305 MEMORY OF THE PAST (2)

Jasmine had thought about this for a long time. She had tried to think of the best way possible to engage Darius in a conversation, but the problem with her was; she was not someone that would engage in small talk. She was never good with that and she didn’t think she would ever master that.

Therefore, based on her personality, there would only be one way possible for her, which was; to talk directly to Darius.

In any way possible, it was much better for her to be in her comfort zone when she tried to engage in this kind of topic, instead of distressing herself, as she danced around the subject.

“I just want to have someone to talk to,” Jasmine confessed truthfully.

“Move away,” Darius said sternly. His eyes hardened when he saw Jasmine’s gesture. It was a thing that shifters like whenever their interlocutors lowered their heads to show their submission. It would boast their dominance, which made them feel more attracted to their opponent.

And of course, Jasmine knew about it very well. She had been observing their characteristics for years and had a mate for a shifter as well. There was no way she was clueless about the ways to interact with these non-human beings and all the gestures that they liked.

“You know how it feels to be an outsider in a place that doesn’t want you.” Jasmine lowered her voice. She looked very submissive right now. Nothing like her usual self at all. The higher the position of the shifter, the more they liked it when they could assert their dominance.

Though Darius was not a beta or gamma, he was still a warrior in this pack.

“I don’t know,” Darius said grimly.

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Jasmine raised her head and then looked at Darius with eyes that filled with sadness, as she walked closer to him. “You didn’t know, but your mate did.”

“Don’t talk about my mate!” Darius snarled at her viciously.

“Don’t you want to give your mate a second chance?” Jasmine furrowed her brows, she could see how her words inflicted some pain in this warrior’s eyes.

“Your words don’t make any sense.”

Darius could shove Jasmine aside and walk out of this bathroom, but he didn’t do that. He stayed there and listened to what else she wanted to say.

“Don’t you want to help me?”

“Why should I?” Darius’ eyes opened wide when he heard that. She must be crazy to even think that he would ignore a direct order from his alpha.

“Don’t you want someone to help your mate?” Jasmine looked at Darius with helpless eyes. “It is not fair for the alpha and the beta of this pack to be able to keep his human companions, while they killed yours.” She bit her lips and lowered her head again, as if she could feel his pain. “Do you think that’s fair?”

“You are not living a merry life here,” Darius stated the obvious. “Neither does that little human girl.”

“But, I am alive and your mate is dead. They killed her.” Jasmine knew that these words were harsh for Darius after what he had gone through, but he needed to hear this to see the glaring contrast between these two situations.

What Jasmine wanted to emphasize here was; the guilty feelings that Darius profoundly felt right now upon not being able to save his own mate, and the possibility that he could atone for that mistake by helping Jasmine.

Jasmine was very clear with her words and her intentions, but Darius seemed to not grasp that yet.

“Move away!” Darius snarled at Jasmine and shoved her to the side even before she could step aside. He didn’t want to hear that. His mate was still a sensitive topic for him and he didn’t want anyone else to talk about her lightly.

Actually, no one ever talked about his mate at all, as if she had never existed before this and Darius had been holding back every emotion, since it was not right for him to complain about what had happened, especially when he knew the animosity between the two parties.

And yet the irony of these two human women being able to stay in this pack without issue didn’t escape his attention.

Jasmine was right. Why did they kill his mate while they let these people live in this pack?

On the other hand, Jasmine grimaced as she felt her right arm was in pain after Darius shoved her aside quite harshly. She thought it would leave some ugly bruises later on. Meanwhile, from a distance, she could hear the loud sound of a door that was being slammed hard.

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Zuri didn’t feel hungry, thirsty or even tired to watch the interaction between Chaos and this little white wolf, despite the fact that there was not much interaction between them, since no one talked, except Chaos, who was mumbling a warning here and there when the little wolf stomped around.

Days had passed, but Zuri found herself watching everything in silence, without even getting bored. As if she was watching a very interesting movie that made you forget the time.

Sometimes, the wolf would sleep in Chaos’ lap, other times, the wolf would sleep near the bonfire that Chaos made, but the wolf would spend most of the day running around on the riverbank.

There was a rare occasion where the wolf was nowhere to be found, only for the creature to return with the game that it just hunted. It seemed the wolf parted ways with Chaos only when it got hungry, following its instinct to hunt.

Yet, there was nothing significant that happened. Zuri had not yet seen what kind of important thing that Chaos wanted her to see, until this fateful night.

There was one night, when the moon was so bright on the night sky and Chaos was standing near the river, when a young girl, with white hair that covered her naked body, came to him, smiling softly at him, just like the moonlight...

Zuri gasped loudly, her eyes grew wide when she saw who was that. She saw herself, walking toward Chaos, naked, with her long white hair covering most of her skin.

The little wolf was a shifter and it was her...?

She knew it was her, there was no mistake in this moment. Unless she had a twin, she was certain this girl was her. She had never seen anyone with white hair like herself.

“Who are you?” Chaos had asked the young girl, as she sat down on the ground, her white and long hair pooled around her feet, almost covering her entire skin, except for her skinny arms.

“I am Blue.”

That was the name that she chose for herself when Chaos asked her and also the name that she wanted to forget, but she still allowed Chaos to call her that way.

“You named me Blue because it’s the color of your eyes,” the girl giggled when she watched Chaos’ expression change.

“No.” Chaos sat up straight, he looked around him and couldn’t find the little wolf that always came to him, wagging its tail. “Where is the wolf?”

“I am the wolf.” The girl looked joyful when she broke the information about herself.

“No, you are not.”

The girl sighed exaggeratedly, she pouted her lips, but then she laughed to see Chaos’ taut expression.

“The moon goddess let me have this form to be able to talk with you. I asked her, though...” she tilted her head, staring at the moon above them. “But, it’s a secret.” She put her finger in front of her lips. “Selene said, I am the first shifter.”

The first shifter? This girl, who looked exactly like her, was a shifter? Zuri furrowed her brows deeply. She was unable to utter a single word.

“Shifter?” Chaos narrowed his eyes. He had never heard such a thing.

The girl winked at him playfully. “Selene’s new creation.”

Chaos said nothing about that and kept staring at the girl before his eyes. She looked so beautiful and somehow, he felt connected to her, the same feeling that he felt for his little companion.

Maybe what she said was right. She was indeed the little wolf.

And when Chaos was deep in thought, the girl stood up and walked closer to him, sat down beside him, as she stared straight into his eyes.

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“You have beautiful eyes,” she mumbled and then tiptoed by holding onto Chaos’ shoulder to give each of his eyes a kiss. “Thank you for letting me stay with you and also saving my life.”

At this moment, Zuri couldn’t find a single word to describe how she felt.

Right. Chaos saved her life that day when he came to the house that had repressed her. The way she claimed her name, which was the same name this girl called herself, was also similar. This was too bizarre to be stricken off as a coincidence.

However, the next day, Zuri watched the little white wolf die miserably.

This little companion was sent to Chaos because he was lonely, but the people took her away from him because they couldn’t hurt him.

The people in the village feared Chaos for the flash floods that happened, yet they took their anger out on his little companion.

And Zuri saw that was the day when Chaos turned into a villain in people’s eyes. He was feared for what he could do and their fears came true when he wiped the entire village that had killed his little wolf.

The same way he did when he wiped out the whole city...

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