Chapter 114: COMPLICATED SITUATION
'Why did you hurt me?'
The question echoed in Khaos's head. He didn't hurt directly, but he didn't do anything when they hurt her.
The way she trusted him and the way she attached to him. The way she was obsessed with him... Khaos was sure that Zuri would have believed every word he said, even when he told her the sun rose in the west.
The connection between them was not real. It was an attachment between the Shell and the lycan.
However, her question settled in the back of his head along with her younger image when she hugged herself in the middle of the cold winter night.
Khaos didn't do anything that time and he didn't do anything to help her this time.
"You can't falter, Khaos," Caiden said, he grimaced with his own word. "You know this is necessary and important."
Caiden was still contemplating whether or not he needed to inform Bryden and his father, who currently were in Great Lunar kingdom, but now he was against it.
This matter was too complicated to be explained in a single letter and moreover, he didn't want to go against Khaos's judgement.
He thought Khaos was swayed by his infatuation to Zuri, but now, he understood the attachment between the two of them and why the connection happened.
"Open the door." Khaos nodded at the closed door in front of him with Zuri was still unconscious in his arms. Those black magic users had erased her memories about the ritual and she would wake up the next day.
They said she would be fine. Her body was a perfect Shell and they actually could put the fourth curse if Khaos wanted, so they could make the progress of the beauty blood faster.
However, Khaos didn't say anything and took Zuri away. His expression was unreadable. They expected to be praised by the alpha, but apparently what they had done didn't impress him at all. The worshippers were left disappointed.
Caiden opened the door for him and then caught a glance at Zuri's sleeping face. He left the scene after the first curse inflicted on her, but he could still hear her scream.
Her scream filled the entire mansion. There was a reason why this place was secluded. The gamma felt like his ears would be forever rang with her scream at this point.
"It's twenty more, right?" Caiden asked, trying to engage with Khaos, because the alpha had been very quiet. He couldn't read his mind, neither he could mindlink him. He blocked him and everyone else. "I think it will be done faster than we expected. With that, she doesn't need to suffer anymore."
Caiden didn't know the right word to say to him, but he felt for Khaos.
Ever since he could understand how this world worked, the first thing he was introduced to was vengeance, the revenge from the previous generation was burdened to his shoulders.
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Khaos must to avenge the people that was his blood, but he had never known about them at all, aside from the story from previous generation, who survived the massacre or limited history of the lycan.
He carried the whole dynasty with him.
And now when the people from the cult appeared, Caiden was not sure whether it would be a good thing for Khaos or not, because in his eyes, these people was no different from the people, who wanted to ride in the lycan dynasty's banner to get what they wanted.
They couldn't care less what Khaos wanted and how he was, as long as he carried his duty as the last lycan and the vengeance, they would march behind him and whenever they thought Khaos was going astray from their goal, they would 'straighten' him up.
Khaos had never said anything about it. He lived with that sense of duty and Caiden knew how great the pressure that people around him put on him.
"Do you think she will survive twenty more curses?" Khaos asked, he tucked her in and stood next to the bed, staring at Zuri with impassive expression.
"If by survive means she is alive, I think she will be alive in the end... but, I am not sure if she will be the same." Caiden voiced out his own thought honestly. "You can feel it too now, she has changed a lot and the voices and the hallucinations..." Caiden didn't finish his words, because he knew Khaos what he was going to say.
Her personality had changed. She became very intense and erratic, she was rather feral now.
"You told me about how the Shell will become in the future... they lost themselves, their mind..." Caiden furrowed his brows. "If one lost those... can you even tell if she is actually alive? She will become a shell." Caidan grimaced. "Probably that's why they called them 'Shell', because that's what was left when everything is over."
A shell without a soul.
That was what Zuri needed to face and now, she had started to lose herself.
"You can leave, Caiden." Khaos didn't even look at the gamma when he told him to leave.
Caiden wanted to argue, but he held his tongue and nodded. He left the room, but Rhett was already there to check on Khaos.
"Don't bother him," Rhett said, he looked at Rhett sharply. He didn't like this man. He showed his loyalty to the alpha, but it was too fast to say that he was a good news for them, despite that cult he had.
"I only wanted to make sure the alpha is alright."
"He is alright."
Rhett didn't listen to him, he stretched out his hand to grab the door handle, attempting to check the alpha on his own, but the gamma grabbed his wrist to stop him.
This time, he growled dangerously. "Step back, Rhett. I don't care who you are. I will break
your arm if you tried to enter the room."
Rhett was not happy with the threat.