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Chapter Ten - Khai
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2025-01-23 06:40:18
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Khai and I walked home, hand in hand. It felt right like I’d combust into a million pieces if he ever let go of me. He had called it home when he suggested we return, so I eventually called it so. I had to call someplace home. I was glad to be in clothes I was familiar with but his clothes were better, cleaner, fancier. Softer.When we got home, he led me upstairs to his room where I made acquaintance with something called a shower that shot pressured water out of a head above me. The warm water added weight to my dreadlocks as I scrubbed them with some goo-like substance that smelled like lavender. Honestly, I didn't understand why I needed soap to be clean. Back home my siblings and I jumped into the river and swam around and called it a day. But here I was using soap and a towel borrowed to me. It was his, I could smell his DNA.I squeezed the jelly-like liquid and scrubbed my body with an artificial loofah.Through all the scrubbing I felt the need to scrub harder, the black marks
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That made me nervous. Who was everyone? Was it all those eyes that cornered me that day? What would they even think of me?I'm certain they diagnosed me as unstable because I went straight into panic mode that day."Already?"I was satisfied knowing Jacob, Yolanda and the other girl alone. Oh, and his mother, whom I adored on the case of existence alone but everyone, who was everyone?"I want everyone to know. They need to know. The pack needs to be assured that the Luna has been found.""Khai.""They'll like you,” he said as he walked to the door.He stopped and turned his head back to me."They must,” he said darkly.“Please don’t force them to like me. I don’t think I’m that unlikable.”He guffawed.“I will try my best.”“Khai?”“Okay! I promise. It’s just hard. I’m basically on auto-pilot now.”I arched a brow at him. He rolled his eyes.“Fine,” he agreed and left.I was flushed, I could see the hints of red under my caramel skin.I could understand him. Perhaps that’s how things
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"Ma!" Hannah reached out for her Edna but she slipped through her fingers.Edna had first picked up the dish thrown it into the sink and walked out through the kitchen door. Wind gushed at me as I was directly facing the door, leaving me with tension I didn't understand.Hannah went after her aunt."Was it something I said?" I asked, guilt-punching me in the face."No," Khai said with mindlessly. His mood had shifted too. All that joy was sucked out.Was it me? What had I done? Would anyone explain? I felt too afraid to speak again. It seemed my questions only upset these people.Whether it was me or not, silence refused to depart after that, everyone shared knowing stares while I sat there looking like a fool. Yolanda looked at Jacob who just sighed."I'll heat the pasta. Falcon, will you help me?" Linda suggested responsibly and continued where Edna had left off.Falcon was Hannah's mate and he was just average-looking. There was nothing impressive about his pale skin. Every time I
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I found them in the living room."You will respect her as you do me. If you can't, leave," Khai growled.Eddie was kneeling, kissing the ground with his forehead as if bowing to him. His body trembled and I could see tears glistening in the light. His jaw clenched.Khai's eyes were a merciless icy blue. His expression twisted in anger.What had Eddie done?I could feel Khai's power, only slightly. I could only imagine the immense pain he bore into the back of Eddie's head. It was a gentle pain in my head, like the first signs of a headache."You will count your words, boy.""Khai? What are you doing?" I shouted.Eddie sniffled and struggled in grunts, curling into a ball."Punishing him,” he said.He kept his eyes focused on Eddie. The pain worsened.Eddie fell to one side, gripping his stomach and letting out a small scream. Linda walked in behind me. Her hands clasped her lips as she held back a scream. I watched her as she stood by the arch, watching helplessly in horror.That was
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A few steps away from me, his stiffened. I would've been pleased to see him turn around and apologise if it weren't for a blood-curdling scream from outside. Followed by a loud growl and snapping jaws. Khai looked back at me, mortified.If he was angry earlier, he was enraged then. We ran outside.The scream became louder and more alarming.Yolanda and Jacob came out of the nearest room and joined us.So that was their room.They phased right there and then. Yolanda turned into a gracious tawny wolf and pounced out onto the porch. Jacob stood beside her, a strong grey one.Linda looked at me from the living room with her son. They both nodded to me with reverence as we came out.The cold licked my naked thighs and I regretted wearing the dress in the first place. The house was so humid while the outside was the exact opposite.Wolves.A brown wolf led two to a red-haired girl crying her lungs out.Grace.She crawled on her back as the brown wolf pounced on her. She bared her arms as s
