Chapter 12 - Getting Into Town

The next few days followed the same pattern.

Rise with the morning light, travel until lunch, then stop for a break. Then continue for the afternoon until the sun began to fade and set up camp.

Linus still hadn’t worked out how to treat his omega companion and spent his days much as he had before Skye joined them; helping with the chores when they stopped and night watches when they made camp for the evening.

Every other day, he practiced sparring with Terni to continue his training.

The only real marked difference was the warm body pressed against his when he slipped into his bedroll.

Dyllen had been giving Skye all the worst tasks to complete when they made camp and while Linus expected some kind of complaint, none came.

Honestly, if he had to do all the shit jobs repeatedly, he would have taken it up with Dyllen himself. Although such confrontation was probably against the gentle omega’s instincts.

Today marked a change in pace, however.

They approached the large town of Athelney,