| CHAPTER 47 : GET RID OF IT |

A groan came out of my lips as I stirred awake. My body sat up before even opening my eyes. Who let the goddamn sun in? I rubbed my eyes with a yawn.

"Good morning, Babydoll."

I squinted my eyes open.

Chase stood at the very corner of the room; a long cutlass gripped in his hand. His blonde curls lay neat and combed on his head.

"What happened?" I mumbled, stifling another yawn while scratching my neck.

"You fell unconscious after the mysterious attack."

My eyes were finally able to open properly. I looked around and realized I'm not in King Alpha's room.

My eyes widened. The hell? Where am I? I looked down at my clothes to see I was clad in a different white t-shirt and sweatpants.

"Where am I?" I asked Chase.

"Just in one of the rooms of Saludom." He replied, "King Alpha ordered us to keep you away from his room."

I frowned in confusion, "Why would he do that?"

He shrugged, "No one's allowed at the attack scene."

My frown deepened, "What are you talking about?" 

"You got attacked last night. Don't you remember, boo?"

My eyes widened, "I got attacked-?! Oh, wait, yeah I did."

My mind recalled Ace and Casper from last night.

"For a second I thought you lost your memory." Chase sighed in relief.

"Where is King Alpha?" I asked, getting out of the bed.

"Work." He replied.

I nodded and took a look at myself in the mirror nearby.

"Ooh when did I get that?" I stared in distaste at the huge bandage on the side of my forehead.

"You were bleeding there. Drew bandaged you up."

"What are you doing here?" I asked, turning around to face him.

He grinned, "I was ordered to keep an eye on you and make sure, as King Alpha said and I quote make sure to keep an eye on that idiot, 'she's fully capable of frying her ass in her sleep.'"

I gave a flat look, "Yeah?"

He nodded, "Yeah."

"Well, my ass is still uncooked, isn't it?"

"Yup, you succeeded in not frying yourself. Also, King Alpha said you could do whatever you want today. You're free of training and working out for this day."

I leaned my back against the dresser, "Did he?"

"Yup."

I shrugged, "Okay, I want a change of clothes."

"Clothes?"

"Yeah," I looked down at what I'm currently wearing, "I want to dress up as my old style. You know? Something to feel familiar with." 

"Your wish is my command, Babydoll. What'd ya want?"

I gave him a brief description of how I used to dress before King Alpha kidnapped me.

He gave a salute before walking out the door, promising to get my clothes.

Till then, I combed my hair, brushed my teeth with the new toothbrush kept in the bathroom and did all the morning stuff to freshen up.

I almost screamed at the new presence in the room when I came out of the bathroom.

"God," I placed a hand on my heart, "Levi, you scared me."

He smiled, "How ya doing?"

"This bandage itches." I flopped onto the bed, "What do you want?"

He shrugged, "I'm the replacement if Chase had to go somewhere."

"Oh."

"So what happened last night if you don't mind me asking?"

A long and deep sigh came out of my mouth. My mind flashed with of memories Ace gripping my neck and throwing me against the wall.

"I don't know."

He furrowed his eyebrows, "What?"

"I don't know, it's all a blur." I lied, not wanting to explain the whole Ace situation and create more problems than there already was. I wanted to dig deeper into King Alpha's and Ace's relationship before I say something and ruin the chances.

He nodded and stayed silent, leaning against the wall and playing with a small switch knife in his hands. His nails were freshly painted black.

"Can I paint my nails too?"

His head perked up towards me, "Huh?"

"Can I paint my nails too? The same colour as yours."

He shrugged, "Sure."

He went out of the room. I waited on the bed till he came back with a small bottle of black nail polish.

He tossed me the bottle and I caught it after accidentally launching it into the air twice with my palm.

Looking at the bottle in my hand, I suddenly started missing Jade. Oh god, we used to paint our nails together every month. Tears formed at the brink of my eyes, and I forced myself not to cry.

Shaking away her thoughts, I shook the bottle in my hand before opening them and applying the dark black liquid to my fingers.  

Levi only stood in the corner of the room, silently watching, while tossing a tennis ball up and down in his hand now.

"Where'd you get that ball?" I asked.

He only grinned.

I finished painting my nails and showed Levi with a proud smile.

"Cool."

"I know, right?" I grinned.

Someone came barreling into the room, singing, "I got your clothes, Babydoll."

"Really?" I jumped up, excited.

"Yup," Chase smiled hanging me a shopper bag, "I selected the best ones for you."

"You had to leave 'cause you wanted to go shopping?" Levi widened his eyes and flared his nose at Chase. 

"Ezlynn needed a wardrobe change, Commander. So I aided her emergencies."

"Thank you!" I yelled and threw my arms around Chase. He hugged me back with a smile before I rushed into the bathroom to change.

