The Omega Secret (Book Four of the Omega Game Series)

Chapter 11

Didoka

The North Islands

Present day…

It was hard not to stare.

The moment we walked inside the gigantic pools Kun took off his pants easily, not even bothering with the fact his hard c**k was pulsing and leaking, showing how ready it was to f**k me. I took a couple of steps back, gasping in surprise at the size and width of it. That had been inside of me? Now I understood why Nira had thought that Aros’s c**k wouldn’t fit inside of her. That...monster was inhumanly big! I hit a wall with my back and groaned at the cold bite of the ice against my naked skin. Kun looked over his shoulder then, lifting an eyebrow at me.

“Be careful,” he stated, a nerve in his jaw ticking while his hands twitched, as if to grab me. Which he didn’t. He turned around, walking to the beautiful, awe inspiring pools that seemed to have been created out of a piece of heaven. The ice walls looked softer in there, not as hardened as in the room or the long hall we had just crossed. There was a gigantic waterfall that catered water to the main pool and all the other adjacent little ponds. The water was bubbling, almost as if it were boiling, which didn’t make sense. Ice blocks separated each pool...how could so many temperatures coexist?

Curious I moved closer to the water and tipped my toes on the pool, marveling when I felt it was indeed hot. How could it be possible? The temperature had to be extremely low for a structure like this to stay upright. There could only be two possible explanations for this phenomenon. We were either in a warm environment but Kun constantly changed the structure of the water to keep it’s solidity. The second explanation parted from the fact that we were indeed in a cold place but Kun had pumped water from deep, deep underneath, where the earth was warm. What an incredible display of mathematical precision. Against my best wishes I had to recognize that whatever Kun had done was impressive.

“Come,” he growled then, stopping by the middle of the pool and offering me a hand. I looked carefully between his hand and the deep waters separating us. The surface looked indigo blue, which meant I couldn’t calculate how deep this pool really was. I was a good swimmer but I’d always known exactly where I was submerging before throwing myself to the water. Kun’s grey eyes focused on my face, analyzing all the emotions he could easily read in them after knowing me for so long and then he hooked his fingers, ordering me to move closer, “I don’t like repeating myself, little Omega.”

I scowled at the indigo waters, displacing my irritation to the pool, before taking a faltering step in Kun’s direction. It happened at once. The moment I touched the water I felt it moving fast around me. A whirl of water! I’d always heard sailors speaking about how dangerous the twists of the water could be in the open sea, but this wasn’t dangerous at all. It didn’t even touch me. The water moved under its master’s volition, taking me to him delicately until I was in his arms. 

I gasped when I felt how warm he was. I hadn’t realized I was cold until Kun touched me, making my body sag tiredly against his, searching his warmth unconsciously. He sat then, right there on top of the water and placed me on his legs like a misbehaving child. My back to his front and my legs extended in front of me. In silence he started washing me with his hands, covering my body with warm water that moved over my flesh like fingers. It was the weirdest bath I’d ever received. Even stranger was the fact that white foam held us up, above the surface of the pool, like a chair made out of sparkling water. Kun poured more water over my head and then started combing my hair with his fingers. It took a while to get used to his power. I’d seen him using it before, but not so excessively like this. 

“I could take a bath on my own,” I reminded him, trying to keep my back pulled taut and away from him. Kun moved one of his large hands between my legs then, washing my folds softly, almost carefully. Even with all of his care I felt a pang of pain and winced. My s*x hurt badly after being so abused for two straight days. And to top that he had taken my virginity. Of course I was in pain.

 Kun stopped at once, making me look at him over my shoulder. In silence he focused his eyes on a couple of bottles that had been placed in a near pond. With a flicker of a finger a current of water raised slowly, curling around one of the bottles and bringing it back to its master.  Kun made his waters move the bottle and poured in his hands a lavender scented oil. Once a large amount had pooled in his hand he turned around, spreading the oil all over my folds and massaging it gently. My eyes closed in awe. That was...beyond sensual, beyond amazing and beyond cruel. I was caving in, enjoying this and there was nothing I could do to hide it away from him. My n*****s had tightened, my middle was tense and my back had slowly moved back, accepting his silent embrace.

“You could,” said Kun in my ear, referring to my previous statement that I could bathe alone, “but you won't. I enjoy bathing you. I will do this for you from now on.”

“Why?” I asked him, genuinely curious. Why would a crowned prince want to bathe me? I could do this on my own. More importantly, I wanted to do this on my own. He hated me. I’d lied to him and made him feel terrible pain for weeks. I would have expected a grand act of revenge like humiliating me and taking my virginity. But, bathing me? That was a random method of punishment. One that I was enjoying...I tensed, my back again turning rigid. I watched him run his cordoned hands over my arms, lathering me in oil while I worried my lip. Finally I sighed, shaking my head at him, “It’s not going to work, you know?”

“You don’t know what you are talking about,” he said slowly, now lathering my heavy hair. I rolled my eyes, turning around and facing him head on. Kun only blinked, tilting his head to a side, studying me with predatory eyes.

