Page 65 of Shattered Omega: Part Two

She was in her nest.

“I-I didn’t know what else to do. They wouldn’t let me in, but I know she’s with them. I think she’s in danger. You have to—” She cut off as Umbra shoved past her.

“Umbra!”He had to wait. He couldn’t go charging in there. Not with what had happened with Flynn. He’d nearly died.

But…

How?

I paused only a heartbeat to tear a key from my keychain and shove it into Roxy’s hand. “If you think they know you came to us, stay here,” I told her.

She nodded numbly.

Ransom was already halfway down the hallway after Umbra, but I caught up to them by the time they were down the stairs.

“Umbra!”I snarled, reaching him as he got to the Lincoln pack door. “You can’t?—!”

Just… he had to wait.Hecouldn’t be the one?—

“Don’t fucking tell me what I can’t fucking do!” he hissed, spinning on me. I hadn’t seen him this wild in years. “If they have her, I’ll kill them.”

“Wewill, but you need to back?—”

Before I could argue, Ransom flared his aura for a brief moment, and the experience was downright unnerving. He’d ripped the front door open before we could say another word.

Shit.

I exchanged a glance with Umbra, and then I was after him.

“Where is she?”Ransom’s furious growl ahead was met with a crash. Yells echoed around the apartment, and then a few betas and omegas were shoving past us, terror on their faces as we shoved into the room ahead.

Ransom was crossing the kitchen to a living room beyond.

I could see the Lincoln pack, but—where was Shatter?

“Ransom fucking Kingsman shows his face at last.” I recognised Flynn’s voice.

“Looking for your omega?” That was Eric. “Turns out she’s a little stalker freak. Been obsessed with us since—” He cut off.

Ransom—still not fully present even in the bond—honed in on Eric in a moment.

Before I could stop him, he was crossing the room, shoving Flynn out of the way. I felt a flash of dread, but nothing happened. Nothing like before, when Flynn had touched me.

Ransom’s aura exploded out, an invisible shockwave as he grabbed Eric’s shirt in his fist.

Eric and Gareth matched him, but both auras paled next to Ransom’s, and Eric barely had a chance to flinch before Ransom slammed him into the wall, crumbling the drywall to dust.

His aura was harrowing. Broken. Leaving silence in its wake.

Eric’s face was pale, his eyes wide.

“Where is she?”Ransom sounded more animal than human.

“Sh-she’s gone.”

“Where?”

“She r-ran out of the building.”

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