180 UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER
July could feel the rush of adrenaline to her head when she watched her father and her twin sister enter the tent.
Most of the guards knew who she was, thus she was the only person who was not being tied down like the other five people and one shifter there.
Someone had given Zuri a white blanket to cover herself and a bracelet to prevent her from shifting into her beast again, but the girl seemed too distracted to grasp their situation. She had been like this since the beginning.
“I am surprised to see you here, July,” Archie said, the corners of his lips tugged upward, but the look in his eyes was completely murderous.
He couldn’t imagine his rebellious daughter was trying to destroy the very facility that he had built for years and when they were about to get a breakthrough she just had to storm here and explode it all, making him start to build it again from scratch? When they were only a step away from catching that legendary creature, Chaos.
“I missed you dad,” July said in a mocking tone. Her gaze was hard and she looked her father dead in his eyes. If one could say, she got this attitude from her father, but unfortunately they were standing on different sides.
“I doubt that. I thought you would meet me at the family dinner, instead of trying to ruin my job, honey,” Archie clicked his tongue.
“You know that I don’t always follow the rules.”
Archie narrowed his eyes. It was a loss for him to have July have a different idea from him about this whole non- human thing, and for her to have a relationship with one of the McKeltars.
.....
He let her do whatever she wanted because he hoped he could get something from her, since she was important to the McKeltars.
But, he would have never thought to get something like this from his daughter. He would have killed her by now if she had managed to pull her little stunt back there. He swore he would not hesitate to strangle the last breath out of her.
“You are not that smart to execute this plan, July, you should realize it by now.” Archie was only bluffing. She would have succeeded by now if it was not because of the warning from the alpha of the Shadow Moon pack.
“Next time I will do it better, dad, you don’t need to worry about it.”
“Unfortunately, there is no next time, honey. You will go home, there are a lot of things that you need to learn from the very beginning. Jasmine will help you with that, you don’t need to worry.”
It sounded sweet for Archie to say that with endearment when he called her name, but July knew better there was nothing sweet from that hidden threat. She could be one of his experiments if he was crazy enough to hand her to Jasmine.
July knew the degree of the hatred that her twin has for her, even now, it was radiating from her body when she was standing not too far from her.
“What are you going to do with them, then?” July tried to buy them time, until they could figure out how to get away from this place, but all she could see was her, who had failed them all.
She should have made more preparations than this and didn’t take it easily because she had all the information that she needed.
“Your friends can go home.” Archie shrugged his shoulders.
July scoffed at those words, she knew her father better to know which home he would send them.
“But, that white wolf will come with me, I need her,” he said. “There is someone that wants to see you.”
And before July could react to that arrangement, she could hear Zuri growling loudly, as her eyes fixed on the door of the tent.
Someone entered and Zuri snarled viciously at him.
Zuri had smelled his scent since the middle of the conversation, but she thought it was impossible that it was him. What the hell was he doing here anyway?
Until Liam walked into the tent and Zuri watched him smile at her. “Liam,” Zuri growled when she saw that man. He looked so different from the last time they met.
“Zuri, nice to meet you again here,” Liam said in a deep voice.
He didn’t look like the cowardly second son of the Alpha Xerxes, someone who was taken so easily and didn’t count for anything. He looked like... an alpha.
The aura that radiated from him and the way he carried himself with pride, he was definitely an alpha now.
This was one thing for shifters, as they could recognize the other shifters’s rank easily, especially when you were an alpha. There was no mistake in that.
But, how could that happen?
Zuri was completely caught off guard to see Liam here.
“Is that you?” Zuri narrowed her eyes. She had been in the Shadow Moon pack for so long, until she recognized every trick that they pulled off. “You are the one who told them we are here?” But how? That was the question in Zuri’s mind that she couldn’t answer.
How did he manage to do that?
“You are indeed a good asset for our pack, but unfortunately, you are more useful when you are out of the pack.” Liam folded his arms in front of his chest, his expression was serene. He was calcultive and he had thought of this plan for so long.
He had planned all of this since the very beginning.
And now Zuri wondered, whether her escaping was a part of his plan, was that display of kindness only a stage that he pulled off?
“What do you want from me?” Zuri hissed viciously at him. She should know no one was sane in that family. She felt sick that she fell for his fake kindness and there was a time when she thought of him as a brother.
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