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2025-02-13 13:41:28
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She Was The Queen Chapter Forty-Five - Khai
"I don't know if we were supposed to act like we did not hear that," Yolanda said as she walked into the kitchen with Jacob.Jacob narrowed his eyes and beamed."Me either. Are we supposed to look at them funny or wink at them? I don’t know," Jacob laughed.I put my book down at looked at the most childish adults I've ever seen, both looking at me like excited parents."What is this?" I asked helplessly.They must've seen us in the corridor when we left Grace's room yesterday. Must've heard the beginnings of something that went nowhere."Ey! Look at that glow," Jacob clapped his hands."What glow?" Roman happened to walk in, in a tank top and jeans.She looked great in her clothes. They fit perfectly.Yolanda and Jacob giggled between each other."A full month, that’s the longest it's taken you to get into anyone's pants," Jacob said.Yolanda barked in laughter. Roman stood in the middle of the kitchen awkwardly. I sighed. These things made her uncomfortable."Nothing happened, you guy
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Khai tugged me into an unknown distance. I wore a trench coat and boots. We were about a mile away from the house when a shelter appeared. It had two giant brown doors that pulled up vertically when Khai pressed a button.Inside was a black matte car, small and sexy like a black mamba. He strapped me into the passenger seat."Why do you guys even own cars?" I asked when the engine roared to life."Humans don't want animals running in the streets. In the same way, you don't want them in the woods," he replied.I smiled. That was true. He looked more comfortable in this car than he did in the truck.We set off. The car was like its own person, it moved, and it roared. It moved slickly through the forest and smoothly along tar. Watching him handle the wheel with ease made me envy driving it."So, we're going to the city?" I piped up with my voice cracking.Whenever Khai took me anywhere he never said where. Khai agreed."Why?""You ask too many questions," Khai said curtly.It seemed he
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Cynthia smiled and left. Before she could properly get out of sight, she hollered something at me. I didn't hear it well but I caught the name luna."She knows me?" I slammed the table."Everyone knows you. I own this place."My jaw dropped that instant. So Khai wasn't a guy who just sat at home and drove around town to spend his time. He did something."All people who work here are Traga,” he said, slumping into his chair."I own most of the businesses in this city, a barber shop, apartments, etc."Then he chuckled."You think the government just blesses us with land and money to build all those houses.""The government?""People in charge of the people.""Government is not a person?""It's a whole lot of selfish people."The way Khai said selfish, anyone could tell he didn't like the government.No wonder Traga owned so much land, they were rich. No wonder they had all the things they did, unlike us who fended for ourselves, living on everything Yaga gave us.Now I had a different l
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I slouched back in my chair and admired my big stomach, full to the brim. So this was what it was like to have a rich boyfriend. Speaking of which, was I his girlfriend? He was my boyfriend, at least in my head but was I his girlfriend?A bell went and Khai's expression went from relaxed to disgust. I watched the young woman who walked in. She had the small frame of a little girl but her mature face gave it away - she had definitely been through life, the rough part of it. The woman wore a black beanie and black denim."Hi."She waved happily at Khai.I turned back at him."A friend of yours?" I asked with a brow up.He rolled his head back and she approached."I'm sorry, has he already slept with you?" she teased.The girl patted my shoulder and grimaced."I'm sorry to come onto you like that, I'm Bonny, Khai's ex. Lol, one of his hoes like others would say. Welcome to the club."Her black hair turned with her when she grabbed a chair to join us."Are you lost?" Khai was trying to ho
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I couldn't understand my feelings for Khai or our relationship. The stars had so perfectly aligned to make this pairing yet we fought at every turn and kissed at the second. It didn't make sense. Was this how love unfolded? In ebbs and flows?"So was that a promise? You're going to get rid of them?""All of them," he confirmed.He didn't face me but I could tell he was remorseful."How?" I asked."I'll tell them and cut communication."I hated that we were having this conversation at all. Why couldn't things just flow between us? Why couldn't we just be in love and have an uncomplicated relationship? Why weren't we just normal wolves? I hoped for something different, something perfect but I couldn't say what that looked like. All I knew was that it looked nothing like us.Khai reduced the speed of the car as we approached the house.He was ready to turn into the path of the shed when the car rapidly swerved and stopped near a t
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I watched them speaking through the window. It made me sick that the bastard was even breathing around me. I wanted to put his head between my teeth and grind his bones to dust and make his family some bread from it. He was such an asshole. How could he do that to Linda? She had given him everything, her love, her life, her body and now he wanted her kids? Why now after all this time? Had he returned for an encore?You can't just leave forever and come back."Calm down, Khai," Roman said sweetly as she rubbed my shoulders.She made me feel better but I still wanted to be angry. I held her hand on my shoulder and sighed in agreement."Oh, I want him. I really do," Yolanda growled as she punched the air.We were all watching from outside. It was like our own family drama. Eddie and Kyle stood inside next to their mother, listening to Greg talking a load of bull while Linda stuck to his side like a magnet.Poor thing couldn't help it, she misse
