Amelia
Pain throbbed through my wrist as I hurried away from the training grounds, my heart still racing from the encounter with Alpha Xavier.
His intense gaze had pierced right through me, detecting my lie with unsettling ease. Of course he would know, Alphas could sense deceit, especially from lowly Omegas like me.
"You're valuable to this pack," he had said.
Those words echoed in my mind. Valuable? No one had ever described me that way before. I was just an Omega, the lowest rank in werewolf society. Invisible at best, a burden at worst.
I flexed my bruised wrist, wincing at the purple marks forming where Henry and Palmer had grabbed me. It wasn't the first time he had targeted me, but it was the first time Alpha Xavier had noticed. The fury in his eyes when he'd seen my injury ha
