A Mate For The Last Lycan-Chapter 72: GENTLE TOUCH

Khaos didn't know much about medicine, but even if the owner of the drugstore had never heard such medicine, how could he possibly have more knowledge than him?

With that was being said, Khaos left the drugstore and found out Zuri asked another drugstore about the same medicine, where she ended up with the same result.

This put Khaos on alert. He wanted to know why Zuri needed the medicine, but more importantly, what kind of medicine was that? And why Zuri insisted to find that non-existed medicine?

Khaos had a lot of questions to ask when he arrived at his guild and found Zuri holed up in her bedroom.

"She didn't want to tell me what she found out," Bryden reported it to Khaos, he looked annoyed. He must have asked Zuri about how her meeting with her informant, whether or not that person could help them with the lead that they had, but Zuri didn't want to say anything about the meeting without Khaos's presence. "Khaos, she knew too much."

"How's the ships?" Khaos ignored his concern and asked about the task that he gave him.

The beta looked exasperated when the alpha refused to listen to him. "Fine. Everything went well. The ships will arrive before winter." He shook his head and then tried to go back to their previous topic, but Khaos simply dismissed him.

"I am going to talk to her." Khaos walked past him.

"Ezra is on the way here," Bryden blurted out. He gulped down nervously.

Khaos stopped walking and turned around, his expression was unfathomable, but his gaze was ablaze with rage. "You told him about my whereabout." That was not even a question, but a statement, because who else had the audacity to go against his order aside from his own beta?

Bryden had crossed the line this time and the beta knew that, even though it was too late. He knew he messed up the moment he divulged Khaos's whereabouts to Ezra.

"He had been wanting a meeting with you, Khaos," Bryden reasoned, which was a very weak

excuse.

"I am your alpha."

The reminder was cold and intimidating, which made Bryden lowered his head and didn't dare to say anything anymore. He felt like the air was being sucked from his lungs when the alpha's fierce gaze bore a hole on his head, as he stared at the floor. Chill ran down his spines.

Only when Khaos turned around and left, Bryden could breathe normally. It was so rare to see the alpha was enraged, since he was rather a laid back person.

Khaos was the type of person that 'if you want something, then make other people help you get it'. His attack was not direct, but once you realized it, it would be too late for you to do anything.

Sometime, the alpha would be perceived as a lazy person, since he would sit back and relax, as he waited for his plan to fall into the right place.

This was also the reason why Ezra thought Khaos was rather impulsive and lacked of determination for their revenge.

Therefore, once Khaos lost his calm, it could be terrifying and Bryden knew, he had crossed the line with the alpha.

The beta was not sure what was the deal between Khaos and Zuri and why the alpha accepted her readily when she didn't add exceptional benefit for them, but for now, he wouldn't do anything. He still felt the chill of the alpha's gaze.

Meanwhile, Khaos went straight to Zuri's bedroom. He knocked on the door and took her five full minutes to open it.

Upon closer look, Khaos could see how haggard, pale and unhealthy she was. Her cheekbones were sharp. She lost so much weight. The simple white dress that she was wearing didn't hug her body, but hung on her like a blanket.

"I am sorry, I was sleeping," Zuri said, she stepped aside and let Khaos in. She had her hair down, probably because she didn't style her hair like usual or wore any make up and jewelry, Khaos could see the fatigue that she tried to hide.

"How's the meeting with your informant?" Khaos asked calmly, as he walked toward the sofa and sat there. Zuri followed him and sat next to him. She still looked sleepy, but answer his

question.

"He said he will get back to me in two days. He heard about the stamps, but it was two months ago and your lead that said a merchant from different continent could have it, probably is true. He will let us know which merchant has the stamp." That was the gist of her two hours long conversation, but then Zuri explained in detail.

"How do you know him?"

"Rhett introduced me to him when I went here for the first time. I was sixteen," Zuri explained. "He has been travelling a lot and knew a lot of people and when I went here for the second time with my father, I met with him again for some business related."

Khaos listened to the detail of her explanation, but his eyes took a note of her. The way she repeated a few words, the way her eyes would wander, as if she was waiting for something to pop out of thin air, or how she would be fidgeting. She was anxious.

"... I am sure, we will get the information that we needed in two days. He is exceptional in this field." Zuri ended her explanation when Khaos's hand touched her neck and ran his thumb against her collarbones.

She waited with anticipation when Khaos ran his hand down her arm and then touched the side of her body, before he rested his hand on her ribcage and caressed her stomach lightly.

His touch was gentle and it felt foreign for Zuri. She knew pain. She was familiar with pain, but gentleness was something she was still having a hard time to associate with.