All Chapters of The Omega and The Arrogant Alpha: Chapter 241 - Chapter 250

Restlessness settles into me like a second pulse.It starts subtle. A tightness in my calves. A need to move that does not have a direction attached to it. I pace the length of the cabin after sunset, counting steps without meaning to. