Page 178 of Broken Omega

We head to the police station.

BROOKE

Idon’t sleep. I lay down in the darkness of my old bedroom at the academy and it finally feels like this place has become what it always really was. My prison. The place where I’m trapped until an Alpha takes me as his mate.

If the rules were really that simple, I would be free right now. I have claimed mates, and at least one of them was academy approved. I’m a grown adult, and I’m having the decisions I made on my own denied by the one person who’s supposed to care about me more than anyone else.

My father doesn’t care about anyone but himself.

If he had a soul, or even a speck of empathy inside of him, he wouldn’t be able to do what he’s doing. Handing his only child off to a monster, to prove that he can force an Omega to do anything he wants, is the single most fucked-up thing I’ve ever heard of.

Anger swells up inside me every time I think of what he’s already had me do.

My returned memories only make me realize how much more heartless he is than I thought.

He made me sit in the dark basement with the lights out as a kid, the one place in the house that freaked me out. He turned me off certain foods with his conditioning bullshit, for no other reason than to prove he could.

But the worst part is, he gave commands to Geraldine to use on me when I got to the academy.

Some of the blackouts I had here were in the company of Alphas. Men I showed no interest in until Geraldine used her commands to change my demeanor. I let those men have whatever they wanted.

I remembered nothing, until my memories started to seep back.

Frost woke me up. He made me remember.

Lachlan Darvish wants me because he’s already had me. I just didn’t know it.

Some part of me wishes I still didn’t.

That’s the part that wants to stay curled up in a ball on the floor and never leave this room.

It’s not the kind of attitude that’s going to help me get out of this.

I stretch as I sit up, easing the aches and pains in my body from lying on the hard floor.

Getting to my feet, I continue stretching.

Once I’m done, I go drink some water and eat some fruit.

Taking care of myself is important. I didn’t used to think it was but coming so close to having the life I want, a life where I can be happy, changed something inside me. I know now there’s something better out there waiting for me.

All I need to do is fight for it.

I’m ready to do that.

DONNIE

The cops take our statements and the file, and honestly, it doesn’t look like they’re ready to do anything about it, until Kellan tells them it’s urgent due to our Omega’s life being in immediate danger. That’s when they assign us a detective and things start to feel like they’re heading somewhere constructive.

We’re put into an interrogation room and left there for a while.

Kellan looks ready to explode. He’s looked that way since we told him Frost stayed at Warren Corvina’s place, to make sure he doesn’t do a runner over the missing file.

I’m worried about Frost. I know he can take care of himself, but I’m not so sure he can be chill with the guy who’s been torturing our Omega her whole life. I want to see Brooke’s father go to jail tonight, not my first Alpha mate and best friend.

“It really feels like those cops think this is nothing,” Lana murmurs.

“Those cops were preoccupied,” River says. “Pretty sure we interrupted them talking fantasy football league transfers.”

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