Tasting All My Mates

215 Wrongly Accused

“No! We saw him on tape. He was controlling her,” I retorted, trying to correct Oswin.

“I saw him in person, too. He was telling her things,” Lazlo too joined me to ensure wasn‘t lying or having a misconception.

“Guys! That‘s not true. Thiago had been trying to disconnect her from the monster.” Oswin slapped his forehead. But it wasn‘t that simple for us. We couldn‘t just slap our forehead and say, oh, my bad!

“Then why didn‘t he take us on board?” I said, looking through Thiago‘s eyes.

“Because he was afraid that the monster was living in our heads. Okay! How about | explain it from the beginning?” Oswin waved his hand at us to calm us down. But what he was saying was really making me weak in my knees.

I wouldn‘t be unhappy if that were the case, but what about our relationship? What about the pain I am seeing in Thiago‘s eyes? Or maybe Oswin is getting fooled?

the monster who had marked her was trying to control her and make her hurt herself. That‘s when Thiago and I came up with this plan. Thiago stopped her from ending her life. He told her he was the monster and because she had never seen a monster when he showed her his Lycan, she believed him. His mission was to make her disconnect the mind link with the monster. I was shocked too when I – saw his wolf. I never knew, and I would never have guessed that much empathy could never come from a monster. When Jessica was severing the mind link with the actual monster, she told Thiago that the monster had his eyes on Enya. And that he is already

you? Why didn‘t he think of severing that mind link between the monster and me like he did to Jessica?” |

from ending her life,

about the cries in the field, I had already managed to get my hands on a little bit of that liquid. That night, we had to use it on me and Jessica to stop the mind link from building and keep the monster out of our minds. We didn‘t have any left, and the island was running short on it. We had to come here and find it first before we talked to you guys. He was injecting it into me to see if we made it right. That‘s all. I was right there in hiding whenever Thiago spoke to her. He did it all for you, Enya! He exposed his Lycan to her and me just so that he could save you from getting marked by that monster. Do you know how much he had put himself on the wrong side of that monster?” Oswin‘ s words

me?” Lazlo, who was

you were not ready to listen to him. We fathomed maybe that monster is already hiding in your mind.” Oswin shrugged his shoulders, “By the way, he can only stay in your mind, but he can not control you until he marks you,” he added, with a

shaking in my skin, watching Thiago standing in

think you are the monster,” Lazlo explained

I am a Lycan and Lycans are monsters.” That shaky voice of

that I wasn‘t a monster, but it was all sweet talk. You never meant it.” a tear rolled down his eye as he stared at us, “None of you came to me to confront me. What were you guys waiting for? Are you planning to find a way to kill me? To kill the big bad wolf?” His lips quivered as he stared between

to–” Lazlo paused. We

the monster and if we confronted you without a plan, you would hurt Jessica