Zuri opened her eyes, but it was still the same. Only darkness that greeted her. Though she couldn’t see, she knew she was not inside her room.
“Kh- Khaos?”
She hated herself for calling his name the first thing she did. She did it out of instinct and he was the first person that came to her mind, even though he was one of the sources of her pain.
It was not the fluffy bed, but solid ground beneath her. The coldness bit her skin. There was no trace of warmth whatsoever.
“Khaos?”
Zuri raised her hand only to realize that she had been chained. The burning sensation on her wrists and ankles letting her know that she was chained with silver. One of the methods to prevent her from shifting into her beast.
“Khaos! Khaos! Khaos!”
Her voice echoed. She didn’t have any idea where she was. Everything was so scary for her, especially when she couldn’t see.
And as if to make matter worse, she started to hear the voices in her head, telling her all the horrible things that she didn’t want to hear.
“Aarrghhh!!!” Zuri hit her own head with her fists, in attempt to stop the voices. They were not helping at all. They scared her more than anything.
She was not able to see anything and Khaos was not here, she knew he was not here and now, she was in this strange place. She was going to be consumed by her own madness.
Bit by bit, her sanity was chipped in.
When hitting her own head didn’t work, Zuri started to venture her surroundings, but the chain refrained her from moving further away, the only thing that she could feel was this chain and the wall behind her.
“Stop! Stop! Stop!”
Zuri slammed her head against the wall, she didn’t stop even when blood oozed out from her wound, but suddenly someone yanked her and held her down, preventing her from hurting herself even more.
“No, Zuri! Stop! Stop!”
The voice was familiar, Zuri knew who was this, but he was not the one that she wanted.
“Zuri, please stop! Don’t fight me!” Rhett yelled at her, as he tackled her down to the ground. It took a lot of effort for him to calm her down, but once Zuri stopped struggling, both of them were panting, exhausted. “It’s okay… everything will be okay, you need to trust me, okay?”
Zuri didn’t answer that, she stared at the distance. She couldn’t see the dim light of this room, she couldn’t see her surroundings, but she knew it was Rhett.
“Let’s finish the curse, okay?” Rhett finally said, as he loosened his grip on her. “Your pain will be over soon enough. It’s okay, Zuri. I will take care of you. I will do everything for you to survive this.”
Still, Zuri didn’t answer him, instead she was mumbling something incoherently.
“What? What did you say?” Rhett asked, he moved closer to her, so he could get the word that she said. “Zuri, what did you say?”
His ear was close enough to her lips, where he heard what she said.
“I am going to kill you.”
And it was too late for Rhett to move away when Zuri bit down his ear, tearing it apart and Rhett’s scream echoed throughout the walls.
Zuri spat out Rhett’s left ear and she started to laugh maniacally. She looked crazy, something was broken inside her. She was broken beyond repaired.
Her laughter fused with Rhett’s painful scream and a lot of more people came into the room, but Zuri couldn’t care less about them all. She kept laughing, even when they put her to sleep, she was still smiling.
Blood smeared on her lips, splattered on her face, dripped down from her chin. She looked like a menace. Even the guards were very reluctant to get closer to her, though she was still chained to the wall and was unable to shift into her beast.
Despite her corpse like body, she held so much strength, it was incredible.
Meanwhile, they took Rhett to see Glenda. One of the guards took the initiative to bring his cut off ear to the healer, in hope she could fix it.
Unfortunately, Glenda couldn’t. Rhett didn’t lose his hearing ability, but he lost his left ear. Thanked to his healing ability, he was not going to die because he lost so much blood and now, he stayed in the same room like Elijah.
However, the storm had not yet come. The real storm was in the form of the last lycan. Once he learned about Zuri’s missing, he tore the pack upside down to look for her.
Even the king was stunned when he saw his rage.
“I am not sure where the luna is, but we can make use of this situation,” Rose suggested to Dacre when the king came to her with the news.
People was still not aware of the missing Zuri, they only thought Khaos and Rhett were trying to enhance the security of the pack after what Silas was trying to do.
“What do you mean?” Dacre narrowed his eyes, he watched how Rose beamed when she informed him about her idea. She looked brilliant and wicked at the same time.
“This is align with your majesty’s wish. You can attack alpha Khaos by tarnishing his name first. The universe is helping you, king Dacre.” Rose talked very gracefully, as if they were not talking about the downfall of someone. “We can use the people to put down alpha Khaos.”
Dacre could see the pattern in Rose’s plan, she tended to use public sympathy. It was good idea, but it was not practical. Dacre didn’t have the patient for that, thus he handed it over for her to handle. He gave her five warriors to run her errand.
And a week later, there was this strong rumor about Zuri. The rumor said that the luna fled to Great Lunar kingdom to see for shelter and she was actually involved in the coup and the destruction of their food supply.
Of course, this put Khaos in bad light.
Yet, the alpha had another important thing to do than to care to such rumor about him. On the second day Zuri was missing, he had Rhett to see him.
“What happened with your ear?”
“I was hunting and a monster attacked me,” Rhett rehearsed the answer that he had prepared. “I am very lucky to be alive.”
Khaos looked at him for a while and when he spoke, he didn’t take his eyes off him. “Where is Zuri?”
“I don’t know. I will have told you if I knew.”
Both of them were currently in the garden, walking through the muddy ground, as the snow started to melt and new lives emerged from under the cold ground.
Suddenly, Khaos stopped walking, he looked at him closely, but Rhett’s expression didn’t betray anything.
“You know where Zuri is,” Khaos said. That was not even a question, but more like a statement. Rhett was to calm for someone, who didn’t know where Zuri was.
Despite everything, he cared for her as an older brother and also as someone, who had been inflicting curse on her all these years.
“Where is she?”
“What do you mean? I don’t know where she is…” Rhett composed himself, he frowned, feigning innocent. “If I knew, I would have told you right away, alpha…”
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