The Omega’s Twisted Secret

CHAPTER3

THEIA

‘Is something the matter?” Alpha Arlen questioned, gauging my reaction to his introduction.

“N-No, nothing. I just didn’t know.” I shook my head, pushing my back against the headboard and hoping for it to open up and swallow me completely so I wouldn’t have to be in that situation.

“What’s your name?” He questioned.

“Theia,” I replied, my heart hammering beneath my chest in fear that he would ask about my rank and I would have to open my mouth and tell him that I was an Omega.

“Theia,” he repeated, practicing the name on his tongue. “I take it you’re originally from Silvercrest.”

I only nodded, now unable to find my voice. I was being suffocated by this very conversation.

“How come Draven made you a server at his party? Didn’t you protest? Did you volunteer?” He raised his brows.

“He would have killed us. I watched him murder someone who stood up for herself and didn’t want to do it,” I finally said after a long moment of silence.

“Draven isn’t the type to take no for an answer,” he sighed with an all too familiar tone, as if he had known Alpha Draven all his life and that the mere thought of him killing a person who stood up for herself was just Draven being Draven to him.

“Are your parents still alive?” He questioned, and I could tell that if we kept going the way we were going, he would eventually ask me what my rank was, and I would be forced to tell him.

“No,” I answered.

“Any guardian?”

I shook my head in response, trying to keep my answer as minimal as possible to bore him so that he would walk away and want nothing to do with my answers. Perhaps, he wouldn’t care about my rank now that I was his mate, right?

“Tell me about yourself, Theia.”

“There’s nothing to say, really.” I smiled. “My parents and I got into an incident. They died trying to save me, and I lost a large chunk of my memories after the incident. I’m really exhausted, is it okay if I go back to sleep?”

“Sure,” he answered, his eyes narrowed at me as if he knew that I was hiding something from him.

He got off the bed and took the empty water glass.

“Have some rest. I’ll go get busy. You can always leave the room if you want to.”

As he walked away, I sighed in relief, placing my hand over my heart and feeling the rapid beats of my heart against my ribcage.

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I walked out of the room later that day after taking a short nap. I found the living room and eventually made my way outside the house, where I found an open field some hundred meters away from the house, where people – adults and pups alike – ran around and had their fun.

I smiled and walked towards the field to see if I could introduce myself to anyone or simply sit and watch the people to see how their pack dynamic worked.

As soon as I got into the field, the people turned in my direction. Some of them waved at me, while the others turned to whoever they were with and started to discuss in whispers.

I sat on one of the empty chairs and watched the parents of pups cheer for their children as they ran in a makeshift race.

My body instinctively froze when my eyes scanned the crowd one more time and I found Alpha Arlen sitting on one of the seats in the middle of the crowd, staring at me with so much intensity that I was forced to look away as my cheeks heated up.

“You’re up,” he said as he stood up and approached me, taking the seat right beside me.

“I am,” I foolishly responded with a nod of my head.

“You know, something didn’t feel quite right earlier. You were exhausted and you did need the sleep, I know, but you were hiding something from me. You still are.”

Just when I thought my status wouldn’t be a topic of our conversation, it crept back into my life.

“I already told you everything. I told you about my parents and how they died. I answered all your questions, so I don’t…” I trailed off, looking down at my interlocked fingers. What was the use? Even I knew I was lying.

“When I left the room, I got in contact with Draven.”

My eyes widened for a split second, but I knew that he caught it since he had been staring at me the whole time to see how I would react – he had caught me.

I shifted uncomfortably in my seat.

“Yeah?” I nodded absent-mindedly.

“I told him you were with me. I told him that you were my mate.”

I swallowed the lump that was growing in my throat, but that only provided it with enough moisture to keep growing until I felt my throat tighten.

“I didn’t even need to ask him. As soon as he heard that you were my mate, he told me. He told me everything he knew about you. He told me the things and knew, and the one thing that you forgot to tell me. Or did you forget?”

I was no longer breathing, even though I wanted to.

“Theia.” This time, my name on his tongue didn’t sound like one I wanted to hear again. His tone was cold and dark. “Why didn’t you tell me that you were an Omega?”

“I’m sorry,” I immediately blurted, because there was nothing else to do but to apologize. He had caught me keeping a secret after knowing me for just two days – a secret that seemed to mean a lot to him, seeing as his eyes were holding quelled flames.

Even the people around us started to note the change in their Alpha’s demeanor, and some people started to leave.

“I didn’t want you to… I heard about how much you hate Omegas. I didn’t want—I’m sorry.”

“You will be taken to the Omega Packhouse, where you will stay with all the other Omegas in the pack and stay out of everyone else’s way,” he informed, causing my stomach to drop.

How was it so bad that the Omegas had to live in a separate Packhouse?

I stared at Alpha Arlen, searching for any sign of regret or remorse for his sentence, but there was nothing but alarm in them. He was no longer focused on me.

He stood up as swiftly as possible, looking around the field with narrowed eyes and balling his hands into fists. I could see the faint hairs on his hands stand as he yelled out:

“EVERYBODY, TAKE YOUR CHILDREN AND GO TO YOUR HOUSES!”

As soon as he gave his command, a wolf ran through the entrance and pounced on a pup who was still running in a race, tearing the pup apart.