148 THE HEAT
“Will you let him touch you, Zuri? Will you?” Adel grimaced, her eyes filled with concern, she held her hands tightly and looked at her in wary. “Can you imagine that? You will hate yourself for allowing that to happen.”
Zuri remained silent when she heard those words, she didn’t allow her mind to imagine that because she knew that would only make her feel sick in the stomach.
Fuck with heat! She didn’t even want to breathe the same air as Emmet and his father.
“Zuri,” Adel called her desperately because she didn’t give her any response.
“Why are you telling me this?” The question came out very cold and heartless, as if she was an ungrateful child.
“What do you mean why am I telling you this?” Adel looked flustered now. “Because I care for you.”
“No, you don’t.” All these eight years Zuri knew her uncle’s former pack members, they seemed to look at her with disdain in their eyes, because they thought she was one of the reasons why they ended up miserable, even though none of those excuses made any sense.
Indeed, it was easier to have someone to blame on and in this case, since those people couldn’t show their hatred toward Alpha Xerxes, it would be easier for them to vent it out on her.
“Of course I do.” Adel sighed, as if she had aged a few decades. “I don’t show it because you are out of our reach. Alpha Xerxes favored you so much, but you are still one of our pack members, right?”
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Our.
The word hit her with an uneasy feeling. It had been so long since she felt the sense of belonging to something, to someone, as if she was not alone. The feeling was confusing, but it felt warm.
However, Zuri crushed the feeling heartlessly, because it only showed weakness, she didn’t need to feel that now.
“What do you want?” Zuri asked her, and she looked at her with an expression that was devoid of any emotions, as she tried to think about this matter thoroughly. Did she trust her?
“I want to help you, dear.” Adel sighed again, she looked a little bit better when Zuri asked the question that she had been waiting for. “I want to help you, doesn’t that what family do?”
Family?
The last time Zuri remembered, the people that she called family had abandoned her...
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When the sun was about to set, Zuri could feel the strangeness in her body. She felt very hot, though the evening wind that caressed her cheeks was cold enough.
However, there was something burning inside of her and she didn’t know how to extinguish this feeling. No matter how many glasses of cold water that she drank, it proved to be a vain attempt to make her feel any better.
Adel was right, she didn’t know what she would face. She had never experienced such a thing before and the worst news was; this was only the beginning. The feeling would intensify when night came, when the waning crescent moon appeared in the starry night sky.
Zuri was panting now, she felt her skin itch, especially when her skin got rubbed against the fabric of her clothes. It made her very sensitive to every touch.
She was alone in her room and was sitting on the balcony, waiting for the signal from Adel, while the door of this room had been locked. She didn’t want to be with anyone now. Not even allowing Meredith to serve her dinner.
Zuri gritted her teeth and fell to her knees, she shook her head to stay focused. Damn it! The sun just set not too long ago, but she was already an emotional mess. This is crazy. All she could think was Emmet and she was disgusted by herself for having such thoughts.
The beast inside of her clawed at the back of her head, wanting their mate to be there and hold her. Fortunately, Zuri was still holding onto her consciousness and was able to handle this dark desire that she would hate for the rest of her life if she were to give up herself for it.
She groaned and bit her lips when she took off her jacket, and left her with only a tank top which rubbed her skin a little less.
She felt weird whenever she moved and the fabric touched her. She has lived for seventeen years, but never was she aware of that kind of thing, but now, she was feeling extremely sensitive.
Zuri lifted her head and looked into the backyard garden, trying to find Adel, but she was not there yet.
Indeed, they couldn’t stop the heat, but at least, Zuri wouldn’t beg Emmet to touch her like a whore and let him do what he pleased with her without a fight. She felt sick just by imagining that.
Zuri shook her head again when the delicious pain hit her hard. She moaned, as a bead of sweat appeared on her forehead. At this moment, she was not sure if she could handle the peak moment of it. This was not the worst yet...
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Liam looked at the two men that came to him with a stern expression. He knew those men as Emmet’s men, but why did they keep their eyes on him?
“We need to escort you to your room,” one of the men named Karl said sternly.
“Why?” Liam tilted his head. “Am I not allowed to be in the corridor after sunset? I don’t know if there is a new curfew in this pack house.”
Liam knew what night it was for Zuri and after a few debates with himself, he decided to see her condition, though it was only from afar. He didn’t want to make things more difficult for her.
“You need to go to your room.” Swiftly, Karl clasped something on Liam’s wrist.
“What?” Liam looked down and found the bracelet. The same bracelet Zuri was forced to wear.
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