144: She has been the one

Kai’s POV

Not her, God.

“Alpha Kai, are you okay?” Levi’s hand grabbed my shoulders and shook me firmly.

When I looked up at him, I realized that I’d unknowingly crouched beside Leila’s dead body and I was absentmindedly checking for a pulse. It was a fucking dumb thing to do especially because I could clearly see the hole in her chest that indicated that her heart had been ripped out.

And no, I wasn't okay.

Leila was bound to my hip from the first day we shared a morsel of bread together, and although I hated sentimental shit, I hadn't forgotten the promise we’d made to each other that day to live so long that we’d become elders.

“H—ho… how?” I dragged in a ragged breath because of how heavy that question had made my chest feel.

Recently, I’d been asking questions that I didn't want the answers to, but they were necessary questions so I couldn't exactly avoid them. From the moment I’d identified the dead body to be Leila’s, a feeling of dread caused a hole to plummet in my intestines