DEA
“It’s already too late. You’re dead now!” This time, the omega’s voice is clearer in my head.
I blinked hard and the room disappeared as the forest rushed back into focus all at once. I was back in the present. The smell of damp earth. The cold night air. The ache in my knees where I’m still half-collapsed on the ground.
My lungs felt like broken glass when I sucked in air, my hands flying to my neck immediately to check. There was no blood. No torn flesh. Just my marked skin, whole and trembling beneath my fingers. That wolf, whoever that is, did not successfully bite me, right?
“What…” My voice cracked, gripping my racing heart. “What was that?”
“You humans are so fragile,” the omega said, clicking her tongue, and standing exactly where she was before, arms crossed now, with an
