Untamed: The Alpha

256 THEY WERE UNDER ATTACK

This was the first time for Zuri to see a centaur in real life. They looked bigger and gruesome than how humans depicted them in pictures of a textbook.

Their horse body looked so strong and they stood proudly, but from the waist up, they had the body of a human. While the men would have short hair with the same color as their horse body, the women would have longer hair, which covered their front.

They looked aloof to their surroundings. The way they looked at things was intriguing, as if they had a thousand different thoughts at the same time. They seemed the type of creature that would think too deeply about something trivial and seemed like they would have a thousand different philosophies for everything.

“What do you want here, Chaos?” One of them stepped forward and then asked Chaos with his low and deep voice. He was very tall, even taller than Chaos, with his unique body.

Chaos pushed Zuri forward slightly, to expose her to these centaurs. “Tell me what you see about her.” His voice was so deep, which reminded Zuri of the way Knox talked to his people. He looked so formal and distant. “Tell me everything,” he demanded.

The centaur tilted his head, as if he didn’t understand what Chaos was talking about, and didn’t even spare a single glance at Zuri. He didn’t take Chaos seriously.

“No,” he said in a rough voice. His arms crossed in front of his chest, as he shook his head to emphasize his answer. “Leave from our forest.”

Zuri could feel Chaos’ chest press against her back, though he exposed her to these mythical creatures, he was on his guard if they were trying to do something funny to her.

“What forest?” Chaos said, his voice was so cold and distant. His long, black hair fluttered in the wind, while his naked chest was so close to Zuri, until she could feel the heat from his body, which was great to keep her warm.

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This forest was slightly cold for her, but that did not last long when she felt the air trickling around her. The atmosphere crackled and all of a sudden everything turned so bright, as heat engulfed them.

The centaur’s eyes opened wide in horror as a few shrieks erupted from the other centaurs before a short shrill scream cracked the serenity of the night. It made Zuri turn around to see what was happening. And following his line of sight, she found out one of the centaurs was being burned alive.

“Chaos.” Zuri snapped her head to Chaos who was staring right at the burning centaur that had fallen to the ground, no longer moving or screaming. It was a quick death.

At this point, Zuri was not sure what she had to think anymore because she would have never thought Chaos would go so far as to kill one of the creatures.

How badly he wanted this, until the rejection of the centaur resulted in him taking an innocent life? Was that worth it? Were they bad creatures?

“Will you see her now?” Chaos asked the leader of the centaurus in front of him again. He looked calm and collected, but one must know that the calmer he looked, the more dangerous he was.

His eyes were the color of red, the same color when he burned the whole city and created a true chaos in the capital city of Artzees country, Fokosa city, which now was occupied by various supernatural creatures, who wanted to establish their territories on that ground.

If this centaur kept rejecting Chaos’ demand, Zuri was sure he would burn them all alive. The poor centaur earlier was only an example of what he could do to them without even lifting a finger.

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Emily was dressed nicely in her brown dress, which was almost the same color as her eyes. She tied her hair into a bun and then put on the best shoes that she had.

Though the dress and the shoes or everything in her possession were second hand things, she still managed to look more than decent at this sacred ceremony. Her beauty grew as she aged. Within a few years, she would be a beautiful teenager and then a young woman.

“What do you think about this dress?” Emily asked Eros, who was waiting for her out of the bedroom, with his back facing her.

Eros turned around and found Emily standing not too far from him and then smiled softly. “You look gorgeous,” he said.

But that would always be his answer since the first time Emily asked him about her appearance, so it didn’t sound special to her.

“I know you will say that,” she mumbled.

Eros walked toward her and then took her hand in his. “Let’s go.”

They were running late, but Eros didn’t seem to care about that. They had never been fit in this pack and they were having a hard time accepting them. It caused Eros to stop trying to please them so they could like him and Emily a long time ago.

He no longer cared about them. They could hate him for all they wanted and he would remain the same like this. They were not worth any effort from him at this point.

Eros took Emily to the dining hall, because they would eat dinner together before the ceremony occurred in the middle of the night, by the river, the same place where Emmet marked Zuri years ago.

As the two of them walked in the corridor, there were a few shifters, who threw the two of them a strange look, as if they didn’t really like what they were seeing.

Human and lycan, two different entities that they weren’t really fond of.

However, they couldn’t show their hostility openly to Emily in front of Eros, because the aura that emanated from him was quite scary. It felt like they were facing an alpha, not a beta, a very young but strong one on top of that.

Meanwhile, Emily walked very close to Eros, clinging to his arm, because she was afraid of them. They had never treated her well. Not now, not in the past.

And just like what Eros had predicted, once they entered the dining hall, all pairs of eyes were staring at the two of them. They were filled with malice and hatred. Almost all of them showed hostility toward Eros and Emily.

Damon was the best beta in their hearts and had been around for a long time, thus they didn’t take his death very well and were in so much grief, which caused them to feel a bitter taste in their mouths and a sore feeling in their hearts at the sight of the killer of their friend.

Eros ignored all of that and pulled Emily to sit next to him. He even tapped the man on the shoulder to get up.

“She is not welcome here,” the man growled at Eros, while Emily was trying to say to him that it was all right for her to sit anywhere.

Yet, Eros didn’t give in. He threw a glare at the Alpha instead. “This is how your pack members treat their superior?”

“You are not my superior!” The man got up from his seat, ready to fight him, while Eros swiftly pulled Emily from harm’s way, hiding her behind his back, as he kept staring at the alpha.

“Sit down, Romeo,” Alpha Liam commanded sternly. He used his alpha voice to make the man calm down a little bit. “You heard what the beta said.”

“He is not yet a beta! The ceremony has not happened yet!” the man named Romeo protested. He didn’t want to let this brat get his way.

However, the alpha decided otherwise. “He was the beta the moment he killed Damon. Not respecting him means you don’t respect the rules either.”

Romeo became very silent, but his veins popped out of his head. It didn’t take a long time for him to realize that he was fighting a losing battle, since the alpha would let Eros get whatever he wanted.

In the end he moved away from his seat, but before that, he threw Emily a nasty remark, while whispering into her ear.

Romeo leaned over to her very fast. “You will be a delicate young woman in a couple of years and...”

However, before Romeo could finish his words, Eros had his fingers clamped around his throat, as his claws emerged out, pierced through his skin and when he yanked his hand away, he ripped a good chunk of his flesh, leaving him bleeding profusely, as he dropped to the floor, with his hand on his throat, trying his best to cover the big hole there.

Fear and horror crept across the entire dining table, as all the people immediately stood up from their seats and approached Romeo, who was gagging on his own blood right now.

“Call the healer!”

“Where is Ariana?!”

“Call Ariana over, quick!”

It was a chaotic situation, as no one cared to eat anymore, since Romeo’s blood had spluttered all over the dishes.

While some men tried to help Romeo, a bunch of men tried to block Eros, just in case, he would be crazy enough to finish him off right there and then.

Yet, Eros didn’t have any desire to do so, so he stepped back, with Emily standing very close to him.

Amidst this commotion, from outside of the pack house they could hear a bell ring three times and all of them became so tense.

They were under attack.

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