The Omega Fire (Book Three of the Omega Game Series)

Chapter 7

Aros

The Town of Nack

Present Day

    She was tiny. 

    For an Omega she was small, even smaller than my own mother and that was a woman that I still wondered how the hell had been able to birth six true Alphas. At times I forgot how small Nira was. She always seemed taller when she was fighting me. And I was sure her wild, red hair made her look two inches taller than what she really was. But the truth was... she was small. And delicate. A true Omega, even if she detested being one.

    Nira had always been thin and bony but about three years ago, around summer time, I caught sight of her, swimming by her private pools, and I was lust stricken. I learned that day that my Omega wasn’t the thin, little thing I always thought she was. Nira hadn’t seen me and technically I shouldn’t have been spying on her but I hadn’t been able to stop myself. I was on my way to meet Aunt Valnis when I heard her singing. Her voice was the most beckoning melody I’ve heard and the next thing I knew was that I had jumped three walls and ran through the roof of the Naccara palace to see her. 

    I crouched behind long columns and studied her while she swam around her pool, dressed only in her white undergarments. I already thought she was the most perfect creation of them all. I knew that since the first time I’d seen her, but that day I understood that I would never be able to forget how much I wanted her. She had only been fifteen. I thought myself a monster for not going away and not respecting her privacy, but I couldn’t move a limb. I’ve wanted her for as long as I remembered and I had denied her to myself. I’d bedded thousands of other women by then, imagining it was her who I was kissing every single time. So I thought: I want to be selfish only once. Only once I will look at her and then I will leave her alone.

    I’d stayed there watching her until she grew tired and walked slowly up the steps of the pool. Her long red hair was wet and fell long and thick at her back. She had the palest skin I’d ever seen, almost translucent white and unblemished. And when she stopped and looked back in my direction the sun brightened her body from the back and I saw the outline of her silhouette. The child I’ve known was long gone. In her place was a full grown woman with a body that had made my fire explode and burn for her.

    Every single woman I’d bedded since then had been Nira in my mind. I’d even been stupid enough a time or two and her name had slipped through my lips while I kissed another, imagining it was her. Only Her. Always her. 

    And now there she was. My Omega. My Nira. As in a dream I saw her push my arms away and then she hugged me, hiding her lovely face against my abs and then squeezing me in a hug that took my breath away. She had never looked for protection like this. Not even from her father. I’ve observed her for years and Nira was never one to admit weakness. For her to come to me like this could only mean that at some level...a very basic and emerging level, she was starting to see me like her Alpha. 

    Gently I cupped the back of her head and moved my other hand as if to kill the spider but Nira pulled at my shirt and shook her head. The movement was almost childish but her hair moved and I caught a whiff of her Omega scent. My Alpha Instinct raised its ears in attention. My entire body tensed. The God Inside of me opened his fiery eyes and looked down at her in devotion. Her scent was...by the skies...it was mouthwatering. Tempting. Tantalizing. Sweet like sugar and decadent, like that of a perfumed flower that enticed you to pick her up and own her. Nira groaned and shook her head again. This time her scent was more than I could handle. I grew harder and harder, to the point my c**k was a stiff rock, pulsing between us.

    “Don’t kill it...please,” she whispered and I frowned, softly caressing the back of her head. She wasn’t one to ask for things either. Nira demanded things. That word...please...that was the first time I’ve ever heard her using it. Like a cat she relaxed under my caress and her shoulders started to lower.

    “I thought you were afraid of the spider,” I said while taking the small insect in my fingers and lifting it up the windowsill, an arm away from me and far away enough from Nira to see it. 

    “If people decided to kill all the things they were afraid of, this would be a horrible world to live in,” she countered, still hugging me hard. I contemplated the idea of letting her know I’d put the spider away but the thought died as soon as it was born. She belonged in my arms and I was petty enough to use any excuse to keep her close to me. Nira kept talking while I pet her, “I don’t want it to die. It doesn’t deserve to die only because I’m afraid of it.”

    “Don’t worry. I’m not going to kill it,” I frowned when the stupid spider tried to descend from the window again and rolling my eyes I took Nira in my arms and started walking away. She weighed nothing, but her shape molded perfectly to me. A smile stretched my lips when I felt her get comfortable against me.

    “Where are you taking me?” she demanded to know while holding tight to my shoulders and unconsciously caressing my back. I felt her caress all the way down to my bones. I’d been hard before but now I was pulsing with need. I grinded my teeth and tried to focus on the task ahead.

