Seeing that, Caiden shifted back into his human form as well. He furrowed his brows deeply. “Khaos, don’t come near her, there is something not right with her.” He couldn’t help, but feel this trembling in his heart. That was a close call!
How could a woman, untrained one on top of that, got his back?! That hurt his pride as a warrior. That’s completely not right.
“Khaos, don’t go! She is not in her right mind!” Caiden grabbed Khaos’s shoulder and pointed his finger at Silas, who was so pale, pooled in his own blood. It was not sure, when he lost consciousness. His eyes closed, he looked like he was dead if it was not for the raising and falling of his chest.
Caiden flinched when Zuri growled at him, she glared at his hand that was on Khaos’s shoulder. She didn’t like it when he touched him. Her eyes were crazy.
However, Khaos shrugged his concern off and approached Zuri. He stretched out his hand, as The kept his eyes on her.
[Khaos!] Caiden warned him through mindlink.
[Back off.]
Caiden halted in his step to approach Khaos again, he didn’t even realize that he held his breath when Zuri took tentative step toward Khaos and then… hugged him. She pressed her face against his chest and circled her arms around his body.
The killing intent in her dissipated and now, she was simply a docile woman, who sought comfort from the alpha. Her fierceness vanished into thin air.
Khaos hugged her back and patted her back, as she snuggled against his chest, whimpering. This sight was unbelievable for Caiden.
How could he almost lose to this woman?! She looked harmless and compliant, as she submitted to the alpha!
“Take care of him.” Khaos nodded at Silas, while he still held Zuri in his arms. His expression was unreadable.
Hearing the order, Caiden mindlinked some of the warriors to do the labor work, but he checked on him to make sure he was not going to die and his healing ability could prevent that.
“He is alive,” Caiden said, he scratched the back of his head, as two warriors came to his side and take Silas away. “What are you going to do with… her?” Caiden frowned. Zuri buried her face against Khaos’s chest and had not yet moved ever since she hugged him.
“You can leave.”
“But…” Caiden wanted to protest, but the look on Khaos’s face must have told him that he was not going to budge.
In the end, the gamma didn’t have another choice, but to walk away from there, yet not until The voiced out his thought.
“She is dangerous, Khaos. She is a natural.” Obviously, he was talking about Zuri, but the later didn’t even flinch when he painted her as a dangerous creature.
Of course, Khaos knew about that. Zuri was indeed a natural.
“Leave, Caiden. I am not telling you for the third time.”
Leaving Khaos with Zuri after she showed him how good her fighting skill was, felt like it was not a wise choice, but the gamma pressed his lips and swallowed back his opinion.
He looked back over his shoulder and Zuri was still in the same position.
Once there was only the two of them, Khaos fisted his hand on her hair and pulled her head back slightly. He saw the look on her face for the first time. She was crying. She didn’t make any sound that indicating she had been crying.
But, when she opened her mouth to speak, it was the most heartbreaking voice that Khaos had
ever heard.
“I am not crazy…” Zuri said. “I am not crazy. I am not crazy.”
She looked terrified, like a cornered beast. A wounded one.
Her voice laced with fear and agony. She tried to look brave, as if she could take the world head on, but Khaos could see through her fa?ade, where behind the feral beast that he saw earlier, was a little girl who had gone through so much.
She was scared.
And it reminded him of little Zuri, who was hugging herself under the maple tree in the middle of cold night.
“I swear, I am not crazy.” She shook her head, trying to convince him.
Zuri knew she would crumble if Khaos said the word. Everyone around her called her with that name to the point she believed them, but if Khaos said it too, she didn’t think there was no way back for her.
If the word came from his mouth, she knew it was final. She was indeed crazy. Something was not right with her head, just like what they said.
“I know.” Khaos leaned over and kissed her forehead. “You are not crazy.”
Zuri blinked her eyes when she heard that. She wanted to hear it again, but at the same time, she couldn’t believe there was someone, who thought she was not.
Meanwhile, Khaos wondered, how many time people around her called her crazy to the point, she wanted to cling desperately for his validation on her own state of mind.
It was not the feral beast that Khaos saw in him, just like how Caiden described her, but a tortured soul, who had been longing for a touch of gentleness.
And that was what Khaos gave to her. He peppered kisses on her face, until she sighed in content.
“Where is the secret passageway to the pack house, can you show me?” Khaos asked, as he kissed her cheek.
“Yes.” Zuri nodded eagerly.
Little did Zuri know, a ‘leash’ was not always in form of strict rule, harsh word and punishment, but it could also take form of gentleness.
With that, Zuri took Khaos to the secret passageway that she told him earlier. She held his hand tightly, as if she didn’t want to let him go. He was hers.
‘Mine.’
Said the voice in her head repeatedly. This strong feeling was alarming.
They didn’t talk about what happened earlier. Zuri didn’t want to bring the topic up because she was afraid Khaos would change his mind and see her differently, but she wondered, why he didn’t ask any question to her when he must have a lot of things to ask, in order to understand her.
‘It’s because he didn’t care about you. Why would he care about those things as long as you are useful to him?’
The secret passage was at the north of the pack’s fortress, hidden in the bushes, you wouldn’t be able to find it if you didn’t look into it carefully.
“Here.” Zuri and Rhett created this secret passage for her to go out of the pack house without her father’s knowledge. This was the only way for her to see the world outside of her pack, to know and learn a lot of things from her brother.
Rhett was her favorite and he would always be.
It was Zuri, who entered first followed by Khaos, but she stopped in her track when this familiar scent hit her.
“Rhett?” Zuri perked up when she noticed her brother was there. He had been waiting for her at the other end of the secret passage.
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