Zenovia
I looked up at Sid with wide eyes and then back at the image in front of
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“When did this happen?”
“Two days ago” He answered.
Shit.
It was a massacre. A gruesome one. Bodies were lying everywhere but the fact that the corpses were
covered in blood was not what was horrifying.
It was the fact that all of them were killed in a very unique way. The bodies were strewn around the
ce, blood pooling around from a single wound or rather double wounds from the faces of all those
who were dead.
Their eyes had been gouged out but the rest of the body was devoid of any signs of torture or injury. It
was as if somebody plucked out their eyes but left the rest of the body intact.
It made my stomach churn and I could not look at it for more than a
minute.
Thankfully, I did not find any familiar faces among them which was a relief.
Sid let me stare at the image for a second before adding.
“Now you see why I did not want to send it to you on the phone.”
I nodded my head.
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Yet there were a few things I did not understand.
“What pack do they belong to?” I inquired.
“I am not too sure. The packs are trying to keep it hush and also from letting the news reach the Lycan
King?
“Why? He would try to help them.”
Sid took a pause and answered.
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“It could be that they don’t trust him anymore and want to take matters into their own hands or that they
fear he would snap their necks for letting the Rogue King im innocent lives.”
I mustered some courage and dared to look at the picture again.
“Their eyes were gouged out but that wouldn’t kill a person, right? I don’t see any sign of violence or
injuries on the rest of the body of the
corpses.”
Sid smiled. “Good observation. I noticed that too. And somehow I fear that he might want to target you
again and you would be reckless enough to want to fight him.”
Huh. He thought I was brave? I had not even been able to fight him thest time he tried to drug me.
As if reading my thoughts, he added.
“Bravery is not just when you fight. It is when you take a stand against the wrong. I am beginning to see
the subtle changes in your behavior and attitude. For the love of Goddess, I came here to warn you to
not go looking for him. He is a psychopath, Zen.”
For the love of Goddess…if only I had any love left for her.
The cogs in my brain were starting to turn. An idea was taking shape in my mind.
“The Rogue King did that for sure but why? He has been silent for all these days and suddenly he
starts killing people out of the blue? That makes no sense.”
Sid rubbed his left temple with a finger before answering.
“He has not been silent all these days. His earlier n of separating the young ones from their homes
did not go down as well as he had hoped for.”
I titled my head, “What do you mean?’
“When he came up with that n, he thought the lycan King woulde looking for him. He thought
the Lycan King would be desperate and want to negotiate a truce or talk. Sadly, King Cahan never
showed any signs of doing so.”
“May I?” I asked and Sid nodded as I pulled his phone towards me and
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began looking at other images in his phone. It was rude to simply start scrolling through the images on
somebody else’s phone without asking permission.
I had my manners. However, Sid did not bother checking what I was doing with his phone as he
continued.
Instead, he looked at the menu and ordered sandwiches, fries and juice for both of us.
“No, I am not hungry, Sid.” I waved my hands off when he repeatedly asked me what I would like to
have.
Sid changed his order and ordered just juice for me while he kept his order same. In fact, he doubled it.
I ignored the urge to ask him why he was eating so much at this hour and waited for his answer to my
earlier question.
When he saw me looking at him expectantly, he began.
“The Rogue King expected the parents of the kids to pressure the Lycan King to give in to his demands
so that he could have an easy way out, but Cahan did no such thing. I assume he was ready to let a
few kids die and see how far the Rogue King would go.”
At that I shook my head.
“Cahan would never let innocent people die, at least not willingly. He had his men look after the kids
from a distance and had ordered them to take action if anybody tried to harm them.”
“That’s what the Rogue King thought too…I mean about not letting the kids die part. But turns out
Cahan did not budge in all these months that the kids left their homes. The Rogue King wanted him
flustered and miserable. But the Lycan King turned him anxious. He carried out his meetings and lived
his life as if nothing had ever happened. No party was sent to search for the Rogue King I think. Even I
am surprised how the Lycan King let that slide. He is supposed to protect us after all.”
“You don’t know what the Lycan King has gone through, Sid. And I am sure you don’t expect him to
make his ns public so that it would easily reach the Rogue King’s ears.”
Sid nodded. “Fair point. I would still say King Cahan has really not been paying attention.”
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I narrowed my eyes at Sid.
“Speaking ill about your King while you lounge calmly in that chair is kind of low, you know that, right?”
Sid straightened his back but did not say anything further.
I recall Cahan always being buried in files and meetings. He did not even eat or sleep much while he
was trying to figure out how to solve the issue peacefully.
Then there was the fact that the Rogue King had not really left any solid clues that led to him. There
were confusing ones that would make Cahan’s men go round and round in circles.
After a few times, Cahan simply asked them to stop looking for the clues and just keep an eye on the
children. And Cahan had not said it expressly, but I think he feared he would lose his cool and go
feral if he ever stepped into the battlefield and hurt innocent people instead of enemies.
I strongly believed that was the reason he would be holed up in the office.
Besides, a lot had happened. Cahan had already lost his control once and had almost gravely injured
Elijah and destroyed a good chunk of the openwnsst time. I had be his anchor as well. But
that
knowledge was limited to our pack. Sid did not know of it nor did I want to tell him stuff.
It was always good to have an element of surprise.
“So he decided to leave a more violent message for Cahan?” I inquired.
Sid shrugged, “Seems like it.”
I had been scrolling through the gallery and I saw a photo of our living room where my father was
seated with Luna Celeste.
They were having dinner and father appeared to be a bit tense. His health had declined. There were
bags under his eyes and his cheeks seemed hollow. He had lost weight as well.
My fingers hovered over the image for a second as I looked at the most recent image of my father
before swiping it away.
And then there was another image of my cabin, the ce I had been calling my home before I was
thrown out of the house after Luna Celeste
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Chapter 142 showed up.
The cabin was just like I had seen itst time but in a better condition. The room was not in an
abandoned state but was clean and not turned into a storehouse.
A lump began to form in my throat that I quickly swallowed before pushing the phone in Sid’s direction.
If he noticed my reaction, he did not say anything.
“Now the more important question- how does he know you? And how do you have these images?”
Sid crouched further and lowered his voice to a whisper after ncing around to see that the other
customers were not eavesdropping.
“Thest time he was looking for Cahan’s weakness, he searched through all the packs and thought
you were one because you were the only girl the Lycan King had ever taken in his pack. And since you
have be a permanent member of his pack, the Rogue King thinks you
still are Cahan’s weakness.”
After learning all about the Moon Goddess and the First Children, the threat posed by the Rogue King
did not scare me anymore but I did fear losing Cahan. He did not deserve any more hatred or rivalry.
He deserved to live his life quietly and in peace.
“Am I?” I asked, a bit too sharply.