Page 86 of The Omega Archives: Part Three

Where did he go?

I gasped for air. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t. I didn’t want to.

“Stay with me,” my voice shook if any actual words came out at all. "Lucas!"

Lucas said nothing.

He was nothing. He was gone.

Gone.

I was all alone. My mate. My match. My… my…

Nothing.

Not a whine, but a wail escaped me.

“Dear lord, pick her up,” Benjamin scowled, waving at his father’s friends.

“NO!” I screamed as they reached for my arms. “No no.”

They couldn’t take me away from him. I couldn’t let them take me away from him. I was meant to stay here. I was meant to be with him.

I couldn’t see through the mess of my tears as I reached out, slamming my arms against everyone and everything. My nails caught on something and there was a slickness on my hands.

“She’s fucking feral.”

“Just get her in the car,” shouted Benjamin at everyone again until suddenly he was pulling me against him and into the vehicle that came around. “I told you what would happen if you misbehaved.Why don’t you get it yet?”

His voice was shrill in my ear before he shouted for someone to drive.

Being in the car during heat felt like agony. The air was stale and the men holding me down were painful as I screamed.

Lucas… Lucas was gone.

Dead.

My heart pounded rapidly while the rest of me ached until it was all I could feel and see in a swirl of painful reds and angry yellows and oranges around me like a sunset I wish would set once and for all and take me with it.

It was as if I wasn’t even there anymore as I was finally yanked from the car and into the home I vaguely remembered from my one visit with Benjamin.

“See?” he asked, though I couldn’t bear to pay attention as he pulled me down the hall. The men who had come with us remained behind, snickering.

My feet tripped over one another and I fell to the ground. My knees scraped against rough carpet and hardwood floors as we made our way past the den and living spaces, heading deeper into the large, cold mansion. The walls were too high and arched over me like shadows looming.

My chest shook as I whimpered.

Benjamin paid my noises no attention until we came across a room at the far end of the hall. There was a lock on the door. Outside. He easily shoved the doors over and pushed me in.

Inside was a large four-poster bed. The place was opulent and beige and had minimal furnishings. Other than the bed.

“This is your room. Do you understand your place yet, omega?” Benjamin asked me, though I was certain he was talking to himself as I swayed.

I couldn’t breathe let alone talk right now as my stomach cramped, sending me over into a crouch the moment Benjamin let go of his tight grip on my arm. This was it. It was all over. Lucas was gone.

He was gone.

Everyone I loved.

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