Untamed: The Alpha

463 CHANGED OF HEART

Zuri wondered, until when she could keep with this because what she did now start to eat her alive.

She didn’t mind, she wouldn’t even blink an eye if it was a ruffian or a hoodlum, or some jerk out there, that could be Chaos’s shattered soul. She would gladly present them to him and watched as life drew out of their last breath, but the time like this was when she felt helpless.

Why it should be this poor innocent soul? She couldn’t understand the logic behind it. What kind of transgression that they could commit?

Wasn’t Chaos’s shattered soul should be someone that brought chaos to this realm?

However, seeing this family of four, what kind of crime that they would do? Zuri even wondered if they were even able to watch a livestock was being slaughtered.

“That one,” Zuri said in placid tone, but her hazel’s eyes casted down, while she raised her hand to point at the older child of family of four, who was having their picnic not too far from where they were standing.

An emotion that she had tried to suppress came to the surface. She hated doing this. She hated herself for ruining someone else’s life. Why it should be that child? What he could possibly do?

The young boy was only the age of twelve or thirteen.

On the other hand, like usual, Chaos didn’t even have a second thought to approach that family, absorbed his soul and then left.

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Most of the time, the people that related to his shattered soul would forget about their existence, but there would rare case, where they would remember them.

When that happened, Chaos would completely erase their memory about his shattered soul altogether. Therefore, there was nothing to be worried about it.

Zuri had witnessed something like this for more than a decade, she should have felt numb about this, but all she could think of was the guilty that gnawed at her heart when she watched how happy those family was.

They must be out to enjoy their time together, to have a vacation, but now their son would be disappeared before their eyes and they would never remember him.

Zuri knew that she shouldn’t let this feeling to sink so deep, because it would only trouble her and make her unable to focus at the task at hand.

This kind of situation was particularly hard for her to face.

“Hm?” Chaos turned around and gave her a questioning look. “What is it?” he asked, his brows furrowed.

At first, Zuri didn’t understand what he meant, until she saw her hand that held his arm. As if electrocuted, she immediately drew her hand away from him, but couldn’t offer a reasonable reason why she did that.

“What happened?” Chaos focused his attention on Zuri and realized the strange emotion on her expression.

On the other hand, Zuri couldn’t tell him what was actually in her mind right now, but Chaos seemed to see how distraught she was.

He stretched out his hand and caressed her cheek, as the wind blew passed them, playing with their long hair.

Gathering her courage, Zuri looked up to him and watch the way he stared at her. His blue eyes were a few shades darker, but he looked at her tenderly, before he leaned over to kiss her temple.

This gentle act made Zuri felt conflicted. She felt so guilty for feeling guilty because she took pity on that boy. She wanted to focus only on Chaos.

Yet, a lot of things happened during these few years and she could feel her resolution was akin to sand in her grip, where she could feel she was slowly losing it.

Chaos was still the same, she loved him without question, but the thing that happened around them made it difficult for her, her will was shaken and she could feel it.

“Go home,” Chaos said, as he kissed both Zuri’s eyes, forcing her to shut them and slowly, she lost his touch.

And when Zuri opened her eyes, she found herself was already in her own room, standing in the middle of her room that she had not yet occupied for months, since she would spend her time with Chaos, Knox or she simply would go outside on her own mission.

All of sudden, Zuri felt so tired and fell to the ground, her heart was so heavy, knowing that Chaos realized what she was thinking.

She didn’t mean that way. There was no way she would think of him badly, but it started to bother her conscience...

Zuri didn’t want Chaos to notice her changed of heart, not because she did not care about him, but there was a limit for something that was acceptable for her.

In the end, Zuri realized, her conscience was not really dead like the way she thought it was.

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“Get up!” Liam shouted at Aiden, as he watched the little boy was staggering on his feet, trying to raise his hands, his face blanched, sweat dripped from his forehead. “Move faster!”

For now, Aiden was sparing with another boy in his age, but not even once he could lay a punch on his opponent and this made him frustrated, but the more he became frustrated the more he couldn’t concentrate.

He wanted to win this, because he knew what kind of look that his father would give to him after this. He would be very disappointed to him, since he was his first son.

Aiden felt embarrassed because not only his father, who watched this, but also some of the warrior, who were resting after training and also his twin.

Emma was standing next to Liam, her golden eyes stared at him, while her lips curled into a sweet smile, as she encouraged him to fight back, but the problem was; Aiden felt his legs were about to give up.

His face, where his opponent had punched, felt numb, his hands sore and he wanted to call it off, but he was afraid of his father.

Aiden glanced at Liam, but that was a wrong move, because when he saw the disappointment that mixed with anger on the alpha’s eyes, he lost his concentration and his opponent punched him right on the face, which made him fell to the ground again with a loud cry, as he could feel blood spurted from his nose.

Everyone there gasped and asked the alpha to stop this fight, after all they were still a child and didn’t need to do sparing to this extend. They were still young and there were a lot of time to be trained.

On the other hand, Aiden could feel his father disappointment, even from the sound of his footsteps, he could feel it.

Currently, the little boy was curling his body on the ground, trying so hard not to cry, but a sob escaped from his split lips and then followed by the other, until he was left hyperventilating and his whole body was trembling.

Aiden flinched when his father scooped his body up and carried him away wordlessly, while he shut his eyes, didn’t dare to meet his father’s eyes, but he still could feel his anger rolled from his body.

“How dare you hit my brother like that?!” Emma shouted and then rushed toward Liam and Aiden, she gave a fierce glare at the young boy, named Richt.

“He is so weak,” Richt said in silence voice, stating the truth, as he blinked his eyes, while the other warrior immediately yanked him to go and change his clothes, he called it a day for today training.

“Aiden is not weak!” Emma retorted, but that only made Aiden felt even worst, he felt like he was about to cry out loud when he heard that, because his father’s body stiffened, though he didn’t utter a single word.

Aiden didn’t know where his father would take him, but all he could hear was Emma’s voice, talking nonstop about how it was unfair for Aiden to be beaten up.

It looked like she was angry for him, but at the same time, she reminded Liam how useless Aiden was and indeed, how weak he was, as the alpha first son.

Because Aiden was still a child, so his healing ability had not yet developed fully, therefore with all the bruises that he sustained, he needed to see Emily or Ariana to check on him.

“What happened to him?” Emily immediately approached Liam when she saw Aiden in his arms, she remembered the young shifter was all well and happy in his mother chamber, playing with his sister, but now he was black and blue.

“Take care of him,” Liam said, as he laid him down on the bed. At this point, Aiden had stopped crying, but he still covered his face with both of his bruised arms.

Ariana was away, so it was only Emily, who was there. “Is this because of fighting again?” She didn’t want to sound like she rebuked the alpha, but she couldn’t help it.

After all, this was not for the first time Aiden came in this condition, but she could say that this was the worse.

“Take care of him, I will come again this afternoon.” Liam took Emma’s hand and both of them walked out of the room, leaving Aiden in Emily’s care.

Once the little boy sensed his father was no longer inside the room, he started to cry again.

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