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?

– 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 Thiago. He couldn‘t tell you anything because what if the monster hears what we are doing? He had to sneakily speak to Jessica and convince her that he was the monster

think of severing that mind link between the monster and me like

stopped Jessica from ending her life, we

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

Lazlo, who

Oswin shrugged his shoulders, “By the way, he can only stay in

was shaking in my skin, watching Thiago standing in the corner with his

think you are the monster,” Lazlo

heard you. You said it is more convincing because I am a Lycan and Lycans are

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

to–” Lazlo paused.

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