Page 304 of Omega for the Pack

Darkness shrouded my vision, and my breathing escalated.

Closing my eyes, I absorbed everything she was feeling. Images of dead omega skeletons in a cave pierced through my mind’s eye. Omegas screamed for their lives as he clawed them to death. An image of Caleb on the ground, holding his dead wife in his hands, and a cackle sounded deep in my mind.

Argon was enjoying this.

Flooding my mind with images of the tortured and dead omegas.

“Jade, Jade!” I could hear the alphas shouting. They sounded far away, muffled like an underwater chorus.

My hand on her forehead felt like it was glued to her as pressure surrounded us, keeping us under his control.

“Leave her,” I commanded the presence, trying to snap back into reality. Instead, the images in my brain whirled faster and faster until I could barely breathe. “Leave us alone! Leave her. You’re not welcome here!”

My heart was racing, and my palms clammy as I fought for my life and her life.

“She has a debt to pay,” Argon snickered. I shook my head wildly, and Caleb’s mother screamed with some invisible pain he inflicted.

“She doesn’t owe you anything.”

“I made a promise to him that if he helped us, I owed him,” said Zaneesha.

What?

“Get out of her mind,” I shouted, pressing my hand tighter on her forehead, projecting strength into her. “Think of your happiest moment. Don’t pay attention to what he’s throwing at you. Please Zaneesha. Come back.”

“I can’t,” she groaned. I opened my eyes and stared deep into her struggling face. Her pupils were dilated, and she looked ready to collapse.

“Don’t listen to him,” I shouted. “He’s nothing. He’s weak and powerless.”

“No, he’s right. I deserve it,” she said, trembling all over. “I had a premonition that he would be evil, yet I brought him back to life.”

“And heisevil,” I said, even though I felt sick.

“I should let him take me,” she said, shuddering.

“This is what you deserve,” whispered the male voice into our minds.

“Don’t let it control you,” I shouted over his voice.

Tears rolled down her face as she scrunched her eyebrows in pain.

I heard an invisible male shriek in the air as Zaneesha’s eyes opened wider, focused on me. Concentrating with all her strength.

“Leave me alone,” she whispered, with barely any force in her words. When his hold began to diminish, her next command was stronger. “Leave Argon!”

Suddenly, I felt the invisible force burst around us. The heavy feeling over my body disappeared, and a calm, tranquil feeling fell over me. I took deep calming breaths, slowly removing my hand from her forehead. Zaneesha sat up from the ground, also regaining her breath.

“It’s gone. Do you feel that?” I asked her, smiling as I laid a hand on her forearm.

“It is,” she said, her voice trembling. Tears flowed down her face as she hugged my sheet-covered body. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”

“It’s okay. I understand why you did it,” I said. “He’s way too powerful.”

“Thank you,” she gasped out, touching my face. “I don’t know how Caleb found someone like you. Your inner strength and soft heart saved us both. You didn’t need to save me, and I am indebted to you.”

She turned to Caleb who was sitting quietly watching us, and hugged him next. I pulled the sheets tighter around me, hunched in pain.

“Are you okay?” asked Bruce, who I didn’t notice was beside me the entire time.

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