Page 100 of Broken Omega

I push out of my seat and let myself go limp.

My eyes close as I fall, and someone catches me before I hit the ground.Ember.I hear her gasp lightly as she lowers me the rest of the way to the ground, being sweet and gentle with me.

I keep my muscles slack as I lay there, waiting for help to be called.

There’s a lot of talking and whispering and chairs moving, but Edith’s irritable growl rears above the other noises. I concentrate on staying limp as I hear her moving around the table.

Her footsteps are deliberate and slow, like most Alphas’.

I can feel her anger as she moves in close.

“She needs help,” Ember pleads at my other side.

“Brooke,darling, get up,” Edith says, ignoring my worried friend.

She sounds as pissed off as she feels.

“Is she okay?” Kellan asks, a second voice of concern at my right side.

“She’s not,” Ember tells him.

“I’ll call an ambulance,” he says, his decisive tone a pleasant surprise.

“There’s really no need. She’ll be fine in a moment,” Edith brushes him off.

It’s too late, bitch. You should know, when an Alpha makes a decision, he can’t be swayed.

I hear him making the call, and it takes every ounce of my control not to let my lips curve into a smile. I can feel Edith’s anger rising, and I can tell she’s about to do something, right before a short, sharp stab of pain burns through me.

She pinched my face!What a bitch!

The shock of feeling is hard to ignore, but I do it because I don’t have a choice.

“The ambulance should be here in a few,” Kellan says.

“Thanks,” Ember tells him.

I hear movement at my right before my head is moved gently by my friend, propped up under something soft. The sudden realization of the difference between the hard floor and the soft item kind of makes my body scream with the need to move.

I zone out of the conversations going on around me as I stay focused on keeping my body still.

I count out the minutes slowly in my head, waiting for the EMTs to get to me.

Eventually, the lack of stimulation and the counting combine to let me drift off to sleep.

I slip into dreams, hoping I wake in the back of a moving ambulance this time.

KELLAN

Despite the fact she’s the one who approved my application to visit Goldcrest, I’m not a fan of Edith Merritt. She seems to think Brooke is just being melodramatic. That burn looked painful. Even if she hadn’t fainted, I’d have insisted on calling for medical help.

At least the friend she seemed concerned about before immediately got worried when she passed out and rushed to her side to help. Seems like a nice girl. I’m glad Brooke has a good friend in the academy, one who looks out for her like this.

When the paramedics arrive, I’ve already decided I’m going with her to the hospital.

They start to do their job, and as soon as they see the burn, they’re ready to take her in.

“Absolutely not!” Edith explodes.

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