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I lunged forward, snapping that last fragile thing I had left: the piece of me that was a bonded omega. The world was red, the shattered glass clutched in my fist. I was being ripped in two, the bite on my neck pure agony, my veins on fire.
I didn’t care.
Screaming rang through the air. It was a desperate sound tearing from my own lungs. Strong arms grabbed me, tossing me easily to the ground, and the world went black for a moment, pain splitting my back.
I blinked, breathing ragged.
I was on the floor.
The glass was scattered around me. I was shaking beneath the agony of the dark bond, a thousand knives across my skin.
But all I could see was Drake, the fear in his eyes when he’d looked at the pack—and how he’d confronted them for me, anyway.
They’d… hurt him.
The world came into a blurry focus. Zeus was helping a furious Triton to his feet.
I sobbed in despair.
He was alive.
I’d just splintered into a thousand pieces, and he was still alive.
I’d smashed the glass against the bedside table and lunged for him. Then… then Zeus had kicked me into the wall… I thought.
“—Little gold pack bitch!” I could hear Triton’s fury.
I hope he killed me.
He couldn’t…
He wasn’t a rogue, and I was his bonded omega…
“Enough!” Above me, Zeus was between me and Triton, blocking him. “Go get cleaned up you fucking idiot.”
Blood trailed down Triton’s chest, a nasty, gaping wound below his clavicle, but he listened to his pack lead with a snarl.
I hugged myself, lungs feeling like stone. It was over.
“Find your voice, find your strength.”My mother’s words whispered, but it was far too late for dreams.
I had no strength left. Not for my voice, not for my hope.
Not for my dreams, that had always left me more empty than before.
“Come here.” Zeus’s command was jarring. I was picking myself up, my soul shaken, too fragile to fight it. I had just tried to shatter the cage that held me, tried to shatter myself.
I had no more strength left.
He took my wrists, turning my hands in his, examining them. There was a cut on one, though it wasn’t deep. He looked amused. “You really are a wildcard, Vex. If we keep you, I’ll enjoy punishing you for behaviour like that,” he told me, reaching up and tracing the dampness on my cheeks.
But there was only one word of his that stuck.
I stared at him.
“If?” My voice was a rasp.
“Your mates have been harassing me,” Zeus said. “But I need to know if they can put their money where their mouth is.”
