Why isn’t he here yet?
I almost ask, but a cold touch to my shoulder has me spinning around to find the Viscount standing right before me. His dark eyes burn into mine. “Hello again, Alina. Let’s go teach that Alpha of yours a lesson, shall we?”
CHAPTER FORTY
ORCUS
“Fuck.”I can feel Demeter all around Alina now, telling me she’s not only touching my Omega but also doing something to her.
Something deadly.
“Who is this bitch?” Reaper asks, a scythe in one hand and a sword in the other. “Tell us what we’re walking into here, Alpha.”
“She’s an Alpha,” I mutter. “A very possessive, pissed-off, insaneAlpha. One who fancies herself to be the mother of all Omegas. That’s why she acts as though she is one herself when she’s very clearly not. She sees it as her duty to protect all of Omega kind.”
“So she… won’t harm Alina?” Flame hedges.
“If Alina’s pregnant with an Alpha? Yeah, she’ll harm her. And she’s sure as fuck going to try to hurt me,” I tell them. “She doesn’t like competition, and she does not play well with other Alphas.”
As evidenced by the fact that she apparently brought all the Omegas to this dimension.And hid them.
I overheard that part of her conversation with Alina.
Fuck, I overheardeverything.
Because Alina was practically broadcasting the conversation to me as she puzzled over everything Demeter was telling her.
“She used to be part of an Alpha pack,” I say aloud, still talking to Reaper and Flame. “They had a male Omega that managed to impregnate her. An Omega named Persephone was their child. Demeter developed an… unhealthy obsession with her daughter.”
And from what I understood of the conversation, Serapina might harbor Persephone’s soul.
Which further complicates matters.
If there was time, I would call my brother. But I need to get Alina back right fucking now before Demeter finishes doing whatever it is she’s doing to my mate.
“Her focus is going to be on me,” I think aloud, puzzling through what we should do. “Her primary goal will be to subdue me.” Because killing me wouldn’t be an option. Just like I couldn’t kill her.
Mythos Fae don’t die.
But we can be temporarily knocked out.And trapped.
“She’s already weakened,” I go on. “Whatever happened when she touched Alina destroyed the Omega prison she created here.”
By here, I mean, the Viscount Manor.
Reaper and I were busy pursuing our own leads when we felt the bond snap into place again.
He immediately returned to the Elite City, where Flame and I were reading up on the Viscount. Cain was talking to the Duke of Nightingale about setting up a meeting.
Apparently, he lacked the contact details for the Viscount because he lived outside of the Elite City and wasclassified as a non-Elite human. It seems the village title means very little to the Elite City.
Regardless, the Viscount matters now.
Because he has a pissed-off Mythos Fae Alpha hiding inside him.
Hell, the Viscount may have always been Demeter. Who the fuck even knows?
“Did you catch any hints of Timothy being possessed?” I ask Reaper, wondering if perhaps Demeter is controlling him as well.
