Omega's Rebirth-Chapter 707: Strange Reality ()

"You can rest easy now... they’re all gone, Omega." He whispers to Neveah.

Neveah’s brows furrowed slightly. She dared another glance up to those familiar forest green orbs and Neveah was astonished to find what was reflected back at her were not the usual wrath and disdain,

Instead, they were emotions Neveah would have found too foreign to have ever been mustered by a man such as he was... two emotions stood out in particular, concern and remorse.

"He hurt you... again...one day, I will kill the bastard!" Alessio hissed in a pained tone.

Alessio reached for Neveah and on instinct, Neveah recoiled and she noted the flicker of hurt in his eyes, like her actions had physically hurt him.

"Forgive me, you know I had to play the part in order to calm our father’s wrath. It tears at my heart..." Alessio pleaded, his tone earnest.

Neveah blinked in astonishment, since the very moment she opened her eyes, nothing had felt right but at least nothing had been so much out of the ordinary, at least this was exactly what life in the Eclipse Domain looked like and there was comfort in that.

But the very moment Alessio had walked in, Neveah began to sense there was something wrong with this scene... something terribly wrong.

The silver whip lay idle by Alessio’s side, having fetched it the moment he had arrived, Neveah had diverted her gaze from him, intent on never letting him read into just how much pain he caused her when he began.

But what followed, what should have followed had never come. The whip had been retrieved but never used and the moment Lothaire had left, Lado soon followed, clearing out the dead omega and the whip had found a new resting place from Alessio’s grasp to the cold dungeon floor, abandoned.

Again, it had never been used... and that was not even the worst of it.

The first words Alessio had just said to her, were completely unlike anything Neveah could have ever expected, they sounded terrifyingly close to a reassurance, which was closely followed by an apology and the unfamiliarity of this stirred a chill of terror far more potent than the whip could have achieved.

"Will you let me take a look at it? Your wounds?" Alessio asked hopefully,

He did not reach for Neveah this time but seemed to be waiting on her permission and when Neveah just stared back with wide, horrified eyes, Alessio released a heavy sigh.

"Come, we should get you out of here and cleaned up. You must be numb and freezing." Alessio said,

His tone was pained as he pulled off his outer robe and draped it over Neveah’s shoulder,

He reached for Neveah again and though Neveah’s reaction was much the same, recoiling backwards, Alessio was not deterred and picked Neveah up into his arms.

Neveah froze up, her words were caught in her throat, held captive by the terror crawling through her veins but Neveah was quick to recover.

"Let me go...do not touch me!" Neveah hissed, struggling against Alessio’s hold. Alessio did not budge but instead held Neveah closer to himself.

"You can lash out at me once I get you to safety, I will take it all without a single word of complaint. It is nothing less than I deserve. But for now, you must let me take you out of these cursed dungeons..." Alessio said to Neveah before he passed a hand over her face,

A strange, herbal scent wafted from his sleeves, Neveah recognized it to be a muscle relaxant, and it effectively stilled Neveah’s struggles against her will.

"Do not fret, father will believe I have whipped you unconscious and had to carry you out, if you just stay quiet, he will not find it suspicious." Alessio reassured.

Neveah wished she could have done something other than stay quiet, she wished she could have lashed out and made for Alessio’s throat and see exactly how his father liked that result,

But after all the drug testing Alpha Queen Vilma had done, Alessio had gotten familiar with what drugs were effective on Neveah and what drugs weren’t.

He had chosen the muscle relaxant accurately and now Neveah was motionless.

Alessio held Neveah as he left the murky dungeons and then made his way out of the deserted palace halls into the back courtyard that would lead to the adjacent palace where Neveah’s quarters were. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

As he walked, his steps were slow, as though cautious not to jolt Neveah.

"It will all be over soon... I swear to you. I have begun making preparations, winning Alphas to my side...once I am King, my father will no longer dare to lay a hand on you."

"Once I am King, I will no longer be such a helpless man, unable to do anything but watch as my woman is hurt over and over again..."

"Once I am King, I will offer you his head...as a gift to My Queen. So please, do not hate me for my cowardice... just give me time... I will make everything right... for you, for us..." Alessio vowed to Neveah as he walked.

’What was this?’ Neveah fretted,

What exactly was happening? Neveah could not understand and she did not think there was any way to understand it.

Was this the same Alessio Terran Lothaire Neveah knew?... This was not him at all. No... this had to be someone else...

’There is something wrong with this world... this nightmare or whatever it is...’ Neveah realized.

Neveah also realized another point that had somehow escaped her notice all this while.

Within Neveah’s mind, where she could always count on a familiar, comforting presence,

In that space where a part of her rested, bound in life and death as two parts of one entity, different in many ways yet one and the same,

There was nothing to be seen or felt. All Neveah could feel within her was complete emptiness, like there had never been a space at all.

And that meant one horrible thing, in this strange, horrifying joke or whatever maddening manifestation of sorcery this was...

Her wolf...was gone...