Chapter 127: YOU CARE ABOUT HIM, RIGHT?
Rose arrived at night before the attack to the River Creek pack, Nycta waited for her and she hugged her sister. She apologized for the way she behaved the other day.
"I think this pregnancy make me a little bit sensitive," Nycta said, as she walked beside her sister. Rose was as graceful as ever, even though she had just gone through a long journey.
"You are the queen, you shouldn't have asked for forgiveness from me. I can understand." Rose smiled with delight to her sister, as if everything had been forgotten and forgiven.
"You will like alpha Logan, I have met with him for a few times and as far as I could tell, he was a great person."
Rose kept her smile and listened to her sister praising alpha Logan here and there, as if it could make her felt better to have a former beta as her mate.
And once they arrived at Rose's bedroom, this was the same bedroom that she used when she was here the last time, Nycta wished her a good night sleep.
"I will see you in the morning," Nycta said, kissing her sister's cheek and then walked away.
Meanwhile, Rose's smile faded away the moment Nycta was out of her sight. Her eyes turned slightly darker. She hated with passion every time Nycta opened her mouth to talk about Logan, she felt as if she was being mocked.
However, less than five minutes later, someone knocked on her door and a warrior stood there, he informed her that the king wanted to see her.
"The king?" Rose raised her brows, a small tugged on the corner of her lips. "May I know why?"
Obviously, Nycta didn't know about this, or else, Nycta would be the one, who took her to meet with the king.
"I don't know the detail, but princess Rose is expected in the king's study room."
"I will be there."
Rose closed the door and checked herself on the mirror first, making sure she looked presentable before she walked out of the room and followed the warrior.
She could guess why the king needed her, especially only a day before the attack to the River Creek pack.
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Zuri woke up early this morning and found Khaos was not by her side. It was not something unusual, he must have gone somewhere.
However, she would take extra time to cuddle his pillow and breathe deeply in his scent, only then she woke up and cleaned herself before she was ready for the day.
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Today was a big day, where her plan was set in motion and she was nervous to see how it would play out. She hoped, everything would go accordingly, but before she could leave the room, instead of Gayle, she saw it was her brother, who was standing in front of her door.
"Rhett?" Zuri was surprised to see him. It had been a while, since she saw him, because she was kind of avoiding him.
After she learned what he had done to her, she didn't know how to feel about this brother of hers. She still liked him, she still thought of him as her brother, but he was not her favorite person anymore. He harmed and betrayed her, no matter what his reason.
"Can we talk for a while, Zuri?" Rhett's voice was as soft as she remembered it, he used to bring comfort to her.
"What do you want to talk about?"
"About the beauty blood." He knew that Zuri already learned about it, thus there was nothing to hide anymore. He was going to be blunt with her. "I am sure, you already knew what is
that."
The next part was something that Rhett didn't expect, because Zuri slapped him so hard, he stumbled a few steps back and looked at his sister with wide eyes.
"You used me. I thought you care about me." The betrayal stung.
'Now you know how it felt to be betrayed, right? It's karma, Zuri. Your karma for betraying me.'
Xaden appeared out of thin air, it had been a while since Zuri saw him and the sight of him only fueled her anger even more.
'Why you look like that, my dear mate? Karma bites your ass? I like biting your ass and you know that.'
His laughter filled the empty hallway and Zuri was seeing red with the lewd comment he gave to her. She just felt better recently, she thought she would get better, but this man appeared before her eyes again and ruined it. Everything seemed to go back to that dark place.
"Shut up! Shut up!" Zuri faced Xaden, but he only laughed even more, mocking her with a few lewd comments about her body.
Meanwhile, Rhett immediately understood what was going on when Zuri screamed at empty spot. He was not angry with the slap, he deserved it. But, right now he needed to get Zuri back so they could talk properly about the beauty blood.
From what Elijah told him, Khaos was reluctant to continue with the curses and tried to buy time. The attachment must have gotten to him and because Khaos didn't have his own destined mate, this attachment to the Shell must be close to one.
He was being protective of Zuri without him realizing it and it could setback their plan.
Zuri was not Khaos's destined mate and his attachment to her wouldn't do any good for the plan, since the Shell was bound to be hurt in the end and Khaos's overprotectiveness that started to show wouldn't help with the situation.
"Zuri, look at me." Rhett approached her carefully, she looked like she was going to lose it and he knew she was capable of fighting him. "That's not real. Whatever you are seeing is not
real."
Zuri turned her head and now her attention was on Rhett.
"Do you want to get rid of the hallucination? Do you want to know how to help alpha Khaos?
You care about him, right?"