Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee

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 tha
t 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 wave
d 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?
“So, it all started when Thiago and 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 sto
pped 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 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 who had marked her.” Oswin was explaining everything while makin
g my head go in circles.
“Then why did he tell you? Why didn‘t he think of severing that mind link between the monster and me like he did
to Jessica?” | raised a question.
“When he stopped Jessica from ending her life, we reckoned it was the monster‘s
doing. I 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 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‘ s words had sha
ken the world from under my feet. I was left with no excuses, nothing to yell at Thiago.
“Why didn‘t he tell me?” Lazlo, who was still grasping onto reality, asked.
“Because you dismissed him. He tried to speak to you, but you were not 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 he marks you,” he added, with a sigh of relief heaving across his lips.
“I am so sorry,” I was shaking in my skin, watching Thiago standing in the corner with his body showing no movement.
“You see, we have seen enough proof to think you are the monster,” Lazlo explained his actions.

“No! I heard you. You said it is more convincing because I am a Lycan and Lycans are monsters.” That shaky voice of Thiago
broke my heart.
“Enya! I 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 stared between us.
“No! We were going to–” Lazlo paused. We had run out of excuses.
“We were scared that you were the monster and if we confronted you without a plan, you
would hurt Jessica and the others too,” Lazlo explained. I instantly bobbed
my head, wanting to get close to Thiago, who was now keeping a safe distance from me.
“But you confronted me now. So, what is the plan? Is there a hunter waiting for me in the bathroom, hiding? Waiting for me to adm
can come out and stab me in the chest?” he stepped back from us, his eyes forming tears nonstop
“Oh, God!” Oswin sighed, holding his face in his hands.
“You confronted me because you thought I was
going to hurt Oswin. But you didn‘t when you thought I was hurting our relationship. You! You didn‘t even let me speak to you. Fine
“Tell me one thing,” he finally turned to us again. My heart was pounding in my chest and my eyes were shedding tears.
“Did you think about stabbing me with a silver dagger?” He asked, and my mouth hung open. “You did, didn‘t you?” He smiled to h
Lazlo and I acted very poorly in this scenario. We did confront him without a plan, so why didn‘t we do it before?

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