Posing for the Omega (For the Alpha #2)(34)
“Hexis? Who is he? Dey told me about a luperci named Hexis when he came and… killed her omega brother.” She’s said she didn’t know who he was, but now I wasn’t so sure. How would she have known the alphas name from her hiding spot in the woods? How could she have learned that information while watching a battle from so far away? The holes in her story were starting to stream with light and I didn’t want to dig into the painful emotional wound that caused.
“So this female knows Hexis. What an unlucky bitch.” The females fur started to rise along her back. Either she was angry thinking about the luperci, or she was afraid. Was Hexis so terrifying? “He’s a piece of shit is what he is. The lead alpha of the luperci pack I came from, that prick loves to watch things suffer. When I was young there was an omega that Hexis had. The omega was a beautiful creature with crystal blue eyes named Kira. He was smaller than most omegas with the blackest fur and palest skin and a soft smile he gave every pup no matter how much he suffered. I remember when I was still very young I’d been beaten after I fucked up skinning a deer. Kira cleaned my wounds even though it was forbidden. Omega’s are never supposed to help females and we are never supposed to help them. Hexis enjoyed torturing Kira the most. I think Hexis noticed when he was kind and he couldn’t stand it. He made an example of Kira to all the other omegas — there was nothing he wouldn’t do to him, he wanted him to fucking break it was obvious. No one in that fucking pack knew how strong he really was, not until he was caught.”
Cold seeped into my bones as I listened to her. What if I had been left there in that horrible place? What if Zora had? “Caught?”
She nodded her wolf head, ears flattening against her skull. “He was the one taking the pups. He’s the reason you got away.” She eyed me closely. “And as much as you look like him, it’s probably safe to say Kira is your dama.”
“MY DAMA!” I said it louder than I’d meant to and looked around to make sure no one was disturbed. The beta continued to sleep and no one came out of their dens to investigate. My heart jumped painfully in my chest and I stepped forward unconsciously. My birth dama was alive? She knew who he was! I looked like him. What was he like? No, wait she’s said he was the ones smuggling the pups out of the pack. My dama had given me away. That realization stung. Logically I know it shouldn’t but it was hard not to feel hurt that my birth parent could give me up to strangers so easily. “I don’t understand. How was he taking the pups? Why?” She’s said it was segregated, but she was live after living among her own kind.
“Are you seriously so fucking naive?” Svara snapped in a low whisper. “Your fucking little romance with your alpha doesn’t happen, not among other luperci. Omega’s are breeding machines and nothing more. They aren’t as common as alphas and females, so the alpha’s hoard them and fuck them with as much violence as they beat the females. There is no mating, no choices. Those fuckers out in the woods will kill your alpha and fuck you in his blood till you are so broken you can’t move. That’s the nightmare we live in. What we are.”
I felt my head shaking back and forth violently. What she said couldn’t be true, at least not the entire reality. It couldn’t be. “Zora isn’t like that. You said all alphas are bloodthirsty and that they would be like the others, but my mate is not like that. He’s smart, loyal and strong and more than anything he loves his pack. He loves me.” He wasn’t like the blood wolves and I wouldn’t let her tie him into the bastards that maimed the world like they did.
“No. I misjudged your alpha, but if he’d been raised in the blood he would be like the others. There is no alpha that isn’t corrupted by the evil there.”
“You don’t know that.” How could she! “You don’t know how they all feel, if others are to afraid to step forward.” I had to believe that, because what would that say for my kind if all the alphas were cruel, all omegas used and the females tossed aside like waste.
“You are so fucking dumb. Life isn’t some happy fun rainbow cunt. The alpha’s control everything and no matter what they will destroy everything in their path. No one leaves the pack, and if they try their dead. All the foundlings were either killed or brought back into the pack. The omega’s that resisted were slaughtered.”
Nausea rolled in my gut as I remembered the ugly story Dey had told us about her brothers dead. Hexis had slaughtered the entire pack and then her omega kin. Her pain had been tangible when she’d told me and Koda the story. Losing Vey had taken a part of her, I had to believe it was the truth and not more lies and omissions. “Life isn’t as evil as you make it out to be!” I snapped. “I’ve lived my entire life like this, no wolf knowing what I am and oblivious to the fact I was a foundling— and yet they still took me in. They feared me but my adopted litter mates loved me and so did my dama. My alpha loves me. Me and him are proof that there is more to our species then just malice.”
“Maybe that’s why Kira stole an alpha pup. Maybe he figured he could be different.” Svara mused.
I know he was different. I would never forget the evil I’d seen when I’d stared into Lathos eyes and the other luperci alphas. They were all monsters that should exist in your nightmares and not because of how they looked. Those eyes had told me they would kill every wolf in this pack just because they could. “If my dama took Zora then he saw something good in him.” I had to believe that.