Untamed: The Alpha

274 THE DEAL WITH THE DEVIL (2)

“Don’t worry, I will not try anything funny before that happens, but I will assure you that she will become the most powerful shifter ever, whilst your pack, an unparalleled domain.” Aaron’s golden eyes glinted under the light. They exuded the sweetest promises that were hard to resist and Liam was not resolute enough to be wise and say ‘no’ to what the devil had offered to him. “What more do you need? Isn’t that what you want? To make this pack to be the most powerful in this whole realm?”

Liam held his daughter closer to him, while staring at Aaron in disbelief. He didn’t want to agree with him, but he knew he was left with no other choice. His greediness would become the death of him one day...

And the worst part of this was that Aaron could see it clearly in his eyes. He knew what a person’s deepest and darkest desires were and he offered exactly what they wanted, not what they needed, to benefit himself.

Therefore, when Liam looked at his sleeping baby once again, the devil knew that his guard against him had crumbled and it was a beautiful sight in Aaron’s eyes... desperation and helplessness...

Aaron then walked toward Liam and then stood right in front of the Alpha. At this point, Liam felt alarmed, he wanted to take a step back, but he would never do that, as it showed his fear, something that was against his nature, thus he chose to confront him instead.

“What will you do to help this pack emerge as the most powerful pack in this realm?” Liam needed to know more about this part of the deal.

This whole situation felt so surreal, he thought he was in a dream, just like how he met Aaron for the first time. It was a dream.

However, with the devil, no matter what, whether it was a dream or real, a deal was a deal. He would never be able to escape from this once they sealed a deal.

Aaron could see the greediness in Liam’s eyes, though it was mixed with his concern and caution, yet it was there and that was all the devil needed to get Liam to collude with him.

.....

“The most powerful pack needs a powerful alpha, so...” Aaron lamented. “You can think for yourself, what does a powerful alpha look like...”

Aaron then took a step closer toward Liam again and now they were facing each other with only the sleeping baby serving as the distance between them.

“You can start imagining how it feels to be able to grow back your limbs even though your enemy tore them apart, or how you will no longer need to be concerned about the witch’s magic, neither will you need to worry about silver...” Aaron snickered. “You will be invincible and your warriors will be empowered with almost the same abilities as you. Can you imagine what you can do with an army that would bow before no one?”

Liam gulped down, he felt his throat suddenly become dry, just the thought of that was so tempting.

“You can bring your army to march to Lucinda city and kill those people, who had killed the children in your pack. Kill their children right before their eyes, so they will understand the true meaning of fear and loss.” Aaron wouldn’t stop with his suggestions, giving Liam all the horrendous ideas that the alpha would love to hear.

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Zuri stared at Chaos’ sleeping face. He looked less hostile and evil when he shut his eyes close like this. He looked like an innocent child. No one would have thought that he was more than capable of tearing someone’s body apart without even batting an eye.

All of those dreadful sights that she had witnessed, seemed so surreal...

However, from the corner of her eyes, Zuri caught a slight movement and this made her turn her head quickly to check what that was about.

As it turned out, it was Hades. It had been a while since the last time Zuri saw him, since he didn’t show up often when she was with Chaos, but then it could be said there was no time that she actually didn’t spend with him.

Zuri was about to open her mouth to ask what the god of the underworld was doing here, but Hades simply put his finger in front of his lips and winked at her, indicating for her to not say anything and wake Chaos up.

Hades then pointed his finger to the door and then walked toward it. He wanted Zuri to follow him, but she was hesitant to do so, because she was not sure it was safe for her to follow him.

Yet, when Hades was at the door, he turned around and looked at Zuri, he rolled his eyes mockingly, as if saying; are you afraid?

Hades then turned around and disappeared, he didn’t need to open the door at all. He just disappeared and it no longer came as a surprise for Zuri.

For a moment, Zuri was uncertain whether she needed to follow him or not, but then, she got off the bed slowly, so she wouldn’t wake Chaos up.

It was White, the wolf, that perked up her ears and then opened her eyes. She looked at Zuri, who was walking across this hotel room to reach the door.

Zuri immediately put her finger in front of her lips, afraid she would start howling, and gestured for her to go back to sleep, yet the white wolf only lowered her head, while following Zuri’s movement with her eyes.

Zuri opened the door very carefully, but her eyes were on Chaos, she wanted to make sure that he was still fast asleep.

She paused for a moment before she walked out of the room, before Zuri shut the door, she made sure that Chaos had not yet moved an inch from his position and was indeed clueless about what was happening, while the wolf continued staring at her in confusion.

Zuri then closed the door behind her back and then looked at the long corridor, where she saw Hades disappearing into the right wing. She frowned and scoffed. This devil truly knew how to annoy her.

It was not obligatory for Zuri to follow him, but she just wanted to see what Hades wanted to say, since it was rare for him to appear and ask her to meet him.

Therefore, Zuri followed Hades and then both of them ended up on a huge balcony on the same floor, where Zuri and Chaos’ room was.

“What do you want?” Zuri asked Hades, cutting straight to the business. She looked at the devil, but there was no warmth in her hazel’s eyes.

“Don’t you miss me? I have disappeared from your life for almost a year. There is no kiss or hug for me?” Hades looked sad, but it was an exaggerated reaction from him, and made Zuri feel she was wasting her time. “Where are you going?” Hades’ expression dropped when he saw Zuri walk away from him.

“If you keep wasting my time, I will go.” Zuri didn’t want to leave Chaos alone, she was not sure if he was stable enough, knowing the color of his eyes were not normal.

“Don’t you want to know why I came looking for you? Geez, you became even worse than Chaos. You must have some personality disorder.” And Hades stopped commenting on Zuri’s personality when she glared viciously at him.

“Tell me what you want now, or don’t bother me at all,” Zuri said sternly.

“Tsk,” Hades clicked his tongue, but he knew that Zuri was serious about this. She didn’t want to spend more time away from Chaos, as she was worried about leaving him on his own. “I can see Chaos’ condition is worsening.”

This sentence managed to catch Zuri’s attention, so she turned her body around and faced Hades again, waiting for him to continue with his words.

“I think Chaos already realized his condition by now.”

“He already realized it,” Zuri agreed with Hades, Chaos had admitted it to her, about him losing himself and the part where he would forget about her... she was still in denial about the last part.

Hades raised his brows. “Well, if that’s the case, I just want to tell you that is not the worst part of this whole situation.”

Zuri frowned. She didn’t think there was anything more that could be worse than this, but of course, there would always be something worse than the other. “What do you mean?”

“I just want to tell you that Aaron is out there. He is obsessed over ruining this realm. He wants Chaos to breakloose.” Hades then looked at Zuri. “I think he has a weird obsession toward you as well, since Chaos put his attention on you.”

“Who is Aaron?”

“The bad devil.”

Zuri scoffed. “You make it sound like you are the good guy here.”

Hades laughed at that and shook his head. “Of course not. I just want to tell you so this will be fair for you.”

It felt weird for Zuri to hear that. “Where do you stand in this whole situation?”

“I stand on the ‘side’, I am just a spectator.” Hades then stretched out his hand to touch Zuri, but she flinched and took a step back. “Poor you, little girl...” he murmured.

However, before Zuri could ask why he said that, all of a sudden Chaos appeared between them and there were bright flames that licked Hades’ whole body, burning him.

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