196 WHY SHOULD I FORGIVE YOU?

Zuri stood between Chaos and Nikolai, putting herself at risk if Chaos decided to go berserk and claim Nikolai’s soul.

She had witnessed it first hand how Chaos claimed back his shattered soul back then and she didn’t want to watch him do it to Nikolai.

For now, they were standing in the parking lot, beside the building, as they went out of the heavy music and crazy dancing from the side door.

“Who is he?” Nikolai asked in a low voice. He thought there would be a warm greeting, and they would reminisce memories from the past. There were a lot of things to talk about, but this tense and strained atmosphere was the last thing that he had expected.

“Go back home, Nikolai,” Zuri said sternly. Her eyes were on Chaos’ dark ones. Her body bent forward slightly, as if she was ‘at the ready’ for any confrontation.

Chaos couldn’t see it, but he could sense her anger and her frustration. Her will to fight him if he dared to lay a finger on this young man.

Zuri knew that there was no chance for her to be able to overpower Chaos, but she stood her ground anyway, shoving Nikolai behind her back, while the young man looked at both of them with confusion.

“Why?” Nikolai leaned forward, whispered to Zuri’s ear, but his warm breath that brushed against her neck only made the girl growl maliciously. “What happened?” He was in the dark, not knowing about what he got himself into.

However, it didn’t matter, because in the next second, his back had been slammed to the wall behind him, as he lost his footing when the dark eyed man lifted him from the ground, wrapping his fingers around his neck.

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Chaos had already strangled Nikolai within a second.

“Stop it, Chaos,” Zuri said through her gritted teeth, her hazel eyes stared at Nikolai and Chaos back and forth.

Chaos intentionally didn’t kill Nikolai right away. He put Nikolai in his preferable position, far from her, and then looked at Zuri with his dark eyes. “Is he important to you?”

The question came out very rigid, as if he just asked about something that pained him, as if he was suppressing his emotions right now.

Zuri seethed, she snarled at him when she spoke. “I will never forgive you if you kill him.” Her voice was filled with malice.

Nikolai gasped for air, he was trying so hard to free himself from his clutches, but this man didn’t budge at all. He didn’t even flinch when Nikolai stabbed his nails into his flesh.

Chaos had been stabbed by something worse after all.

“Why do you think I need your forgiveness?” Finally Chaos spoke, his expression was devoid of any emotions and seeing that sent Nikolai’s mind into a disarray

The only thing that he could think of right now was his little sister. Who would Vanesha live with if he died? He didn’t think he would survive this, though Zuri was trying to go against this man’s intentions to kill him.

Just who the hell is he?!

He was not a shifter, since Nikolai never heard of a shifter that could move in the blink of an eye like he did, neither could a vampire.

“You need me to find all the shattered souls.” Zuri hated it when she was put in this situation, when she was powerless and was forced to do something that she didn’t want to.

Eight years of living under Alpha Xerxes’ tyranny was enough for her to taste how it felt like when you were overpowered.

“I found one right here.” Chaos tightened his grip around Nikolai’s neck, more pressure and he would die with a broken neck.

“Let him go, Chaos.” The more Chaos was trying to strangle Nikolai, as he tightened his grip on his neck, the darker Zuri’s voice became. “I know you need me.”

However, Chaos simply didn’t listen to her, he pressed Nikolai’s neck harder and his limbs dropped, he stayed still, no longer putting up any fight against Chaos, while there was no change in his expression.

“FUCK YOU, CHAOS!” Zuri roared at him. Her anger got the better of her. She swore that she wouldn’t care even when someone was dying in front of her. People died every day, there was nothing you could do about it.

Zuri had promised that she wouldn’t let her emotions control her.

However, to see someone you were familiar with die because of you, right before your eyes, was a completely different thing. Her heart was not as callous as she thought, it still bled and twisted in pain when she was about to lose someone close to her.

Probably the life that she was living was still not enough for her to learn that being able to numb your feelings was a blessing.

Before her eyes, Zuri watched how Chaos threw Nikolai across the parking lot, as his body skidded on the asphalt, while he glared at her.

“I do not appreciate your choice of words, Blue.” Just like how he did before, in the blink of an eye, Chaos was already standing in front of Blue, which made her take a step back because of the proximity between them.

“I am not Blue, my name is Zuri.” Zuri emphasized every word that she said, she met his sightless eyes, but oddly enough, she could see his emotions. Was that anger? Confusion? There was no way she was able to know. It could be her hallucination as well. “I am not the child that you know. I am stronger than that poor little girl that you pitied.”

It didn’t sound like she was trying to provoke Chaos, but it indeed sounded like an affirmation for herself.

However, Chaos smirked to sense her emotions. “You are still that pitiful little girl I know.”

Zuri had been warned by Hades about how Chaos’ personality could be not the same as she remembered and now she could see it herself.

“You are and you will always be like that.”

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