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?

I saw Jessica wandering on the road and towards the hills back when we were on the island. We left that drive–in cinema area to follow her. It turned out 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

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

Jessica from ending her

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

who was still grasping onto reality,

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

so sorry,” I was shaking in my skin, watching Thiago standing in the corner with

enough proof to think you are the monster,” Lazlo

convincing because I am a

knew I was a monster, but you two–— you two constantly told me I was not. And then I started to believe it. I was happy 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

going to–” Lazlo paused. We

a plan, you would hurt Jessica and the others too,” Lazlo explained.