I quickly got dressed into my new clothes and inspected myself in the mirror. Chase got me a vintage black t-shirt ripped from below, a pair of dark blue ripped jeans and to top it all, black combat boots. I smiled brightly at the familiarity of wearing a dark vintage t-shirt with the boots.

I walked out of the bathroom.

"I knew this would look good on you." Chase grinned from where he was leaning next to Levi. He was definitely a whole lot bigger than Levi from muscles and shoulders.

"So what are we doing next?" I asked, "I'm not letting my holiday from training go to waste by just sitting in one place."

"Oh I got the perfect idea," Chase grinned, rubbing his hands together, "you in?"

"Uh. Sure."

*

I opened the door to the room I was in before.

My smile instantly dropped when my eyes landed on King Alpha stretched out on the bed with his back leaning against the headboard. His eyes rose from his phone and stared, slowly taking me in from top to bottom.

Chase bumped into me from behind and I gave him a half warning, half pleading look. He got confused and peeked inside the room. I swear he almost screamed when he spotted King Alpha.

"I G.T.G, byeee." He held up a peace sign before dashing away.  

King Alpha continued staring at the huge Mexican hat on my head, to the pink fluffy boa around my shoulders to the two sticks of cotton candy in my hands and to the rainbow-coloured face painting on my face.

"You seemed to have fun." He stated blankly, no trace of emotion on his face.

I gave a nervous laugh, taking off the Mexican hat, the boa and dropping it onto the floor along with the cotton candy. I kicked it away from sight with my boot.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, coming further into the room and shutting the door behind me.

He gave a one-shoulder shrug, "I came to find you but you weren't here, so I just waited."

I nodded, "Oh. So what happened?"

He shook his head, looking back at his phone, "Nothing."

"That usually means there's something."

He shook his head once again, "Nah, nice outfit by the way."

I blushed a bit, "Uh thanks?"            

He remained silent.

"Oh come on," I flopped down beside him on the bed, "there's something on your mind. What is it?"

He scrolled through his phone.

"Alpha." I prodded his shoulder with my finger, "Alpha, Alpha, Alpha."

He turned to look at me.

"I'm in a really good mood today so anything you say or do won't affect me at all." I grinned.

"You're weak, inexperienced, you don't know how to defend yourself properly and you can't take care of yourself without needing someone or accidentally lighting up your powers. You're literally the victim of a thousand dangerous things in this world and you don't even see it. You keep prancing around as if there'll always be a prince charming to save you."

My smile fell, "Okay, that affected me a bit."

He shrugged, with the same blank look, "Someone had to tell you."

"But then what do I do?" I asked crossing my arms, "I am training."

"You need to train harder."

"Actually, I need a different training."

He raised an eyebrow at me.

"Lifting weights, fighting Sydney, squats, push-ups, those all won't help. You gotta train me for the real stuff," I said, "you gotta train me on how to use my magic."

His face turned a bit hard, "Magic ruins things. You don't need to learn that."

"But I do! My magic is stronger than me. I know it. And I need it if I have to fight supernatural creatures because normal training won't help me."

"It will, Queen of Crazy Thoughts. You just need to train harder."

"I got to train my magic too. You said you'd help me with it!"

"I meant I'd help you get rid of it."

I leaned back, shocked and puzzled.

I jumped out of the bed, hands on my hips, glaring at King Alpha, "I am not getting rid of my magic!"

King Alpha gazed at me, his icy blue eyes watching me intently, "You're gonna get rid of that magic whether you like it or not."

"You can try all the fuck you want because I'm not going to."

His eyes darkened, "Is that a challenge?" 

I gave a humourless look, "Sure if you want it to be."

He clicked his phone shut, rising and standing across me on the other side of the bed, "Ezlynn, your gonna get rid of that magic and you're gonna do exactly as I say."

"I don't know which Ezlynn are you talking to but this Ezlynn sure isn't doing whatever."

"Are you really that stupid Ezlynn?" his face masked with anger, "that magic drains you, leaves you exhausted, it comes out of nowhere and almost consumes you. You don't even know where you got that magic from!"

"I don't care! It's the only thing I have that makes me feel somewhat powerful!"

"Not until long, it does something terrible and then you'd end up-" he cut himself off abruptly.

"What?" I raised an eyebrow.

He shook his head, eyes squeezed shut with furiousness written all over his face, before looking up at me with dark eyes, "You know what? You do what you want. When things go wrong, don't come crying to me."

With that, he disappeared right in front of my eyes.

A loud growl escaped my lips as I grabbed the pillows from the bed and hurled it across the room.

Stupid, idiotic, asshole King Alpha.

He can't tell me what to do!

I'm my own free person with the rights of my own freedom!

I'm keeping my magic whether he likes it or not. 

In fact, I'm gonna do everything from now on without his consent or permission. I don't need him telling me what to do and how to do. I can control my magic on my own just fine.

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Date: 26 August 2021