182 AN IMPENDING DOOM

Zuri couldn’t comprehend how someone like Liam, who looked nice and all, someone that would always help her in any way possible, though cowardly since he rarely stood up for himself and let people judge him as a useless son, turned out to be a manipulative asshole!?

That night... Was it all his plan? How could that happen?

Zuri knew how manipulative Alpha Xerxes was, and since Emmet and Liam didn’t inherit such traits, she thought none of the two would be worse than the Alpha, but then here Liam was, showing her his true colors and his father looked normal compared to him.

How long had he been brewing such a plan? He literally had shown people a character and behavior that would make people see him as a gullible person. Something must be wrong in his head if he could keep his pretense for so long... When did it even start?

A lot of questions and possibilities drilled in Zuri’s mind.

“FUCK YOU!” Zuri screamed at the top of her lungs and the air shifted around her. The air crackled and there was a loud cracking sound from the frozen lake, as if the ice had just broken.

Was that an explosive that July and the others had placed? But they didn’t put any detonators on the frozen lake, moreover, the members of The Hound must have taken care of them by now, right?

Hearing that loud sound, all of them were quite surprised.

Liam squinted his eyes, as his mind and eyes turned sharp when he looked into the distance. He was silent for a while, before he issued an order rapidly.

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“Take her and follow me!” he ordered Damon and then shouted at the people near him. “Get me Archie Williams! Everyone, move to the frozen lake, now!”

Damon easily slung Zuri over his shoulder, as he ran toward the frozen lake, following Liam. He didn’t know what this young brat had planned, but as far as he could see, this man was not so bad. He knew what he had to do, but more importantly, he was as cunning as his father. He had so much up his sleeves.

“Arrghh!” Damon threw Zuri to the ground hard, until they could hear the sound of her bones being broken.

“What are you doing!?” Liam snapped at him, as he stopped running and watched Zuri writhe on the ground. She was wearing the bracelet that disturbed her beast’s blood, rendering her healing ability unable to work if she got hurt.

“She hit me!” Damon groaned, he threw a murderous glare at Zuri.

“Pick her up again, I don’t want any delay!” Liam roared in annoyance, as he ran again toward the frozen lake, with all the people there, as the cracking sounds only got louder and it spread panic to all of them, since they didn’t know what kind of power that they had to deal with.

“Hit me one more time, I will drown you in the frozen lake!” Damon threatened her, while taking Zuri back to his shoulder. “I will break your arms if I have to!”

Zuri felt her body was in so much pain, she was aware that she had broken a few bones and every brusque movement from Damon rattled her body and only added to her agony. She bit her bottom lip, she was breathless as her blood rushed to her head in this position.

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“Put her down!” Liam ordered Damon. He looked at the cracking ice on the surface of the frozen lake, as if there was a strong force beneath it. “It is here,” he muttered.

Beside Liam, Archie was standing stiffly. “Is he coming now?”

“Yes,” Liam said gloomily. “Let’s hope that the machine you are proud of is really going to work to control this creature.”

“It will,” he said sternly. “It must.”

However, seeing what was happening before their eyes, of course, it was hard to not have any second thoughts, when doubt crept in their strong belief whether their technology was on par or not with this unknown force.

To their horror, the noise was getting even louder and the surface of the lake was no longer covered with ice, as it started to crack and melte.

“The water turned warm!” One of the men shouted to inform the others.

Yes, they could feel it, even the air was getting warm now, and one by one, they took off their jackets and only wore their shirts.

“Impossible,” Archie watched in disbelief at what was unfolding before their eyes. The water in the lake was now boiling.

“The water is getting hot! It is forty degrees celsius!” one of them, who was near the lake, informed them.

Hearing that, Liam clicked his tongue. “This won’t do,” he said. “We must retreat.”

“No! It will do!” Archie insisted. He glared at Liam next to him.

“Whatever you have right now, it can’t be compared to this power,” Liam hissed at him and he could see the greediness in Archie’s eyes. In an instant, he knew that his ego was driving him instead of his logic, and that was a bad sign for a leader.

Liam had seen the same look in his father’s eyes and it was the beginning of his doom, so would be Arhcie. And, Liam didn’t come to follow him to his predestination.

“I will retreat,” Liam announced.

When you are at war, you should know when to strike, but it is no less important to know when to retreat.

“You are a coward,” Archie said, disgusted.

“You can retreat now and attack later, but if you die, you will not have any more chances.” Liam reciprocated his murderous glare. “Damon, take her with us. We are leaving,” he ordered his beta without breaking eye contact.

“No, she stays with me.” Archie glanced at his man, signaling them to stop these five shifters from escaping.

However, the dispute between them was no longer necessary when the real horror was about to happen.

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