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War ensued around me. Hannah was attacked by two wolves. Falcon arrived and ripped one off her, throwing it into the trees with his mouth. The wolf hit the ancient oak tree with its back, curling up like a dying spider. Eddie and Kyle fought together as five wolves encroached around them. Linda's jaw came up with a bloody oesophagus, its owner dying under her. The little light in the dying wolf's eyes went dim as they looked at me.I staggered back, my feet weighing tons. I couldn't move. I couldn't think. I was stuck here... again. Pure white snow turned red and furry as the packs tore each other from limb to limb around me. I couldn't watch it. I couldn't be here. No. Not again. I fell to my knees, drew my body close to me, shut my eyes and blocked my ears. I couldn't stand it. The flood of brown and sandy shades of browns and greys in on the snow - all I could see was home - my pack, the Azraels and death. I froze, not because of the cold. Apprehension flooded over me and
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Why didn't they call us? A thought went.Hurry.I sense her, can you?Yeah.We can't lose her.Or him. All these different voices spoke in my head, I started to believe the nausea was getting deadly so I shut my eyes and they all pounced on me, tearing my skin and scaring me. The wolves clawed at me, howling for their injured alpha.I couldn't believe I had just injured an alpha.I tried to move but I was paralyzed, my ribs were broken.Claws were on my eyelids. I tried to filter the pain but it didn't help. They all climbed on me, at any moment whatever was holding my bones in place, my skin together would let up. Jaws sank into my shoulders and legs, stomach and face. I couldn't breathe or cry.Khai was near and he growled, snapping his jaws at the enemy. The voices kept on recurring, doubling in numbers. These weren't my thoughts. Khai tore some of the wolves off. His tepid tongue licked my face.Relax, they’re here. His voice was now in my head.I laid still and remained as calm
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"I concur with Whitney." The man said, confirming my theory of the woman's name."I don't," Khai simply said."But-" the old man began."I'm done." Khai rudely cut off. His desiccated eyes signalled the end of this conversation.Whitney and the man stepped back and nodded simply.He was just done with the conversation, his interests were elsewhere. His eyes glared straight ahead at Grace who lumbered down from the stairs. She was approaching, barefoot on the snow, her eyes hesitant on his icy ones.He also walked straight to her. Grace held her hands out in defence."You! Grace you! You!" Khai shouted. He didn't have the words."This is all you. Look now, we broke the treaty for you!"Grace started breathing heavily, trying to explain, I could tell she was afraid of the consequences of what she did. Whatever it was, I was anxious for her. Grace shrunk under him, scared."Tell them, tell them all what you did."Khai was terrifying then. Grace cupped her hands and quivered."Say it!""
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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,
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I was told I was not needed for the meeting that was happening in the living room. What could I say for myself anyway? I could hear them shouting from downstairs, anger and confusion laced in their voices.Audrey and I sat in Khai’ and I’s room… my room. She dressed up in Yolanda’s sweater and jeans and she looked better in them. As I was dressing up in the bathroom Audrey had already made the bed and put everything away.“It still smells like him in here,” she said as she folded a blanket and put it away in the wardrobe.“You didn’t have to do that,” I said as kindly as I could.Inside I was fuming. How dare she change everything? The room was so neat and tidy it was like any other day. She smoothed the bed until it had no wrinkles before she sat on it.“I cannot sit in disorder,” she stated.Her face was placid and innocent, I couldn’t find it in myself to yell at her
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I could hear them just as we were a few trees from the main house.Abomination!Surely you cannot expect us to bow to a woman. This is not something we decided for ourselves; it was placed upon us. Have you lost trust in your ancestors?The last voice was Khai’s grandfather, to my surprise he was defending me. It seemed he was the only one on my side.Malcolm placed me on the ground. The sun hid behind a couple of clouds and I was still helpless as my body healed at a snail’s pace. If I had been like other wolves I would’ve healed by now. Intiyago’s head would be between my jaws. My body boiled with anger and rage and a surge of power I had no business having. This must’ve been what Khai experienced when he suddenly became the alpha.No, but that couldn’t be. I wasn’t the alpha. Firstly a foreigner, no matter how long they have assimilated to a pack, could never become an alpha but a woman... That was impossible for natives.The whole pack had been summoned, perhaps by my transformat
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With that, I launched into the forest, following my nose. Their smell hurt and that had to end. It had to end. I was going to end them. After all they put me through I would kill them slowly.The strength I felt pulsing through my veins and the size I was at then, I could taste their blood on my tongue. I wanted to tear them to shreds, starting with every pack member and ending with dessert. Intiyago. I wanted to first tear him from limb to limb and crush his skull.Tears tore from my face in the wind, my heart still mourned and I howled painful howls as I followed my nose. Yaga and Traga must’ve given me this power to do this exact thing. This would be for everything. For my pack, for the lives they took from Traga and lastly for Khai.Navigating through the trees was hard this time, I wasn’t as small as I used to be so I could not fit into places I used to. I was bigger, stronger… an alpha? Not only was I bigger, but I was also heavier and therefore slower.A few hits from miscalcul
