Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee

215 Wrongly Accused

“No! We saw him on tape. He was controlling her,” I retorted, trying to correct Oswin.

“I

saw him in person, too. He was telling her things,” Lazlo too joined me to ensure wasn‘t lying or having

a misconception.

“Guys! That‘s not true. Thiago had been trying to disconnect her from the monster.” Oswin slapped his f

orehead. But it wasn‘t that simple for us. We couldn‘t just slap our forehead and say, oh, my bad!

“Then why didn‘t he take us on board?” I said, looking through Thiago‘s eyes.

“Because he was afraid that the monster was living in our heads. Okay! How about | explain it from the

beginning?” Oswin waved his hand at us to calm us down. But what he was saying was really making

me weak in my knees.

I wouldn‘t be unhappy if that were the case, but what about our relationship? What about the pain I am

seeing in Thiago‘s eyes? Or maybe Oswin is getting fooled?

“So, it

all started when Thiago and I saw Jessica wandering on the road and towards the hills back when we

were on the island. We left that drive–in cinema area to follow her. It turned out the monster who

had marked her was trying to control her and make her hurt herself. That‘s when Thiago and I came up

with this plan. Thiago stopped her from ending her life. He

told her he was the monster and because she had never seen a monster when he showed her his Lyca

n, she believed him. His mission was to make her disconnect the mind link with the monster. I was shoc

ked too when I – saw his wolf. I never knew, and I would never have guessed that much empathy

could never come from a monster. When Jessica was severing the mind link with the actual monster, s

he told

Thiago that the monster had his eyes on Enya. And that he is already residing in her mind. Obviously, s

he told Thiago all that, as if she was just gossiping with the monster about what he had

told her about his plans. But we figured the monster was

going to mark Enya soon. It devastated Thiago. He couldn‘t tell you anything because what if the

monster hears what we are doing? He had to sneakily

speak to Jessica and convince her that he was the monster who had marked her.” Oswin was explainin

g everything while making my head go in circles.

“Then why did he tell you? Why didn‘t he think of severing that mind link between the monster and me li

ke he did to Jessica?” | raised a question.

“When he stopped Jessica from ending her life, we reckoned it was the monster‘s

doing. I already had this fluid with me. When I heard about the cries in the field, I had already

managed to get my hands on a little

bit of that liquid. That night, we had to use it on me and Jessica to stop the mind link from building and

keep the monster out of our minds. We didn‘t have any left, and the island was

running short on it. We had

to come here and find it first before we talked to you guys. He was injecting it into me

to see if we made it right. That‘s all. I was right there in hiding whenever Thiago spoke to her. He

did it all for you, Enya! He exposed his Lycan to her and me just so that he could save you from getting

marked by that monster. Do you know how much he had put himself on the wrong side of that monster

?” Oswin‘ s words had shaken

the world from under my feet. I was left with no excuses, nothing to yell at Thiago.

“Why didn‘t he tell me?” Lazlo, who was still grasping onto reality, asked.

“Because you dismissed

him. He tried to speak to you, but you were not ready to listen to him. We fathomed

maybe that monster is already hiding in your mind.” Oswin shrugged his shoulders, “By the way, he can

only stay in

your mind, but he can not control you until he marks you,” he added, with a sigh of relief heaving acros

s his lips.

“I am so sorry,” I was shaking in

my skin, watching Thiago standing in the corner with his body showing no movement.

“You see, we have seen enough proof to think you are the monster,” Lazlo explained his actions.

“No! I heard you. You said it is more convincing because I am a Lycan and Lycans are monsters.” That

shaky voice of Thiago broke my heart.

“Enya! I knew I was a monster, but you two–— you two constantly told

me I was not. And then I started to believe it. I was happy that I wasn‘t a

monster, but it was all sweet talk. You never meant it.” a tear rolled down his eye as he stared

at us, “None of you came to me to confront me. What were you guys waiting for? Are

you planning to find a way to kill me? To kill the big bad wolf?” His

lips quivered as he stared between us.

“No! We were going to–” Lazlo paused. We had run out of excuses.

“We were scared that you were the monster and if we confronted you without a plan, you

would hurt Jessica and the others too,” Lazlo explained. I instantly bobbed

my head, wanting to get close to Thiago, who was now keeping a safe distance from me.

“But you confronted me now. So, what is the plan? Is there a hunter waiting for me in the bathroom, hidi

ng? Waiting for me to admit I am a monster so that he

can come out and stab me in the chest?” he stepped back from us, his eyes forming tears nonstop

“Oh, God!” Oswin sighed, holding his face in his hands.

“You confronted me because you thought I was

going to hurt Oswin. But you didn‘t when you thought I was hurting our relationship. You! You didn‘t eve

n let me speak to you. Fine, you should have not shared it with me, but you didn‘t even let me share an

ything from my side either,” Thiago raised his hands and rested them behind his head as he shivered vi

sibly.

“Tell me one thing,” he finally turned

to us again. My heart was pounding in my chest and my eyes were shedding tears.

“Did you think about stabbing me with a silver dagger?” He asked, and my mouth hung open. “You did,

didn‘t you?” He smiled to himself like a fool. “You wanted to get rid of me, didn‘t you?” I had no answer t

o his questions.

Lazlo and I acted very poorly in this

scenario. We did confront him without a plan, so why didn‘t we do it before?

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