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Chapter 15 – Damon’s Uneasy Conscience

Author: Mercy V.
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“We’re covered either way now,” Father had said, pleased with himself. “Contract or backroom deal. No way we walk away empty‑handed.”

The words echoed in my head the next morning as I hauled firewood across the yard.

Covered either way.

To them, I was just a number with two possible buyers. To the Beta in the shadows, I was “little omega” stock. To the Debt Office man, I was “subject.”

Somewhere beyond Bloodthorn, four men had felt a flare in their bones and knew, whether they admitted it yet or not, that their sister still breathed.

Two days.

I shifted the wood against my bruised shoulder and kept walking.

***

The training field was a storm.

Damon moved at its center like a lightning strike—fast, sharp, too bright.

He drove his Beta back with a flurry of blows, wooden practice sword cracking against shield and blade with enough force to make my teeth ache. The Beta stumbled, off‑balance, barely got his guard back up in time to block the next strike.

“Again,” Damon snapped, already pi
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