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At least here in the room, his temper fizzled out. He was so worked up about Linda and Greg that I wondered if they had a history. He assured me it was familial at most even though they weren't related. I believed him. Nothing outside of his passion raised alarm. Eventually, I'd have to accept that he cared for a lot of people, a lot of women who were not only me. He was a leader after all. But I would never make space for his side pieces.We'd come up here for a nap but then we started talking again. He told me everything about his inner workings. Slowly but surely he was becoming an open book.We were dosing off in each other's arms when something downstairs banged against the cupboard.His eyes shoot wide open. I gripped his arm and pinned him firmly to the bed and asked him to let me handle it. He tried to test me but I assured him he needed the rest more than I did. He made a guttural sound and rolled his eyes. Reluctant, he stayed in bed.In the hallway, banging fists on the cupb
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As I tried my best not to hurt him a putrid scent invaded my nose. I reeled back and Eddie ran away. Kyle ran past me, in pursuit of his brother. I tried to pick up the same velocity, ignoring the stench.The smell began covering Eddie and Kyle's scent and I thought I had lost them. But behind a thicket of trees, I found them at a halt in the midst of nowhere.I stopped as the scent became vivid at this specific spot. Their eyes were set on something. To my horror, I witnessed it once more. Greying flesh and flies feasting on it, dried bones and broken beams of roofs. The unfruitful ground and broken homes. I took in the village and blinked to try and steady myself. Kyle and Eddie stood frozen while I retracted, falling back.My legs felt weak and unable to move, I howled as the flood came to drown me again. Hollow grief, affliction, guilt and angst all at once. My body refused to function as I howled, replaying everything in my head. I shut my eyes and the replay became explicit.The
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The guard dogs ran ahead of me, howling in celebration. I turned my head away from the corpses and tried to convince myself I was walking back from somewhere else. But I couldn’t forget what I did, not while I had his skull in my mouth.The howls filled the air all the way back to Traga land. Outside the house many wolves in their human forms had gathered, ready to receive us. They were so excited to see us, cheering and joyful that the reign of Azraels was finally over. I placed Intiyago’s head in the middle of the garden and everyone erupted in joy.Where was my joy, I wondered. I couldn’t feel a thing.Intiyago haunted me for so long, made my life a living hell and now that I had ended him I felt no joy nor sense of completion. I entered the house and phased into a human in the kitchen.My behavior offset them but they continued to cheer and celebrate outside, hoisting Intiyago’s head and parading around with it. The house was e
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The world was red as I backed away, trying to shake the blood off my face. Intiyago walked slowly toward me. Prowling, Ravenous and angry but his eyes – his eyes were sympathetic.Roman, this is not what I want. His voice was soft in my head. He stopped in his tracks, his head lowered down and he licked drops of my blood which had fallen on a rock.No.But it was too late, his pink tongue wiped the rock clean and his eyes surged with a golden glow. A menacing growl ripped out of him.This is what I want!His voice was heavy again, dark and sharp. The sun healed the scratch and I could see properly again. I charged toward him and clawed at his face. Claw after claw I saw blood and more blood until his face was disfigured. He howled and jumped to the side where he rammed me into a tree. The impact almost broke my ribs but I got back up and gave him everything I had. I rammed him into the other tree and bit into his arm so hard I hit his bone.The painful howl he screamed satisfied me i
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Malcolm decided to return to the funeral with a busted nose and lips. I waited on the porch for the guard dogs to appear. They said that as soon as Khai was buried we would get to go.Nothing else mattered but my vengeance, nothing at all. There was no after. I couldn’t imagine it and if I died killing all the Azraels I would be satisfied, I would’ve achieved my life’s purpose.A couple of wolves… Ten? No fifteen. Twenty-seven? Thirty! Thirty, to be exact broke out of the forest, ravenous and ready to fight. Traga guard dogs. Slightly bigger than other wolves and their legs showed that they spent their time fighting and running. These were strong wolves. I almost felt pride when I saw them coming in, if no one knew – they would’ve thought they were wild wolves.I got to my feet as family members and other Tragas came back to the house in their human forms. Hannah ran to my side.“You don’t have to do this. You’re the alpha, send them out instead. You stay.”Vomit bubbled in the back o
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When we were out of sight he loosened his grip on me. My hand quickly found its way to his and I held it tight. I couldn’t let go of the warmth, even for a second. I still allowed my mind to play tricks on me. If I did not look at him and imagine his voice as Khai’s he would be Khai.“You can’t do that type of stuff. It’s traumatising,” he said.I knew it was wrong. I did not doubt it but I didn’t care.His other free hand ran down his face. He looked tired and sleepless. The bags under his eyes were swollen, and red cracked through the whites of his eyes. Had he not slept? I looked away from him, to the trees and anything else that would allow me to swap him out with who I wanted him to be.“That’s why we have to look at him before they shut the casket. It prevents such things.”Leaves crunched under his boots and my heels. My ankles and toes hurt.It was insane how it hadn’t been a complete year since I met Khai. I met him in winter and lost him before winter. I let go of his hand. H
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A blur turned into a man with long hair, hunched forward, his back to me. His shoulders moved up and down as he sat on the other end of the mattress. Sunlight poured into the room and it was warm.“What do you want Malcolm?”“Alpha,” he said dully. I groaned.“Please don’t call me that.”“Thank you, I wasn’t enjoying it.” He simply said.We were alone in the room, Edna and Audrey must’ve left for breakfast or something. A little tingle in my stomach made me desperately want to see his face.“Hey look at me,” I told him and he adjusted his weight.His hair was wet, dripping still and parted in the middle. He looked clean, it suited him to be clean.“Why do you keep long hair, you look like a songwriter,” I said.A small smile etched upon his face and I had no idea why it felt good. I hated it.On the other hand, my arms felt like they had been squeezed into immobility and my body was heavy. My nose was runny and I sniffled. I had been lying on one side the whole night, crying in my sle
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The hours went by and people stopped coming. Most must’ve been sleeping but I could hear them outside, mourning and crying, their whispers like the wind whistling through leaves.Before I could notice, Edna had curled into a ball and fallen asleep. Yolanda said she was going to the bathroom, but she never returned for a very long time. Audrey and I sat in silence for 20 minutes, just staring off into the darkness and the shadows that danced along with the candle flames.“She’s with Jacob, you know?” Audrey mentioned matter-of-factly.I looked over at her and her face was deepened by shadows, the crevices of her smile were like dark corners. The statement didn’t surprise me – rather I was absorbed in the atmosphere of everything. How dark and gloomy everything had gotten, how everybody’s smiles had turned into tears and clenched teeth. It only took a single moment.“How has this affected you?” I asked her.The question scared me at first, I was afraid she would give me something intell
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That night Khai’s bedroom was cleared and they only left the mattress. The room was as bare as carcasses my brothers and I left stripped of any flesh after a hunt. His smell went along with everything and all I could smell was the stench of cigarettes, old, from when Khai used to smoke as a teenager.The room was to be the main room of mourning. Whitney, Edna, Yolanda, Audrey and I sat in there with scarves covering our heads and the longest dresses and skirts we could find. Tradition was the reason for everything lately. We were supposed to sit there and mourn until the sun came up and the funeral began.I didn't want to do it, it sounded miserable. But then I realized I was nowhere above misery and I was the one who spent days with a corpse in bed, pretending and hoping he would wake up and call it all some foul joke. That never happened.Although I wasn’t officially a widow I was considered one. We never got down to tying the knot but his ring hun
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Malcolm’s eyes fell on me, cold and stern.“This is not Malcolm’s idea, it is simply tradition,” Raymond said calmly.“Yes… but I am the alpha, I can rule that tradition out of the book,” I said.Raymond’s face hardened. He stood up and stormed toward me. His hand wrapped around the collar of my shirt as he pulled me up to his level.“Haven’t you caused enough trouble, bitch? You will do as we say and fix what you broke.”His voice was coarse, hot on my cheek.“Raymond, calm down! Leave the girl alone!” Edna protested.With all his strength he threw me back into the couch and I sat back down. I tried not to show it but my heart was racing and I was scared. Raymond was a large man, akin to a bear. If we wanted to, he could’ve thrown me into the wall and broken through it.“Roman, I hoped I didn’t have to make it explicitly clear but
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Before I could get to know Audrey better Yolanda came to call us. Yolanda and Audrey’s relationship was characterized by brutal teasing, nothing was off the table. Yolanda only needed to say a sentence before Audrey criticised it.“Where did you pick up that atrocious accent?” Audrey asked as we walked down the hallway.At the first step, Yolanda tittered.“Must’ve been from those years when you tutored me. Heads up, read a book before you think you can lecture someone.”“I love to see you taking initiative, I didn’t know you could read.”The two giggled between each other. I didn’t know how to feel about the jokes though, since I couldn’t read.It never mattered if I could read or not back home, what advantage would such a skill afford a culture of people who hardly read? School didn’t exist either, at least in the formal sense. All older wolves saw it as their responsibility to educate those who were younger than them. One morning I’d find myself hunting with my father and the next,
