This was the first time Roland found himself completely losing it. His claws emerged and he was ready to rip her heart out of her chest.
Anger blinded him and Zuri's taunts only fueled it further.
The fact that Zuri knew she was tempting death didn't deter her. Feeling this pain, instead of numbness, was not bad either.
Eerie laughter still came out of her lips and when she saw her father's claws emerge, she looked him in the eyes. She felt fury radiate off of him in waves and remembered the father that she once had in the past. The father that braided her hair. The father that took care of her. Someone that deserved the title.
She wondered; when did it start changing? Was it when she was nine that he discovered her talent? She was not sure, but now it didn't matter anymore.
His body exuded killing intent and he was going to kill his only daughter for real if it was not for her mother. Karina shifted into her wolf when she saw what Roland was going to do to Zuri. The beast lunged at him in time to claw his arm and snarl at him, forcing him to back away.
And that was the last thing that Zuri remembered.
She had been spiraling, her emotions hit rock bottom or as high as the sky, thinking she was invincible and smart enough to get herself out of trouble. Any trouble.
***
"Alpha Roland and Alpha Xaden have been in contact with the Great Lunar Kingdom." Caiden sat across from Khaos. "Our people said that Alpha Roland has been funding Alpha Xaden's activities and apparently, his latest activity before he was sent to Mount Eve was to seek the rogues and meet with their leaders. What do you think they are doing?"
Rogues.
They were shifters without a territory, usually found in large groups, moving from one place to another and most of them would take any dirty jobs for money. Mercenary work being the most common one.
"They are gathering warriors," Khaos said.
"For what?"
Khaos went to the window and stared at the blue sky. His mind drifted to that night in the carriage, but he answered Caiden's curious question with one simple word.
"Coup."
Caiden's brows hit his hairline. "So, Alpha Roland has been funding this movement?" Caiden checked on the report again. "I thought they were in a good relationship." They had this suspicion ever since the union between Zuri and Alpha Xaden happened, but the new evidence was the solid proof of that.
"The palace is always a bloody place." Khaos' gray eyes turned slightly darker.
"Will you tell King Dacre about it?"
Khaos gave some thought to it. "Let them play their own game." He didn't care who sat on the throne of the Celeste Kingdom, at least, not now. His own plan was still in motion too.
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