Khaos set her free, but why she did not feel happy? Was she too comfortable to be trapped in this endless misery?
He told her to leave, so she didn’t need to suffer anymore, but why all she could feel was this strong sense of abandonment?
Was she too broken with no way to fix it anymore, thus she preferred to suffer as long as she was with him? Why instead of happy that she didn’t need to be in pain anymore, she was angry and sad.
"Leave, Zuri."
The word hurt her so badly, she didn’t want to hear that. She wanted him to take it back. She didn’t want to hear that awful word. She wanted to claw his heart out, so he couldn’t breathe that word again.
"Everything is ready for you." Khaos kissed her forehead. His touch was always gentle. "You have until tomorrow to decide this. Go through the secret tunnel and no one will stop you."
And after saying that, Khaos pulled away from her. She gasped when she lost the closeness with him. She longed for his warm and touch. She grappled with her sanity, trying to be logical with the situation, but her mind didn’t work.
She wanted to rush toward Khaos and hugged him. She didn’t want him to turn his back on her, but all she could do was standing there with dead bodies on the floor and blood in her hand, watched him disappeared behind the close door.
The quietness that returned to this room gripped her heart and the voices started again.
"No. Stop. Shut up. I don’t need your opinion. No. you are wrong. I don’t do that," Zuri talked to herself, as she walked out of the room an hour after Khaos left and found Gayle was standing outside of the door.
The new gamma stared at her, there was a sympathetic look in his eyes.
Zuri held his eyes for a while, but she walked away toward the woods with Gayle followed behind her. The night was still cold and the pale moonlight shone in the dark sky.
"Where are you going, Zuri?" Gayle finally asked after he followed her for half an hour, they had walked past the spot where they used to train together.
"I want to clean myself."
Gayle was rather surprised that she answered his question, since she had been murmuring to herself. "But, you can take a bath in one of the bathrooms in the pack house."
"I need to clean myself."
"Huh?"
Gayle couldn’t understand what she meant, but he followed her anyway. Khaos had ordered him to keep his eyes on her and that was what he was doing right now.
However, it didn’t take long before Gayle understood what she meant. They walked toward the river. It was frozen, but there was some part that was not covered with ice and Zuri walked there, she stripped off her dress as she walked and this made Gayle freaked out.
"Hey! I am still here! You shouldn’t be naked in front of me!"
Instead, Zuri turned around, she was only in her undergarment and as fast as he could, Gayle turned his body around, so he couldn’t see her nakedness.
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