“Khaos!” Gayle growled at him. He was insane. The lycan had gone insane! “You can’t do something like that!”
“I can and I will, so you can either stay away from me or I can burn you along with those people.”
For a moment, there was a heavy silence between them. Probably, Khaos could feel it, the shift in Gayle’s loyalty for him, yet he was too powerful for Gayle to do something against him. All of the warriors also knew about that.
The night went so quiet, as the pale moonlight shone above them, but when Khaos turned around and was about to leave, Gayle finally spoke, breaking the silence between them.
“You know that it’s not like her, right? You can feel it too. There is no way you can’t feel that. She is not Zuri. She is the manifestation of Devil.” Khaos should have known it was not her. “The real Zuri wouldn’t do something like this without any remorse. Zuri will feel bad for hurting others intentionally, especially when she had to lose control over the voices in her head. She will never intentionally hurt someone else and feel not even an ounce of regret or even guilt for what she has done. You know it’s not her, right?”
Khaos stared at Gayle for a second longer and the gamma wished what he said reached him, but he was completely wrong.
“It’s her.”
Gayle said nothing else, as he watched Khaos walked away. He balled his fists, didn’t know what else to do. He didn’t want this, but he didn’t think he could follow the lycan’s craziness. Someone should put stop in this.
***
After six months, Caiden finally couldn’t take it anymore. He decided to leave Blackthorne pack and shift into his beast to go to Three Deadly Ways.
He went straight to the Great Palace, not only because he needed the answer from Khaos, but also Mabel had gone crazy. It affected the twins and he couldn’t take it anymore.
Probably another reason aside from why Caidan wanted to meet with Chaos, it was because he wanted to escape from his family.
One day, Mabel would be calm enough, but the way she was being quiet, it was very disturbing and the twins could feel it. They kept asking about their father and every time they asked their mother, Mabel would go crazy.
She would start screaming, crying, and then trashing anything that she could reach. At this point Caiden kinda knew that the twins must have known that their father would never come back home, even though none of them said anything about it.
Thankfully, Nania was there, she helped with the twins, so they could cope up with the situation and also Rian was very helpful as well. The little boy was calm enough to comfort the twins.
And now, when Caidan reached the Great Palace, the first person that he saw Gayle. He entered the main hall and met with the gamma, who looked shocked to see him.
“What are you doing here?!” Gayle immediately rushed toward him.
“Where is chaos?” Caiden asked.
“You can’t be here.” Gayle knew about the deal, about the order from Khaos to Caiden. That was why it took him six months before he finally came.
The waiting was too much for Caiden to handle, he couldn’t wait any longer.
“But you cannot be here. Khaos will not be happy to see you here.”
Caiden simply glared at him. “Where is Chaos?” he asked in deep voice. He tried to track his scent, but he couldn’t find it. It almost felt like he had never lived here before.
But then Khaos’s scent was always very subtle, even before he got the power of the Lycan and now, once he had this power, his scent was completely gone. They couldn’t track him at all.
“Caiden, think twice about it. Go back to Blackburn pack and stay there until Khaos said otherwise. The situation is not very conducive here. You will only put your life in danger.”
However, before Gayle could persuade Caidan to leave the Great Palace, his eyes widened. He stared at something behind Caidan, which made the latter turned around and found Khaos was standing ten steps away from them.
He didn’t feel him at all. He didn’t smell his scent. He didn’t feel his presence until he saw him. How could that be possible? Even before, it was not like that.
However, one thing that get Caiden’s attention the most was his eyes. His eyes were very red.
Caiden was stunned and when Khaos walked, it almost looked like he didn’t even touch the ground. Somehow, he felt this ominous feeling as if he was the prey in front of a very strong predator.
His whole body was trembling and he lowered his head unconsciously. He couldn’t deny the strong urge to flee. That was his survival instinct that told him to save his life.
Meanwhile, Khaos walked toward them. He stopped three steps away from Caiden and Gayle.
“So, you are here?” He tilted his head. Not only his presence and his appearance that changed, but his voice too. It was deeper and heavier. “I don’t remember, I allow you to come.”
Caiden lowered his head even more, his chin touched his chest. He teeth cluttered, Khaos’s presence was very strong to the point it was suffocating. How could that be possible?
Yet, despite the fear that exuded from Khaos, Caiden steeled his heart as he had to ask Khaos about his father.
“Khaos, please…” his voice was small, he was stuttering. “I- I need to k- know…”
Khaos looked very callous and calculative. He tilted his head, as if he was thinking what to say. “So, do you want to see your father, Caiden?” There was this tinge of amusement in his voice. “Fine.” He nodded. “I will let you see him.”
Gayle and Caiden were surprised, they didn’t even think Khaos would let Caidan to see Ezra. Didn’t he die? Or did they make a mistake?
But then before they could respond to the suggestion, Khaos already opened his palm, as the shadow move around his body, as if he was in control of this creature and suddenly from the black shadow that looked darker than the night, a figure emerged from it and Caidan felt like his heart stopped beating.
The shadow looked like a dark liquid, its texture looked like a big pool of black ink in Caiden and Gayle’s eyes and from within it, a figure emerged. This figure came to the surface.
It was Caiden’s father. Ezra…
At first it was only the shadows around Khaos that expanded. It looked like a really disturbing sight, where the shadow turned into a living creature and from within, Ezra’s figure emerged from it.
The shadow created an illusion like a dark waterfall. They could see nothing, but this darkness behind the lycan.
At first Caidan and Gayle couldn’t see who was that, but after they realized the feature of that man, which slowly reconstructed into someone they knew and then lifted his head, they gasped. Horror filled their eyes. It was Ezra.
Obviously, Gayle and Caiden were dumbstruck with the realization, they didn’t think they would see Ezra in such situation. That man was standing there, look like he was alive, but there was no life in his dull eyes at all.
His eyes were empty, they were dead.
“W- What? W- What is going on?”
Caiden and Gayle asked at the same time.
“How? H- How can this be possible?” Caiden shook his head as if he was trying to get rid of the image. It disturbed him, and he couldn’t help it.
It was very disturbing to know that your father, whom you thought had died, actually was still alive. And here he was.
And for a few moment, Caiden couldn’t do anything else but stared at his father. His father was moving, He was walking toward them.
“Khaos… What… What the meaning of this? How could you?” Caiden stumbled with his words. “How… what have you done?”
Gayle was at loss for word. He couldn’t take his eyes off of Ezra, while Khaos’s eyes fixed on Caidan, who was trembling in fear.
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