Page 67 of The Omega Archives: Part Three

“Okay.”

“Okay.” Leaning in, Lucas kissed me on the cheek. It felt so sudden and so chaste, that I giggled. “I plan on coming back for more. Get some good sleep ok. We’ll figure this out. I promise.”

I shut the door and shut my eyes for a second now back inside the room. My head felt so full.

“So that’s one crisis averted for now,” Lidya said. I opened my eyes to find her looking at me across the room. “I take it that tonight didn’t go as well as you mentioned?”

I shook my head. “Worse than well.”

I told her everything.

“So I also take it that you really wouldn’t accept my alpha to bond to if worse comes to worst?”

I shook my head at her again, letting out a deep breath. “It was never an option. I wouldn’t do that to you or your alphas. Ever.”

She sighed. “And here I was just getting used to the idea of having an omega partner in crime for the rest of my life.”

I gave a watery chuckle. “Is it too late to run and try to start a new life again?”

Lidya pursed her lips. At that, she did look slightly sad.

Maybe she regretted stopping me all those nights ago when I first arrived, thinking that I could’ve done better. And now, we’ve committed to worse unless something, anything could change it.

“Afraid so.”

Chapter

Twenty-One

ELLA

Ithought I had more time before Benjamin came back to the academy after the last event that I could tell in his and everyone else’s eyes, didn’t go the best.

At least, I hoped that I had more time to contemplate or fully accept that I was wrong about everything and any backup hopeful plan I had was over.

The only alpha now I could say that wasn’t screwing me completely over was Lucas, and even he wasn’t quite sure what to do beyond what I already knew.

I needed to get out of here.

The Prestford pack wasn’t coming for me. Yet another set of alphas proving me right all this time. They weren’t coming for me. And the way Demetri looked at me before looking over the rest of the omegas like he could hardly even notice me at all?

It felt like a knife was slid straight between my ribs.

Of course, unfortunately, it turned out that with courting, there had to be actual… courting involved beyond the events.

Benjamin Davinson was at the top of my list of potential suitors who had to follow through with his required dates to be properly seen as an alpha in the running for my hand orwhatever they wanted to call it as if I had a choice one way or the other.

Who’d have thought?

Even Jessica standing across the room from me after the headmistress went to get Alpha Davinson looked a bit confused by the situation considering my reaction the other night and how Alpha Anderson appeared to be interested in me before he got wind of Benjamin.

Benjamin pushed open the door and stood for a moment. It took me that long to realize that I should be standing too.

I walked towards him. Jessica followed.

Benjamin glanced over his shoulder. “You’ll be accompanying us.”

“That’s correct.”

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