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Knock. Knock.“Go away!” I shouted.“The elders are requesting you.” Malcom’s whisper pierced through the door.He sounded tender, kind and genuine. I think he was trying to comfort me but I wanted to be left alone. Forever.The elders? What did they want from me? Probably to hate me in my face or say in ten different ways how I killed Khai. And if that Whitney woman was there, they are here to tell me crap.They are probably going to kick me out.“Roman?” His voice became softer.I quickly rubbed my face against the duvet, wore Khai’s black gown and opened the door. Malcom’s strong and tall body leaned on the frame of the door, his upper arm resting above me. The middle of his forehead grew deep as his different eyes narrowed.“What were you doing?”I walked past him and went to the living room. I was not in the mood for Malcolm, for anyone. I’d face this quickly and swiftly.I found them gathered in the living room. The curtains were drawn and they all looked at me when I entered. I
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The man was right it had been two days. Two days was not enough for me to act like it was something that was supposed to happen. I had whiplash. It was just yesterday. He kissed me, held me, and read to me. Had he known all along? When he called the whole pack here to protect me, did he know he would die that night? I couldn’t wrap my head around it.“Is that how you guys do it?”Hannah sighed and looked up at me from the table.“Do what?” she asked tiresomely.“Death? You just move on?”She shrugged. Falcon rubbed her shoulders. Her eyes were swollen, and everyone’s eyes were swollen with grief but I couldn’t buy it. I couldn’t believe they were feeling the pain I was feeling. Where was the screaming, the crying, the drama? This wasn’t just anyone. This was Khai.“What do expect us to do?” she asked.This felt like a dream. Oh, how I needed it to be a dream.I expected the world to stop and not in a superficial way, I meant literally. The earth to stop turning, the sunrise, the birds
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I stayed with him for hours until I saw the next sunrise. I woke up to Hannah, she used a little voice, as if afraid of waking Khai up.“Wake up, you need to eat,” she said.She stood over me, her hair in a high ponytail, her skin so clean and beautiful like it was any other day. She kept her eyes focused on me to not look at the person beside me.“What? You can’t face it?” I asked.She sighed.“Roman, please.”She rubbed her hand along my calf. I sat up and realized my hand was still wrapped around Khai’s. I turned around to face him.His eyelashes were always disgustingly long. I envied his long eyelashes. I brushed his silky hair out of his face and gave him a peck on the lips. I felt some warmth between us but I knew I was crazy. I had slept with a corpse for two nights now. When I faced Hannah she was sobbing into her hands as silently as she could. I knew then I wasn’t going anywhere. I pulled the covers open and slid back into the bed beside him.“Roman, please.”“I’ll eat when
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I woke up with a sharp pain in my wrists. My eyes opened to the glorious warmth of health and I held my breath in deep, questioning this oddity. Perhaps, the poison was playing its games with me again. It wouldn't be out of the question. Then I wondered if Malcolm was somewhere in the room, among the bodies that laid asleep on the floor of our bedroom.I turned around to face my love whose hand was still in mine. I squeezed his hand to wake him up but his hand was cold. Ice cold. Khai stayed asleep and didn't move so I sat up and found dark orbs staring at me.They watched me with the darkest eyes, sitting on their hind legs with eyes filled with sorrow and melancholy. Then I felt it. The atmosphere and the world had grown thinner. It was like something that was always there went missing in the middle of the night. I turned my attention mainly to Linda whose eyes were actually a shade darker, almost brown. Everyone was in their wolf form as Khai had instructed them to remain.Their ey
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I got out of and left the med bay. I needed to be alone.It's not like I envied Linda's gift of twins. It's not like I wished to have as many kids as my parents did. It's not like I wanted to keep Sun Wolf blood alive. It's not like I wanted any of that. But when I got into the shower, with my clothes on, I wept incredibly. I sobbed like a five-year-old and screamed as silently as I could. I wanted it. I wanted all of that. I wanted kids. I wanted twins. It was a desire that burned in me as soon as I saw Fern. She was young and full of life, something I needed. I needed someone of my blood around, I wanted kids. Even one would’ve been enough.I knew it was Yaga who brought me back.I know you brought me back so why didn't you bring back my family? Why do you keep hurting me when all I do is worship you? When all I do is give you my all. You’ve let everything be taken from me. Did you make me so you could watch my melancholic story unfold? Let me die and bring me back to kill me inside.
