Aalyan
He’d slept and woken again but he still felt like he was dreaming. It wasn’t a bad dream, exactly, Ghian was with him and Milthu was okay. But the future seemed to be rushing towards him like a cascade and he couldn’t see a way out.
Jave had attacked him, to which Milthu could attest—not that Aalyan could have lied to any elders about it. He’d never heard of an alpha being violent towards an omega. Alphas got rough with each other all the time, sometimes with betas if they felt they were getting uppity, but even the way his brother had got on his face back with their mother had shocked Aalyan.
What had happened in the forest seemed so absurd as to be utterly impossible.
But even without Milthu’s desolate crying, he'd known it’d happened.
And he knew there would be a serious pri
