Alpha Roland smirked. "I tell you, the universe is helping us with this. We don't need to do anything." He sat down on the sofa and leaned his back, looking satisfied.
Xaden dismissed the guard and walked over to Alpha Roland. "I think we can speed up our plan."
"I want Khaos to go down with him too. He has been a good dog for your brother," Roland said, malice trickled from his voice.
"We can arrange that." Xaden smirked, but he confird one thing that he had suspected since the very beginning; Roland didn't really care about Zuri as much as he tried to show. His mask slipped and Xaden could see the coldness in his eyes toward his daughter.
He also knew that Roland had beaten Zuri up yesterday before he returned to the pack house.
Since Zuri's injuries were only cuts and bruises, by the ti he arrived and t her, she had already healed. She looked fine, but her eyes looked dead.
"What do you think you are doing?!" Karina hissed, she looked her daughter dead in the eyes.
Because Roland and Xaden were having a discussion right now, she rushed over to take advantage of the mont and straighten her daughter up. She had spiraled; not only did she not know what was good for her, but she actively sought death.
"How many tis should I tell you?! You can't provoke him! Do you want to die so badly?!" She was exasperated. "Do you know that he almost killed you?!"
Right now, Zuri was sitting on her bed, hugging her knees, as she stared into the distance. Her mother's shrill screams couldn't drown the voices in her head. She was back to feeling numb again.
This was not the first ti Zuri had been like this and every ti she went through this phase, it caused Karina imnse pain. She only had one child and it was a girl, but even though she was smart, she was... broken. Crazy, just as Roland would call her.
Roland kept blaming her for giving birth to a girl, a crazy girl on top of that.
However, Karina couldn't bring herself to hate her. Zuri was still her daughter after all, she wanted her to survive at all costs.
There were tis when Zuri looked completely normal, but there were also tis when she went spiraling and let her impulse control her.
"Are you even listening to ?!" Karina snapped, she cupped her face roughly and forced Zuri to look at her.
"Mother," Zuri called her in a weak voice. "Did you know that white wolves are very rare? There is a myth that says they are spiritual animals of the lycans."
Zuri didn't know why she started to blurt out a random story about the white wolves that Caiden told her during their stay in Lumicen city. That gamma liked to talk.
"What are you talking about?" Karina shook her head. She looked so sad, because her daughter was losing her grip on reality again.
"Mother, can we not talk about how to survive? My head hurts..."
"So, what do you want to talk about? A story about the wolves? Weather? Or do you want to talk about your favorite color?"
Zuri narrowed her eyes when she heard that. "Do you know my favorite color?" She didn't think she had ever talked about it or that her mother knew, and she was right.
"Heavens! Zuri!" Karina was exasperated with her. "Pull yourself together! Who cares about your favorite color?! If you keep doing this, they will replace you!"
"It's gray, mother." Zuri blinked her eyes. She didn't think she had a favorite color until she saw that pair of gray eyes.
"I don't care about that! You need to compose yourself, or your father will deem you unworthy and useless. He could cast you aside!"
With the wealth of the River Creek pack now, they didn't really need Zuri's constant assistance anymore. All the businesses could run without her, therefore, she needed to prove her other values to her father or else, Roland could discard her and Karina didn't want to watch Zuri suffer.
As long as she had her father's support, Xaden wouldn't dare to go overboard with her. That was what Karina thought.
However, Zuri didn't seem to care about herself.
"Mother, you are too loud." Zuri pursed her lips and shook her head, as she continued to hug her legs and rocked her body back and forth. She rested her head on her knees.
Watching her like this was Karina's worst nightmare. She stood up and walked out of the room. She needed to get in contact with that healer again. The current dicine no longer worked on Zuri.
The room grew quiet once Karina left. Outside, it was a beautiful day with bright sunshine and the sound of birds chirping. The wind was getting warm, as if to announce that sumr would be here soon.
A ray of light filtered through the window and Zuri watched how everything that the light touched produced a shadow.
She had her own shadow, her dark thoughts that kept haunting her. The voices in her head were getting vicious.
And now, the voices in her head told her to kill her own mother when she snapped at her earlier, but thankfully, she ignored them as usual.
The only ti she followed what the voices in her head said was when she kissed him. She wanted to see him again, she wanted to have a conversation with him.
In her twisted mind, she kept replaying the ti she stayed in Lumicen city; listening to Caiden's random stories, but her favorite monts were when she got annoyed by Khaos, and he wouldn't take offense because he was the one who provoked her.
It felt easy and liberating to talk with him.
While her father, mother and Xaden called her crazy, Khaos said, she was not crazy. She was
only hurt.
Zuri raised her hand and tried to pat her head the way he did, but it didn't feel the sa.
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