Page 106 of Shattered Omega

I plunged deeper, knowing I may never surface again, and the world around me changed. Sounds echoed from all over, deafening and dull all at once.

I was made of nothing but roiling instincts, fury and rage driving me on, and the sound I made was nothing but feral as I flared my aura again and the weight at my back was gone.

Moments ago, it had been a trap… a cage…

I turned, vision swimming, sharp knives slicing my mind as I forced the world into focus.

He was there in the centre of the bleeding crimson swamp at the edges of my vision, a huge alpha picking himself up, staggering, hand on his head. Dark hair, scar down his left cheek.

The one who’d taken her.

My prey, with a scent of ebony burning deep in a void.

A low growl rolled through my chest until I heard a cry. Something that blistered, dragging me up for a moment, up toward a surface still so far above.

I looked around wildly, trying to understand.

And I saw her.

She was picking herself up from the floor. The centre of the whole world, with eyes of molten gold that were fixed on me, wide with terror.

She was speaking—no. Shouting. I didn’t understand. The words scored my eardrums, while made of mist all at the same time. Tears streamed down her face as she reached for me, staggering forward.

Then she stopped, eyes darting to the side, breath catching.

That was all it took.

I flinched, snapping my gaze to the other alpha who was reaching for a gun only feet away.

My mind broke.

I lunged for him.

I was lost, but he would never have her.

We crashed to the floor, and my hands were at his throat.

Shatter…

My vision drowned in red, an ocean of nothingness coming to sweep me away.

I love you.

The alpha fought, but he didn’t stand a chance. Not when the price was her. Peace was a cold shock to my system.

She would be safe.

My Reaper.

Then, before the alpha broke beneath my fists, sickness ripped through the pack bond like a plague. A sickness that wasn’t mine.

Something had happened.

My… brother…

I heard her scream behind me as I watched my fingers slip. The alpha shoved me off, coughing for breath, his fist in my hair as he slammed my head to the ground.

The world went black.

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