Chapter 117: THE COMPLAINS
The way Zuri trusted Khaos was a blind faith. She looked so happy to be with him, to be close to him, to be in his arms.
"Tell me everything about Rhett," Khaos said lightly with Zuri nestled in his arms and both of them stared at the window, where the snow fell from the sky. It was afternoon, but the sunlight was dim and pale.
"Rhett?" Zuri raised her head. "Do you want to know about him?"
Khaos caressed her back, traced his hand on her protruded spines. No matter how hard he tried to keep her eating normally, apparently she kept throwing up without him knowing it and now after more than a week she fell unconscious, her body had turned into twig. She was so skinny to the point, Khaos became very cautious to even put the weight of his hand on her body. He could break her so easily.
"What do you want to know about him?"
"Is he a good brother to you?" Khaos kept his question light and casual, so he wouldn't alert Zuri, but even if he told her the truth about why he questioned Zuri about Rhett, she would answer him anyway.
"Yes. Because we are closer in age, so we get along well. Rhett taught me everything about the outside world and he also the one, who discovered my talent for business."
Zuri told Khaos everything and more.
"How did your father discover your talent?"
A furrow formed on her forehead when she heard the question, she paused for a while to think of the answer. "I am not sure, one day he just knew and then took me to handle business. It was small matter at first, but then without me knowing it, I handled almost the entire pack's businesses."
She found it weird too because her father simply knew. For someone, who did not trust other people easily, her father entrusted a business to a ten years old and on top of that a girl, it was already weird enough, but she didn't think much about it until Khaos questioned it.
"What happened? Did you find something wrong?" Zuri snuggled against his chest, she felt
most comfortable in his arms.
Khaos didn't answer the question and simply asked someone to bring food inside. He watched her eating and told her that she was not allowed to throw up. Zuri nodded, but both of them knew what she was going to do the moment Khaos didn't see her.
"Don't throw up." Khaos pinched her chin and pulled her face close to him. "I am serious, Zuri."
Zuri nodded, yet when Khaos was not around, because he couldn't stay with her all the time, she found herself bent her body and threw up the food that she ate, until she felt her throat was burning and her stomach was aching.
Tears rolled down her eyes and that was when Rhett entered the bathroom and found her in that situation. He widened his eyes, but didn't say anything when he helped her to stand up and clean herself.
He gave her a glass of water and sat her down on the sofa. He didn't seem really surprised, as if he had expected this.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
Zuri shook her head. She didn't want to talk about how weird she was, instead she leaned in for a hug. She hugged him tightly and cried silently, while Rhett consoled her.
"I am sorry, Zuri. I am sorry, but everything will be alright." He patted her back and then kissed her forehead. "It's okay."
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Zuri didn't know why he apologized to her, but she was not in the right headspace to think about that further. She wanted someone to hold her.
Meanwhile, Khaos just received a report about the royal warriors that had entered the River Creek pack's territory, under the command of Silas and the royal gamma, Luca. They would reach the gates within two days.
Tension was in the air, all the pack members were anxious. With the winter came and there was this inevitable battle, they were worried about what would happen next.
Therefore, a day before the arrival of the royal warriors, many people gathered in front of the pack house, they asked for alpha Khaos to meet with them. What drove them to do this was the news about the ships that supposed to deliver their supplies for winter.
The ships had never arrived, it meant, food would be scarce and with the upcoming battle, it would be people like them, who would take the brunt.
They voiced out their fear and concern carefully, since Khaos's presence was very strong, it was already a great deal for them to be able to stand in his presence.
"Please, alpha Khaos. I have three little children, if the battle broke out and without food for the winter, no one will survive."
"From what I heard, there are a hundred thousand royal warriors, who marched here and there will be another hundred thousand that will come, we will not stand a chance against the
king alpha, please."
"Alpha, please, have mercy on us."
"Silas, please talk to alpha Khaos... we can't afford to have a battle with the king."
"We are going to die without food supplies."
All of them voiced out their grievances along those lines. They were afraid they would be labelled as traitor and be killed, also there was threat of famine loomed over their head.
Zuri was standing next to Khaos, while Rhett was standing slightly in front of them to listen to their complains and tried to calm them down.
"The treasury of the pack has depleted," Zuri informed Khaos in low voice. Her father had used a big chunk of it to fund the coup and it would take time to replenish it. "We can buy food from black market, but it will not enough to last until winter is over." She had calculated it. "What are you going to do?"