Page 99 of The Omega Archives: Part Two

“Ella, wake up, little omega.”

Her eyes startled open, pausing before her bodywas wrackedwith heavy sobs.

“Sh. Shh.” I whispered. I was never the soft one. I was never the one to talk about feelings when something was wrong. I was the one you called in when action needed tobe takenandI’d do it. I’d do anything for the people I cared for.

And Ella was one of the people I care for now.

“You’re alright. Just a dream.” Only maybe it wasn’t. I couldn’t be sure, but I had a hunch. “Right now, I’m here. Take a deep breath and breathe in.”

“What happened?” Demetri asked, standing on the edge of the room.

Cal climbed over the mattress.I’d onlyeverseen Cal as another pack matebutover the past few days…

I listenedto the careful wayhe spoke to her as she squeezed her eyes shut. He was the strongest out of all of the entire pack.

All of us look at each other. There was only so much we could do. We didn’t know what our omega endured. We didn’tknowjust how deep these nightmares ran and what was still happening long aftershewoke up.

Expressions of broken sadness were writtenon all of our faces.

I held my omega in my arms, not letting her go.

“I think it’s time to tell us, little omega.” I swallowedbrushingmy hair away from my forehead. “You’re ready, aren’t you?”

God, I hoped she was.

Luckily, she nodded.

Chapter

Thirty-Two

DEMETRI

“You don’t have to tell us, if you don’t want to,” I made sure to let Ella know as I stood on the edge of Marko’s room. My heart was still pounding from waking up, hearing her scream.

There was nothing else I could do but rush to her. To help and find out what was wrong, immediately fearing the worst.

Then again, looking at her right now, my alpha insisted that there was nothing worse than an omega in front of us coated in her own tears and frightened.

She shook her head. “No. I… I think I need to tell you.”

When she met my eyes, her own glittered in the dim darkness of the room lit only by the yellow lamp next to the bed.

She seemed to wait until I spoke. “Okay.”

Cal nodded, moving towards her on the bed with the other two.

“Ididn’tknow my parents. All I knew was that they were betas who left us,”Ella began, letting out a deep breath that sounded likeit had been stuckinsideofher for a long time.

She reached up to brush aside the tears left behind from whatever nightmare she hadbeen stuckinside.

“They left you,” I helped her try to continue whatever train of thought she began.

Ella shook her head.“They died. Or something. Either way, it was just me and my brother, Peter. He was older. He took care of me. Until, one day, someone tried to take me away.”

My pack mates looked at each other.

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