri through for years. He caused her so much pain, and what he had to endure now was only a glimpse of it.
He should have been very grateful that Khaos was rather merciful toward him, since he didn’t kill him right away. This was a torture that he let Zuri succumbed on it and he would avenge her her.
If he could go so far to avenge the family that he had ever met, to crack his brain, to fulfill their demand for the revenge, then he would go that far too to avenge his mate.
After all, they were right about one thing about him; he wouldn’t allow them to complete the beauty blood because he didn’t want to put Zuri in more pain than she already had.
However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t. He still couldn’t protect her because the enemy didn’t come from outside. The enemy was inside and Khaos had to fight his own people to protect his mate.
It was one thing to fight your enemy, but it was entirely different thing when you had to fight your own people.
This was crazy to think how things turned out like this. They wouldn’t have ever thought this would be the end of it.
Khaos then glanced at Declan, who looked like he was going to pass out again, but then the lycan smashed his head against the wall to wake him up.
He jerked up and moaned in pain.
“Do you still refuse to speak?” Khaos tried to follow the scent of the magic users, but it was to no avail, since apparently, they used some trick to put their scent all over the palace, so there was no way to follow them.
“My great lycan, I have kept my eyes on you for years.” Declan furrowed his brows. He didn’t fight Khaos at all. “Think about all of the sacrifices that you have done. Will you let it go to the drain because of her?”
Khaos glanced at Declan disdainfully, while he kept talking. He was half awake now. The pain was too much and he had lost so much blood, yet he was still yapping.
“Think about your family, think about the enemy who had wrong your people. Think about the revenge, the pain that they caused to your people and your follower, to your loyalist. The people who had been showing you nothing but loyalty, the people who died for your family. This revenge is not yours only. This revenge is the revenge for all the people here who was wronged for the massacre thirty years ago. Think about that. Please, stop for a while and think about that.”
But, as the answer, Khaos smashed his head against the wall again and then kicked his body across the empty hallway.
Khaos then walked slowly, carefully, so he could hear or see if there was something, anything that indicated Zuri was nearby, but there was nothing.
It was hard to find her, and when the night came, all the warriors had come to surround the palace, Caiden also came with them.
He immediately went to Khaos and asked how the situation here. He was shocked to see Declan was there.
However, before he could ask any question Khaos had told him to go back to Greywolf pack.
“Why?” Caiden started to protest. “I just arrived here and you wanted to send me back to Greywolf pack? Have you found Zuri?”
Khaos ignored Caiden’s question, as he told him to go back to Greywolf pack and stay there.
“Don’t leave the pack no matter what.”
“But, why?” Caiden couldn’t understand with this order.
“This is a direct order.”
Caiden opened his mouth and closed it again, but he couldn’t find the right word, yet when Khaos turned around and was about to leave, Caiden immediately stopped him again.
“Why?” Caiden’s expression looked serious. He was dying to know about the reason behind it. “I am just arrived, but why I have to go to Greywolf pack? It’s a few days from here.”
If the situation was different, he wouldn’t argue with Khaos. He would love to spend his time in his pack, but he could sense something was wrong.
Caiden looked at Khaos with bewilderment. “What? What happened with Zury? Something happened with her?” If this lycan acted strangely at time like this, his only conclusion was something happened to Zuri, despite he couldn’t understand how it related.
Instead of answering his question, Khaos look at him. He asked one of the Warriors to take away Declan, so he could talk with only Caiden.
“Who are you loyal to?”
“What?” Caiden was taken aback with this sudden question.
“Do I have your loyalty?”
Caiden blinked his eyes, he couldn’t understand why he was being asked about this question. Therefore, his answer was very obvious.
“Of course, I am loyal to you. What’s going on?” He asked even more confused.
“Are you sure your loyalty is with me?”
“Khaos, I don’t understand what are you trying to talk about, because my loyalty is always with you. If you are talking about the past, I am sorry, that was a mistake, a terrible one. I know how wrong I was. But my loyalty is always with you, you know that.”
“Good, then I want to see whether that’s true or not. Stay in the Greywolf pack and stay there until I said otherwise. If you leave, then I know your loyalty is bullshit.”
“What?” Caiden scrunched his brows. The confusion was killing him.
However, Khaos didn’t offer him another explanation. He turned around and walk away. “Leave. No more question.”
And with that, Khaos left.
Caiden knew the situation was not right, it was getting serious, but why would Khaos send him away instead of letting him to help? And why it had anything to do with his loyalty? He should know that he was very loyal to him.
However, Caiden had a bad feeling about it. Something was not right, Yet, at this moment, he had no other way to know what was that, and his only option was to go back to Graywolf pack, since that was apparently the only way for him to prove his loyalty toward Khaos.
Actually, Caiden would get his answer soon. He would find out why he was being sent away and it would indeed test his loyalty toward Khaos.
***
Zuri condition was not really great. He was having this withdrawal and also the side effect of the curse. It was like a hell for her. Her body was trembling, she felt very cold. She couldn’t even open her eyes and a gush of wind alone was a torture.
But then, when the sun set, the magic users started to show some movement.
This was what Lorent had been waiting for since he knew there was something not right with them. He then proceeded to stand in front of Zuri to stop them from doing whatever they were going to do to her.
Zuri would have laughed at his attempt if she was not in so much pain right now, since he was the one, who brought them into this situation.
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