Chapter 326: Mine alone
Lyra felt like she was not in reality. Her physical body was present in the Eagle tribe while her mind was wandering elsewhere. Alice’s lifeless head kept on appearing in her thoughts making her frustrated at the beginning but slowly numb. Why had this happened? Was Alice really dead? Because of her was she brutally murdered?
Her head spun and she felt dizzy with tiredness that washed over her like waves crashing into boulders. Alas, she was not some strong boulder that could withstand the waves, but a weak one. Lyra thought back on all the interactions she had with Alice. From the moment they met, it was clear that Alice hated her.....or it was more like she tried her hardest to hate her. What Lyra saw in Alice’s face when she slapped her and even when she tried to kill her was not loathing or, in a sense, hatred. It was more like Alice was desperate to somehow separate her from Kyrell’s life. Her reasoning for doing all this seemed more focused on Kyrell.
Although that made Lyra not like Alice, she too didn’t outright hate or want her to die. Instead, she had wanted to talk to that woman. What made her so adamant and what drove her so much to despair that she risked her own safety in trying to fulfill it? She wanted to ask her about this. Then, in the end, she wanted to decide on a reasonable punishment with Kyrell. Maybe Alice would have changed and decided to let go of her hatred towards Kyrell. Maybe...but this would never become a reality now that she was dead.
Lyra had thought she had come to terms with the happenings in the beast world to a certain extent but that didn’t seem the case anymore. She was no fool; Lyra knew about her mates dueling males who wanted to court her and kill them if they were persistent even after getting defeated. At first, she was disturbed by the senseless killings but kept silent to not further intervene in matters that she didn’t know about. She didn’t want to say wrong things when she was in a world different from hers.
However, she could now see that Alice’s death was not what was common in this world. Heck even if it was common, Lyra didn’t think she could ever get used to it.
"I want to leave" She let out her desperate inner plea while looking up at her mates. She didn’t dare look at Xavier even once and only wished she could somehow get far away from this place.
"We will, sweet girl" She heard Victor vaguely say before she felt some kind of a bright light spreading around her. Then she closed her eyes and was getting pushed somewhere to only stop the next second. Her legs felt heavy, and she felt frozen in place. Something cold crept up her legs, making her unable to move. And when she opened her eyes in confusion, she saw something that made her face go pale.
Dual-colored eyes resembling devil’s stared deeply at her, "You are not going anywhere, not until you tell me what I did wrong. I really don’t know.....please tell me"
"You bastard!" Lyra heard someone shout and felt someone else pulling her away from Xavier, "Stay fucking away from her!"
Lyra felt like a rag doll as she was pushed and pulled around but had no time to react before she felt a familiar voice whispering into her ear, "You will be safe, bunny"
"Kai?" A feeble voice left her lips and as a reply, she felt a nuzzle against the crook of her neck. Lyra closed her eyes in complete trust in her amazing lover and could sense moving somewhere. Kaizer had opened his own portal to take her away.
Xavier looked in anger as his pretty female disappeared leaving a void at the end both to his eyes as well as to his heart. A discomforting feeling he had never before felt squeezed his heart making him waver. She left him, just like that. Without even looking at him once before doing so. What wrong did he do that she just left him like that? Was killing the one who tried to kill her wrong? Why were they all behaving like he committed some kind of sin? If what he did was indeed a sin then Xavier didn’t care. He did what he had to do to keep his pretty female safe. Nothing more or nothing else. He was sure that she would come to understand it one or the other day. He did what her mates had to do and failed miserably.