    “To our camp. We got the information we wanted and the others left,” technically I wasn’t lying. We had gathered enough information to know who we needed to contact to take us to the Yellow Islands. The others were going to leave sooner or later after that so technically they were leaving and I wasn’t in the mood to share my Omega with them. Not right then, when for the first time Nira was letting me hold her.

    “This is ridiculous. I can walk, Aros!” that she could. And her ass looked amazing whenever she walked ahead of me. It was a bittersweet decision for me to let her walk in the front. A fight between checking her out and controlling my Instinct from hunting her down and biting her for daring to walk away from me. It was for the best to carry her like that. 

    “Nonsense, it’s dark out here, you could get hurt,” Nira pushed her head up and looked around us. Her light blue eyes were pale, almost white when she looked straight at the sun. Tonight they looked strangely shiny, like stars, staring at me with a new curiosity that hadn’t been there before.

    She squinted at me and then sighed, “Let’s hear it.”

    “What?” I asked her, genuinely confused.

    “Oh, stop playing stupid Aros. Just tell me what you want!'' She looked cute when she was mad. I had a tendency to do supid things she hated just to see her getting all cute and angry at me like she was right then. I shrugged and looked back to the road, my eyes scanning the dark trail that led to our hidden camp.

    “You need to be more specific Nira,” my Omega groaned and the sound made my c**k pulse again, this time turning so hard that it was painfully straining against my trousers.

    “I begged first, so you can ask me for something in return now,” she said, curling her pink lips up in a snarl, “I don’t like to feel like I owe anything to anyone. And specifically I hate owing you. Let’s make it even, should we?”

    “I will hold on to my favor and ask you later for it,” Nira shook her head at that, her wild red hair moving like flames around us. 

    “No. No and no. You need to tell me now. What do you want in return for dealing with that spider like I asked you?” I glanced down and sure enough Nira was staring up, her beautiful face perfectly pale, with those huge lips opened in the middle while she waited for my answer. I looked away and squinted, trying not to think about the constant pain straining my pants.

    “I don’t ask for favors. I never do, so you don’t need to worry about that,” Nira pinched her chin, mulling my answer.

    “What will you ask from me then?”

    “A nod,” at that she softly rested her weight in her hands over my shoulders and craned her neck up. I looked down and right then I stopped walking. I stood there, staring at her lips and considering all the ways I could kiss her. I’ve dreamed about kissing Nira a thousand times and now the opportunity was right there.  She gently pushed her shoulders back, unconsciously presenting her chest for me and I forgot I had the ability of talking and thinking. 

    “You want a nod?” she asked me with a suspicious frown in her beautiful face. I was doing my best to not look down at her chest right then and there so I nodded and grunted a sound for an answer. Nira snorted and rolled her eyes at me, “What kind of person asks for a nod?”

    A growl escaped from my mouth and Nira gasped, staring at me with widened eyes.

    “And why are you mad at me? It was an honest question. Anyway, if that’s what you want then you got it. When should I expect you would ask for this nod? I’m warning you, I’m not nodding my head to stupid questions like if I want to eat fried insects or drink cactus juice again. That stuff made my head hurt for a week. So, tell me, what do you want so bad and when do you want it?” she blinked expectantly while I studied her face in silence.

    I could tell her what I wanted. What I’ve always wanted. I could tell her that for days now her scent had changed and it was sweeter than before. That I knew her Heat was close. That I wanted to take care of her through it. That last night Kun had to restrain me when I woke up in the middle of the night and crossed the camp crazy and with my c**k hard because I was entering my rut for her. That I needed her. That above everything else I wanted Nira to bite me and let me claim her in return. That she was my Omega and that I was losing my damn mind every day that passed thinking about all the things I wanted to do to her.

    In the end I only kept walking and didn’t answer her question.

    “I must say Mongrel, you have a way with words,” she taunted me for my silence but I only shook my head and let her provocation miss the target. She sighed, drumming her small fingers over my shoulder before resting her head over my chest and softly shaking her head at me, “You are not fun when you don’t fight me Aros.”

    I didn’t answer that either. My c**k was bobbing and pulsing with need for the Omega in my arms and I couldn’t break my focus. If I did, I would end up rutting her like a wild beast at the side of the road and I would make her feel so good that she would hate herself even more than she would hate me afterwards. I clenched my jaw and forced myself to keep walking. It seemed that Kun would have another busy night ahead of him trying to restrain me down.