“You are trying to condition my body into accepting you like my Alpha,” I explained, knowing that I was right. Knowing that this was the perfect revenge that a strategist like Kun could have schemed. I shook my head, drops of water flying everywhere while I watched him angrily, “Tending me during my Heat. Bathing me. I would guess your next step would be feeding me and purring for me. Giving me all the things that my body craves from you. And then what Kun? Then what? Do you really think I will bite you? Claim you like my mate?”

The corner of his eyes crinkled as if he found me amusing, “Would that option really be that appalling to you?”

“Whatever happened between us only happened because of my Heat, surely you know that,” I snapped back at him and Kun gave me a one shoulder shrug.

“That might be the case,” he conceded, “or not, we will never know. It pleased me that I could take care of you like I did. That I was your first one.”

His words seemed to hang between us like an abyss of meaning. He was right, I gave him that. My virginity had been taken from me and my innocence with it. I knew he had his reasons to take even that from me and I couldn’t trust him with the knowledge of understanding how much work I had invested in saving myself for someone special. Numerous generals had offered to tend me during my Heats and I’d always declined. I thought that I would only share my Heat with my mate. That it would be him and no other...how wrong I’d been. Not all was lost either way. He had been my first but that didn’t mean he would be my last. Not if I had any saying in the matter.

“Don’t make it into a bigger thing than what it was,” I said right away, not letting him dwell on the entire subject of me losing my virginity with him. If I let him press too much into it I would need to analyze everything that had happened between us and I was already too busy trying to find a way out of this entire situation. I moved closer, staring him in the eyes, “It was just an Omega and an Alpha spending a Heat together. Nothing more.”

“You don’t need to convince me that is the case,” he said, moving then and trapping my hips with hands that were iron hard. Kun moved me around until I was straddling him and I had to support myself in his shoulders to not crash into his wide chest. He cupped my face, his eyes moving back and forward while he looked into mine, “You, on the other hand, need to convince yourself a lot better than that. The only way you can win against me is if you learn to know yourself a little better, princess Aldidokala.”

I flinched at the use of my whole name. He was using it like a knife, playing with the still open wound bleeding between us. I saw the certainty in his eyes and paused, watching him now carefully. 

“What are you trying to say?” I asked him, my eyes narrowing.

“You have no idea, don’t you?” he asked, caressing the hollow of my cheek with a thumb, “You really don’t remember anything from your Heat?”

I shook my head, eyebrows frowning. I had never been able to remember what I’ve done during my Heats. Katala and Nira had mentioned they were able to remember some images, fragmented memories and sounds. I had never been that lucky, which meant my Omega Instinct was completely in control whenever I was in Heat. Kun smirked, shaking his head at me.

“I’m not conditioning you. I’m not trying to gain any favors from you. I don’t need that,” with a smile set to break my heart Kun lifted his head, showing me a double scar below his mandible. The size and the marks...No...no, no, no...It couldn’t be...With a trembling hand I caressed the wound, touching the already healing scabs.

“Did I...Did I start the bond?” I asked in a shaky voice that I couldn’t even recognize like my own.

Usually Omegas were the only ones capable of starting a bond, Alphas could only seal them. It took some time for an Omega to grow comfortably enough with an Alpha before accepting him like his mate. In some cases it took years for an Omega Instinct to mark the Alpha and by then several Heats had passed in which the Alpha had proved himself to be capable of serving the Omega well. What I’ve done was beyond humiliating. Beyond reckless. I’ve lost my only bargaining tool during my very first Heat. I couldn’t understand what my Omega Instinct had been thinking...I swallowed nervously when another oppressive thought crossed my mind.

“Did you...did you…?”

“Accepted the claim? No, I didn’t,” said Kun, moving his head down slowly and following me attentively with his eyes, gauging my expressions avidly. Somehow his response was only making me feel worse, which spoke volumes about how uncontrolled my emotions were. Never, not even once in the history of Omegas and Alphas mating, had an Alpha declined a bond. It made me feel sick, wrong, not right. Was it something I’ve done wrong? Was this Kun’s punishment? No, no...it was a blessing. Yes, I had to think about this matter in a cold way. There was nothing wrong with me. Kun had only been logical while I’d been half crazy during my Heat. He hadn’t closed the mating bond because this was pure business between us, nothing more.

I took a deep breath and nodded, now more in control.

“It’s a good thing you didn’t close the bond,” I said slowly, accepting this, letting it be. I couldn’t do anything about what had happened, but I could face this with maturity. I nodded again, searching his eyes and holding his severe stare, “There is no need for me to stay in here any longer. You have taken enough from me and you have punished me enough. Let’s call it even, Kun. Please return me to the palace.”

“The palace?” he asked curiously, his pupils contracting in interest, “Not home? Strange choice of words.”

“Kun, I don’t want to talk about this anymore,” I evaded, looking away, “Can you please take me back to Kotani now?”

“All in due time,” he evaded as well, kissing the top of my head and getting on his feet with me in his arms, “I will feed you now and then we will talk.”

Little by little I was starting to understand the obvious. The Kun I’d known was gone. This Alpha wasn’t asking around, nor taking my voice into consideration at all. He had a plan for me and until I could decipher his intentions I wasn’t invited to the game. All I could do now was wait and observe. The rest would have to come after.