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?

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 residing in her mind. Obviously, she told Thiago all that, as if she was just gossiping with the monster about what he had told her about his plans. But we figured the monster was going to mark Enya soon. It devastated

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

ending her life, we reckoned it

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‘

didn‘t he tell me?” Lazlo, who was still grasping onto reality,

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 sigh of relief heaving across his

my skin, watching Thiago standing

enough proof to think you are the monster,” Lazlo explained

is more convincing because I am a Lycan and Lycans are monsters.” That

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

paused. We had run out of

monster and if we confronted you without a plan, you would hurt Jessica and the others too,” Lazlo explained.