Page 76 of The Omega Archives: Part Two

I tried to say another word to refute him, but the moment he put a hand upIwas stunned into silence.

Or was this the mystical alpha power I always believed was so devious? Ifanythingit was helping me not make a complete fool of myselfright now.

“It’snot unnatural that an omega would find better sleep with an alpha.Youshould’vesaid something,”said Liam.

That wasbasicallywhat Cal was trying to say. And Demetri, even though when he said it, it sounded like I was getting a cash anatomy course in school.

“Oh.” I hadn’t known and hearing it from him felt… not like it did from Cal. I still wasn’t quite sure that was the problem.

Liam cleared his throat as he looked where I was standing.

“You like to read?”I asked hesitantly, trying to change the subject.

The books were good. They got us back to neutral waters.

Liam hummed.“I do.When I have the time.Work has kept me busy recently, orratherI'vebeen letting it.”

“Letting it?”

He nodded.“I needed to keep myself busy when the rest of the pack was gonefor a whileon their trips with the Prestford clan.Being here at the house, well, I tried not to be as much as possible.I only really came home to sleep before heading back to the university the next dayall over again.”

Being still, being somewhere comfortable was hard. It made you think a lot. I understood. Perhaps just as much as Liam.“Ididn’tlike to spenda lot oftime at home either. Plus, I had a lot of work at the library.”

Had.I was at least starting to use the past tense now.

“What’s wrong?” Liam asked.

“Just thinking,”I said.“I’mjust really not a librarian anymore.”

“No. You’re not.”

I was sure I knew what he wanted to say next. No. Iwasn’tsome librarian. I was an omega.“I’mnot much of anything anymore.”

I grit my teeth together.

But he didn’t say that. “Cal told me that you weren’t even happy with your job.”

“I was though. Mostly. Some days more than others,” I admitted. “You’re a professor? We didn’t get to talk about it when we were at the school in your office.”=

“Wedidn’t. Did we?”He said.“I work mainly with languages. Linguistics.”

“So you couldpretty muchmake a whole other language from scratch.”

Liam considered it thoughtfully. “I suppose it wouldn’t be outside the realm of possibility.”

“That would be cool.”

“Is it a goal you have?”

“No. I just figured it would be niceto finally have a way to explain all this…”I looked down at myself as if that explained everything.“Sometimes Idon’tthink the right words of what happened to exist to explain it.”

“That you’re an omega,” Liam assumed.

“Partially,” I admitted. “And… everything before that.”

It was like another world, the town and place where I came from. It almost feels like a bad dream. That, maybe, if I hit my head, I could pretend I had amnesiaandno one would be the wiser. The place sounded like a nightmare. It was.

To me anyway.

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