Chapter 124 - Left With Regret

"Woah! I had expected such a loud reaction from you, big brother..."

"SHUT THE HELL UP BEFORE I SLIT OUT YOUR TONGUE!" Grumbling out like a storm, Zeus clenched his grip viciously on his collar glaring with his fiery dominant red eyes. He looked much terrifying and had almost lost his self-control when Eva's name was meddled in between the brothers' conflict.

Staring at him swirling his eyes wider, Czar tossed out a burst of amused laughter at his loud reaction. He didn't seem a bit perplexed at his roar but instead kept that sly look on his face.

"Why the fuck you are laughing at? Do you find this... funny?" Zeus's temperament was further accelerated with his absurd reaction and viciously enough, he chose to probe him in a low voice.

"I am...laughing at your state, big brother... Oh my, I didn't expect to watch you going all crazy and helpless so soon... I guess the deities are on my side in this fight..."

"If you lay a single finger on Eva... From that moment, I will forget... that you are my brother!" A cold, frigid, atrocious threat blurted out of him as he scowled his grimace, leaning his face a bit closer to him.

"What a crazy jerk!" Mumbling out in a low voice, all of a sudden, the sly smile that he had on his face depraved entirely and it was occupied with mystic darkness swallowing him all over. Immediately his dark brown pupils transformed into the illuminant blue color while he was attaining his beta form, burning in rage. "Don't even try to rub salt in my scars, Zeus Romano! When did you ever consider me like your own brother?" 

"Always! I have always looked upon you as my own brother! I have always cared for you more than anyone you ignorant fool--"

"Lier!" Before he could conclude his statement, Czar lost all of his calm and shrieked out at him. Fiercely, he gripped his collar back and rolled his eyeballs while gritting his jowls in anger. "You all are fucking liers! All you people just know how to put up a fake act before others acting all innocent! But sadly, I am not like you who bothers to put up a fake show! I will yell out whatever comes to mind and do whatever I want! Who the fuck are you to stop me?" 

A moment of awkward silence persisted between them as Zeus stared invincibly at him straight in his eyes. Gnashing his teeth, he shoved him away from him leaving the grip over his collar and using his force which propelled him in the opposite direction from him."Your hatred has made you blind, Czar...Even the truth has been always in front of you all these years...but still, you have always blamed me for everything that ever happened! I...I have tolerated your childish fussing all these years...but this time, I won't stay still if you try to involve with Eva. She is an innocent one--"

"My mother was an innocent being too! But was she spared by the pack? No...She was murdered by you vile creatures!" Roaring out in a broken tremulous voice, Czar clenched his fist hard while glaring at Zeus from the distance. His eyes were glistening in tears when he growled out his grudge at him. "Just the way hearing your woman's name is hurting your soul...the same way...every day...every fucking day I have been dying inside in remorse... Do you feel now, how it likes to survive with the pain of regret? Can you realize it now?"

"Czar...not only you have been living a remorseful life! Don't be too selfish and open up your heart to glance at the people around you trying so hard to exist... Not only you are the one living in grief--"

"I am selfish and I will lead my life however I wish! Quit lecturing me and worry about yourself, big brother..." Holding a dark agitated glare, he vexed out his words in a cold voice. "What will you do now? It seems you will be going to face the same tragic outcome your beloved uncle has endured... She is a hybrid and you know it well, how they are targeted by the other wolves! How will you make her your mate? Till how long you will keep protecting her? You do know the truth that...You are nothing but an incapable alpha who can't even protect his own people! So how can you save her life?"

His heart was tearing apart into pieces hearing out his vicious accusations and with an agonized soul, he was clenching his fist helplessly, lowering his gaze down drenching in rain. His head was feeling dizzy and a surge of pain was throbbing his insides. "I won't...I won't allow the history to repeat itself again... Never..." He murmured on his own in a frail tone.

"Brace yourself for all the sufferings on the way you have chosen, big brother. Your forbidden fruit of love will burn you down to ashes and I will enjoy every moment of it... I will be waiting for the day she knows your real existence. I can't wait to see the look on your face when she will be the first one to abandon you! It will be such a sight to enjoy!

But do remember, no matter what happens, I won't allow you to lead a peaceful life...not until I am alive... I am willing to become the antagonist of your story, just to watch you suffering like hell! Keep it in mind..." Grumbling in an intense pitch, immediately right before his eyes, Czar disappeared amidst the immense rainfall, leaving Zeus all alone standing in the dark. 

For a while, he stood like a pillar sobbing in grief and his heart being stirred up for her safety. The real truth behind Eva's existence was much bitter than he could ever expect! Losing his beloved one after his granny, his heart was butchered into pieces and somehow, he wasn't able to gather the strength to face Eva bravely at that moment. For the first time in his life, he felt scared of revealing his own truth before her. Unable to stifle the unspeakable agony, he lowered his head down with tears dripping down, mixed among with rain droplets.

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It was around 3 am in the morning. The rainfall had stopped a while ago and the sky was gradually becoming clear after such heavy precipitation. Staggering on his feet and holding a tear-soaked painful grimace, Zeus eventually returned back to Eva's home, fully drenched wet from tip to toe. As soon as he clutched open the doorknob, entering inside, someone dashed out straight into the living room in the flick of a second.

"Zeus? Where the hell you have been? Damn, I was so madly worried for you!"

He raised his chin up staring at the front where he saw Eva, looking all anxious and frowning her eyebrows vented out her remark. She was already awake from her slumber and seemed terribly worried about him from her appearance. A dim yellow light was illuminating in the living room but in his mind, he was swallowed up in profound darkness.

He didn't utter a single word and continued staring at her with a sad gaze like a mute. 

"Oh my gosh...Zeus! You are fully drenched wet! Why did you go outside in such harsh weather? It has been raining so badly outside! Gosh, you must have caught a cold..." Quickly glancing around the room, she grabbed a small towel lying on the couch next to her and dashed closer to him. Frowning her eyebrow ridge, she started wiping his soaked hairs seeming much concerned about him.

"Why do you always make me so anxious, Zeus? Do you even know since how long I was waiting for you---"

"You...You were waiting for me?" After a long silence, finally, a cold response came back from him.

A bit startled at his absurd question, Eva swirled her eyeballs and continued glancing at him straight in the eye. "Of course! I was deliberately waiting for your return! Once I woke up from my slumber, my head was feeling dizzy but what troubled me the most was not having you by my side! I was panicked, scared of the thunder... But when I saw you had left your belongings here, I eventually knew that you would return. But why did it took you so long? Do you even know what time is it--"

"Why?" Before she could wrap up her words, a teary crooked question came back halted her speech momentarily.

"Pa-Pardon?"

"Why do you love me, Eva?" Staring straight into her dark pupils, a cold answer was reciprocated from him.

Eva seemed oddly startled at his query and like a numb person, she kept gawking back at him. "What kind of question you are asking me...Zeus?"

"Why do you love me? Why did you choose me? I...I am not worthy of your love! I am not worthy of anything! I...I am a loser...I am a fucking failure! Why did you fall for me?" Bursting out in tears, he screamed out aloud causing a sharp echo in the room.

Her heart throbbed out hard in dread hearing his sharp lament. Gulping her saliva, she mumbled slowly, "Ze-Zeus, what has happened to you? Why are you being like this?" 

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