THE RISE OF A WORTHLESS OMEGA: Rescued By Three Alphas

jumps when Nova r

now... I was going

She nev

at me. You've got some nerve." She

on the sound before it escapes. 'Not my

mediately, draw

va's sharp voice cuts thro

I grit my teeth

to flip my face ninety degrees. My ears go numb, followed

right there, blocking my path

the space between us. "I don't need to touch you to make

t the hot

ks menacingly toward me, iron

ng us satisfaction." Nova brings

y, every muscle in

x chips in, grabb

and Rex grabs my other h

ng. Like she isn't scared. But she is." N

owed by the acrid smell of burning skin.

that satisfaction

Cry." Nov

do

skin with it. The pain is sharp and intense, stealing the air from

ooks at me like I am something sc

hetic."

er the years that it ends quickly when

. "I'm done for now." She announce "I'

en, but I refuse to let them touch me. Sh

lowed by Dax and Rex who release me li

ce immediately as the b

elf. 'Soon all of

Dax and Rex will no longer be

dying from poison in my arms. They told him that i killed her, and he believed them. But now, he no longer joins their daily ritual anymore or hits m

ve been burned by ho

rough my thoughts from downs

even had the chance to dress the wound properly and now

morning news like the rest of the world makes sense to them. Like th

mornings lazing about.

o,

ngs a flower vase

and shatters on impact. My vision shakes, dark patche

ill standin

o the k

oice wrapped in false concern like she can't hear herself.

she can afford to be lazy," my fath

instantly because the sound of

in five minutes," he shouts

One wrong measurement and I am finished. I spread jam over his bread without thinking, moving my ha

of my head. My arm throbs. But all I

d this is not the first time.

er. That I came into this world and took her out

e weight of a death I don't even understand,

ling from her lips while I held her in my arms. I s

s just as Nova sweeps in, fashionably dressed in a fancy pink dress,

tween my father and Mara lik

ion coming, Dad?" she asks, voice dipp

ming," he says. "Prepara

ately. "Important guests

im laugh all morning and it's only for her. I set t

e says in a low, c

an impatient child. "T

elf smile. "

ven I find myself holding still, listening.

n five territories, I'm sure you've heard of him. Zane Ardell of the Ardell Pack and

s in one of the most eligible Alphas in the te

allies, Nova. And tha

whelmed kind of tears that fall only when she wants s

as his Luna, it's an instant elevation. Not just

s already won. "I can

can catch it. A low sound. Someth

mist

ust noticed I'm in the room. His eyes move from my face to the bloo

you still

til everyone f

I'm something to be cleared away. "And clean that blood o

tairs. He says nothing. He doesn't move or look away either. His eyes hold mine for one f

ast him and h

-

eflection looks back at me - pale, hollow-eyed

n five territories, coming here, to this house. Maybe it's my salvation, or maybe it

ce I was small. My fingers run along the strap the way they always do without thinking and pause at something

nce, gently,

ell myself. 'Just s

g time, the words feel like som

the beginnin