289 IMPORTANT THING

“Even if you push me down the hole, you will not be able to leave even a scratch on me.”

Norbeat shouldn’t have said something like that because that was a wrong statement to pick a fight with Zuri, especially when she didn’t have a good impression on you. And the next thing she did was; pushing him down the hole.

Or, to be more precise, she kicked him on his butt, since he was already in front of her, standing at the edge of the hole confidently and smugly, as if challenging Zuri to do it.

Of course, Zuri wouldn’t let this chance slip...

There was a loud scream that came from Norbeat when he fell to the bottom of the hole, while Zuri smirked in satisfaction.

“Zuri.”

And Zuri’s smile disappeared when she heard Chaos calling her name, she grimaced and tilted her head to look at him, she was ready with an excuse, but his expression didn’t change. He was not upset that Zuri had kicked Norbeat down the rabbit hole. Instead, she saw him extending his hand to her.

“What is it?” Zuri asked in confusion. She didn’t have any idea what Chaos wanted. Did he want to push her down as well?

“Your onlace,” Chaos said.

.....

Long time ago, when the first time they had journeyed together while she was still little, Chaos gave her a white onlace to protect herself and this was the only thing that stayed with her during her hard times and Zuri kept it like a treasure.

“Here...” Zuri took it out from her pocket and handed it over to Chaos. “What do you want to do with this?” she asked curiously when the onlace glowed brightly in soft white color.

However, the next thing that Chaos did was to throw the onlace into the hole, which left Zuri slightly surprised.

“Why did you do that?” she frowned, as she dropped to her knees and tried to see the bottom of the hole, yet she couldn’t see anything, it was too dark. “You threw away my onlace.”

Yet, not even a moment later, Zuri was pulled back by Chaos, as he made her stand up, while his other hand caught something that darted toward him.

It was a sword. A dark sword, with a dark blade, which glinted under the light of the moon. It was such a beautiful sword with intricate designs on one side of the blade and the hilt as well, in the color of white.

Chaos’ grip on the sword tightened, as it rattled in his hand, as if it was trying to get away from him. Was that even possible?

But then, the sword became calm and Chaos took a closer look at it, before a look of satisfaction could be seen in his expression.

“Is that your sword?” Zuri asked in awe when she stood up and blinked her eyes at the sword. It was beautiful, she had never seen something like this in real life.

“Yes,” Chaos replied, he looked like he was deep in thought, as his eyes fixed on his new found sword.

“My lord! How could you give the onlace to her?!”

A high pitched scream echoed in the middle of this silent night, while Zuri was still fascinated by the sword. She was startled and turned around to see who was talking, only to see a young boy, around the age of five. He looked so pale and skinny, but his golden eyes reminded her of those devils that attacked them before.

“Who are you?” Zuri muttered. She had never seen this boy before and there was no way he lived in this cemetery, but then the way he talked...

On the other hand, the little boy approached them and once he was in front of Zuri, he glared at her with his golden eyes filled with hatred, as he raised his leg, about to kick her.

Yet, before he could do that, he felt a chill down his spine that forced him to turn around. He found Chaos glaring at him.

“My lord...” he weeped dramatically and dropped to his knees. “My previous body was already very weak and didn’t have so much strength left, but this girl kicked me into the hole...” he continued to weep, even though Chaos didn’t listen to him.

The little boy cried and dropped so low until his head touched the ground.

“You are Nutbeat?” Zuri blinked her eyes a few times, she didn’t believe it. She swore that he was an old, weak man, not a little boy like this, but with the way he weeped and addressed Chaos, there was no mistake about this.

“I am Norbeat!” he snapped at Zuri, as he raised his head and then looked around to find Chaos. “My lord? My lord, where are you?”

Zuri was squatting down in front of him, as she nodded in the direction behind him to tell this little boy in which direction Chaos went.

And as soon as he caught a glance of Chaos, Norbeat immediately ran toward him, which reminded Zuri of a little puppy that would run toward its master.

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“What the hell is he?” Zuri was confused.

“Blue,” Chaos called her because she was still stunned in her place, not knowing what actually was happening.

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“Knox, what was that?” July approached Knox when they finally returned to the manor, inside their own room, away from everyone.

Knox ended up killing the alpha of the pack, but July went to him right in time to calm him down before he went on a killing spree.

July also sent three of the shifters to escort them to the next pack nearby, so they could find shelter there, but if they were rejected there as well, there was nothing she could do any more.

“You didn’t need to kill the Alpha.” July stood near the door, while Knox was sitting on the couch. She didn’t feel safe being in the same room as him, but she didn’t want to leave him alone. She needed an explanation for his actions. That was not him.

Not to mention the way Knox touched her while saying; ‘You look beautiful with blood on you’. That made her uncomfortable.

“Knox?” July asked him. She was almost pleading with him now.

“I don’t know, July,” Knox finally admitted after a few moments of thinking.

“What do you mean you don’t know?” July hugged herself. She could understand why he killed the Alpha, even though that was not necessary. But for him to go after his pack and the children and women, despite the fact they had pleaded for his mercy, was another thing entirely.

“I felt this sudden urge inside of me.” Knox stood up and then poured a glass of wine for himself and then a second glass for July.

“What kind of urge?” July gritted her teeth when she walked toward Knox, who extended his hand to give the second glass to her. She needed this to loosen up the tension in her frame.

“The urge to kill someone,” Knox said and the glass slipped from July’s fingers.

The glass fell to the hard ground and then shattered into a thousand pieces, while July took a step back. Fear etched on her face clearly.

Seeing that, Knox did nothing. He didn’t even look surprised to witness how shocked July was.

“Do you remember what you said to me?” Her voice was barely a whisper. On the floor, there was a shattered glass between them, but it seemed it had been forgotten, since neither of them paid attention to it. “Is that what you feel?”

Knox wanted to say something to July, but then he stopped himself when he realized something. “You are afraid of me.” That was a statement.

July gritted her teeth, as she hugged herself tighter. “Yes. You make me feel afraid when you say how you like it when there is blood on me.”

Of course, Knox remembered that, there was no way he forgot about that, but the main question in his head right now was; why? Why did he feel that way?

And for some reason, he felt the need to talk to Chaos. There must be something wrong with him...

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“Easy wolf, easy!” Norbeat fell on his butt when they finally returned to where they left the car and White.

The white wolf immediately ran over to approach Zuri, while wiggling its bushy tail, but once she caught sight of the little boy, she became aggressive. White let out a low and threatening growl at the boy.

“Leash your wolf!” Norbeat shouted at Zuri, but his eyes were fixed on the wolf. He was afraid that he would become its dinner.

“I want to ask you something,” Zuri came closer to Norbeat, with White close behind her, rendering him unable to move an inch.

“What!?” he snapped. At least, he still had this spirit to lash out at her.

“What happened to my onlace?” This was one of the dozen questions that she wanted to ask this creature.

“You don’t know what kind of onlace was that?!” Norbeat shouted in anger, as if Zuri had just insulted him, but then cowered away when the wolf snarled at him.

“You better answer my question.”

“The onlace is the key for Lord Chaos to take back his sword! Without that, he will never be able to retrieve his sword!” He cried out loud at Zuri. “Keep that creature away from me!”

Zuri had never thought Chaos would give her something very important like that.

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