horrendous, which Khaos couldn’t see.
“They said to kill all the pack member of this pack. I need to kill them all.” Zuri shook her head. “I don’t want to do that, but they told me to do it.”
“Why they want you to do it?” Khaos patted her back, hoped it was enough to calm her down slightly.
Zuri shook her head, sobbing pitifully. “I don’t know… I don’t know why they want to kill them.” Zuri pressed her palms against her ears to prevent herself hearing voices.
However, there was no point of doing that when the voices came from her head. She was doomed there was no way to escape this.
“Khaos, tell them to stop. I don’t want to do it.” Zuri clawed on her own ears, but Khaos caught her hands to stop her. This must be the reason why he smelled her blood. She clawed herself.
Yes, Khaos had removed all the items from this room that she could use to hurt herself, but she was still a shifter, it was within her capabilities to do harm on herself.
This time, Khaos pressed his palms against her ears, as she stared at her teary eyed face. He kissed her forehead and then both of her eyes, as she whimpered. Her dress stained with blood and she looked like a mess.
This was the longest Zuri had gone without her medicine and her hallucination was getting worse. Her mind was playing trick on her to the point she didn’t know whether she was seeing or hearing reality or it was only in her mind. She wanted this to stop because she couldn’t take it anymore.
Khaos continued to pepper her face with kisses to distract her, until her body became visibly relax, but she still had her eyes closed.
“Khaos, I am scared…” Zuri opened her eyes. The voices had gone, but this time they became more violence and vicious than usual and she couldn’t take it. They showed her images after images of scary thing.
“I am here.” Khaos pulled her back into his arms, hugging her tightly. “There is nothing to be scared about. Just focus on me.” He ran his fingers on her hair to smooth the knots.
Zuri did what she was told. She focused on his touch, his gentleness and the way he touched her hair. His scent, his warmth, his strong beating heart and it brought little peace into the craze in her mind.
His steady heartbeat was the only thing that was the only solid and stable thing in her world and she clung to it. She followed his breathing and matched their heartbeats, until they were beating in the same rhythm, only by then, Zuri could calm herself down.
Once Zuri fell asleep, Khaos carried her to bed and lay her down there.
They needed to find the healer that Zuri used to visit to get her medicine, but she had fled from the pack and apparently none of the pack member remembered that she was a healer.
Why would Zuri’s mother take her there? Did she know that the healer was an impostor?
The more Khaos was thinking about this, the more question he had instead of an answer and for now, he couldn’t go to ask Rhett about it, because the man was still stubborn enough not to say anything.
In that case, Zuri had to suffer a little bit longer.
Fortunately, it didn’t last for long, because after twenty days of being tortured day and night, finally Rhett gave up and demanded to see Khaos, so he could tell the alpha himself what kind of information he had about beauty blood and answered the question about what happened to Zuri.
However, Khaos didn’t immediately come to see him, he only came to Rhett’s cell after three days of his demand.
“Speak,” Khaos said.
The reason why he didn’t come right away simply because he didn’t want Rhett to have any idea that he was so eager to listen to his explanation, which he could use as a leverage against him.
“At least, give me water first, because it will be a long story…” Rhett said derisively. He was covered in blood. His blood. His abuser didn’t even bother to clean him up after a rough beating and torture, thus during these twenty days, he had accumulated dried blood on him.
Khaos mindlinked one of his warriors and two of them entered the cell with two buckets of water, where they simply splashed it on him.
The water didn’t clean the dried blood, but at least, he got the water that he needed.
Currently, they were back in the same cell. Khaos was leaning against the bar with the door to the cell was left opened, there was no point to lock it when Rhett had zero chance to escape.
“I don’t have much time, if you don’t speak now, I will make sure the next torture will take your life.” That was not true, Khaos still needed him and the information he had, but at this point, Rhett couldn’t tell the bluff.
Rhett was sitting on the floor, pooled in the puddle of water, he was soaked and slightly shuddered because the weather was getting cold and he was not wearing anything. His nakedness was a humiliation for someone like him, but that was the least of his concern.
“Let me ask you one more thing first,” Rhett said, his voice was hoarse, as he used to scream all day and night during the torture. “Are you… a lycan?” Rhett raised his head, his eyes met Khaos. “I have thought about it and everything made sense. The reason why you couldn’t shift is because you will be exposed once you did. Am I right?”
Rhett looked passionate when he talked about this.
On the other hand, hearing what Rhett said, Khaos chuckled. His reaction was not something that Rhett expected. The alpha didn’t take this seriously at all. He looked relax.
Did he make a mistake? No. Rhett believed to is own judgment. The more he thought about it, the more it did make sense, especially with Khaos’s age and the reason why heh couldn’t shift into his beast.
Not because he was a defected child with good brain in his head, just like what people thought of him, but because there was a darkest secret behind it.
More so, Khaos was incredibly strong, even in his human form. The lycan was well known to be able to take down werewolf even in their human form, since they were the strongest shifter alive, the highest of their food chain.
It was a pity that their existence and their history had vanished from this realm, just like their very own existence.
“That’s a bold statement.”
Khaos didn’t agree with Rhett, but he didn’t deny it either, yet the way he reacted to it was not something that Rhett expected, he couldn’t even read this alpha.
“Keep talking before I am running out of patience.” Khaos tapped his feet, indicating that he became impatient and got bored.
For a moment, Rhett was speechless, but then he bet on his luck when he said the next word. “I have the scriptures,” he said. “I can show you where they are only with one condition.”
“You are not talking condition with me.”
However, Rhett ignored his statement. “If you are the lycan, I will pledge my loyalty to you.”
This time, his statement surprised Khaos. He didn’t even expect this would be what he proposed. Still, he didn’t say anything, nor he showed it on his face.
“What benefit that I can get from having you as my adherent?”
“I know more about the lycan than you do.”
With the scriptures in his hand, that was probably true, but one thing that Rhett failed to realize was the entire history of the lycan, as the old dynasty, wouldn’t be contained in scriptures only.
They had a very long history, thus the scriptures wouldn’t be able to cover the entirety of their generations, yet Khaos said nothing.
He let Rhett to have his time to ramble about what he thought was right.
“Release me and I can show you the scriptures.” Rhett followed his instinct, he was very sure that Khaos was the last lycan that was rumored.
A moment later, a warrior came with a cloak and handed it over to Khaos, in which he threw it toward Rhett for him to wear.
But, Rhett grimaced. He needed a shower too, but he knew better that a beggar couldn’t choose.
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