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?

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

severing that mind link between the monster and me like he did to Jessica?”

from ending her life, we

already had this fluid with me. When I heard 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

Lazlo, who was still grasping

listen to him. We fathomed maybe that monster is already hiding in your mind.” Oswin shrugged his shoulders, “By the way, he

in my skin, watching Thiago standing in the corner with his body

see, we have seen enough proof to think you are the monster,”

am a Lycan and Lycans are monsters.”

rolled down his eye

to–” Lazlo paused. We had run out

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