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“Really. What on earth is she thinking? She gets out of those walls and all of a sudden she’s chasing down thrilling adventures? Did I ever know her?”
She’s totally talking to herself, and it’s completely adorable. I smile and find Colter doing the same thing.
“Be careful!” She yells back. Quieter, she adds, “Though if you were to permanently maim yourself, maybe Great Mother would grant me a new companion…”
She sounds almost…excited by the thought of this woman becoming injured? What the hell? She’s cutthroat.
“No. You are an awful companion, Calai. You can’t just quietly hope for her demise willy-nilly. Maybe she deserves to get hurt because of what she did to you, but you don’t actually want her to get hurt. You’d feel bad. Probably.”
The omega bites her thumb and runs her hand through her hair, as if nervous.
“I’ll be fine! You should see the view from up here- it’s incredible! I feel as if I’m on top of the world!” The crazed woman calls out a few times just to hear the echo, laughing at the way it sounds. She’s definitely a beta, and hardly appealing. I’m two seconds away from demanding to know what this woman did to my omega to make her angry, because I will for sure make the beta pay for hurting her. Even if I was planning on maiming the wretch anyway for touching our omega.
“I’m sure you do,” the funny creature says to herself. This must be a habit of hers, conversing with herself, and I think I find it…endearing.
“How worried should I be?” She continues to ask herself. “It’s pretty unlikely she’ll jump to her peril, right? Right. You’re just worried because you’ve not seen anyone jump like this before. But that water looks perfectly capable of letting her land safely.”
Our omega gets up and stiffens, peering behind her as if she senses us, but we all butbathedin scent neutralizer and we’re hardly even daring to breathe, so nothing we did could have given us away. She narrows her eyes and looks around before shaking her head and dismissing whatever she thought was over here.
“Must you jump?” She calls to her friend. “Eln, you worry me! Just come back down here and I’ll swim with you.”
“You swim, I’ll meet you! I’m going to fly, love!”
We watch in slow motion as she makes a running jump, her foot slipping at the very last second so that instead of clearing the rock, she slams headfirst into the side of it. The crunch that reverberates echoes just like her voice did moments before, and I don’t have to see the blood to know that it was a fatal shot.
Her lifeless body tumbles into the water, a loud slapping sound resonating as it hits almost perfectly parallel. She doesn’t stir again, her body now slowly sinking under the water. It’s not until she’s completely submerged that our omega begins to scream, putting us into action. Colter runs and jumps into the water, going after the body, while I wrap my arms around the thrashing omega, trying to quiet her and keep her from raising any sort of alarm.
She screams anew as my arms wrap around her, and I can’t say I blame her. She didn’t know we were here, had no expectation of being grabbed this way, but I really need her to stay quiet, so she doesn’t bring the cavalry down on us.
“Shhh, it’s okay little omega. Colter is going to retrieve her. Just calm yourself.”
She fucking bites my hand, which obviously just turns me on more. I groan into her hair and run on instinct alone as I push my hard on into the softness of her ass, seeking friction.
I pull her into the woods, my arms easily containing the way she fights me, while thinking her efforts are cute. She tries to escape me at every heartbeat, but now that I’ve got her, I don’t plan on letting her go. Ever.
“It’s okay. You’re safe. Calm down, omega. We’ll only hurt you if you ask us to,” I say with heavy innuendo.
She spits my hand out of her mouth with pure fury. “My name is Calai, not omega!”
I chuckle, which sets her off again.
“Who are you? Let me go! I need to get back to her! She needs me!”
She gives one last, valiant effort to kick out of my grip before she just hangs limp, apparently exhausted from her efforts. I relax my grip on her, stupidly, because she uses that to duck out of my hold and sprint towards where Colter is laying her friend’s body on the ground, blood absolutely everywhere.
Calai chokes back a sob, and I can see that nothing will make her stop fighting until she sees with her own eyes that her companion’s life force has been snuffed.
The beta lies there, the side of her head caved in from the impact. Her arms are all scraped and bleeding as well from her body sliding down the jagged rockface.
“No, no, no, no. This can’t be happening. You were just supposed to jump into the water, and we’d be having fun right now! How could you do this to me?!” She presses her face to the abdomen of the body, trying to hold her. She’s getting blood all over her as she pets the friend, smoothing her hair, but the way our omega is crying has even my heart hurting. Seeing her in pain is too much for me.
“I’m sorry, Calai. I can tell she meant a lot to you.”
I suddenly feel a bit bad about silently cursing this companion, because I would spare my mate from any sort of heartbreak if possible.
“What do I do? What do I do? No!” She keeps sobbing anew, wailing. I pull her away from the body as Colter retrieves a handful of lake water to rinse over our woman’s hands, trying to cleanse the blood off of her. It’s not very effective, but it’s better than nothing.
I sit back and turn away from the body so it’ll be out of our line of sight, planting Calai on my lap and rubbing her back. She screamed awfully loud, and I have no doubt that someone will be coming soon to investigate, which means we’re working on a very short timeframe now. The countdown is on.
