Chapter 44: You redeemed me

“So it was Uma?” Adriana asks, slumping into one of Axel’s overstuffed chairs. “But that doesn’t make sense. She saved him.”

“She was forced.” Gwen explains over the phone line, “And then she was afraid to say anything. She hasn’t left her home since it happened.” I can feel Gwen’s distress over the situation. Which is understandable.

This is Gwen’s first real Luna ask where she and her mate may have to be responsible for the punishment coming to their top healing due to circumstances none of them made. Marc had made them. He always loved fucking up people’s lives and here he is from the grave, doing it again.

“Is she there?” I ask, remaining calm. Which feels like a feat.

“She is,” Hugo says. My eyes snap to Adriana, who looks sick and conflicted as she rubs her tummy.

“Uma, I want you to explain it to me.” I sigh.

“Alpha Liam…”

“I have told you before, I’m not an Alpha and now I am an omega. Refer to me as Liam,” I snap at her, hating how the word omega tastes on my tongue.

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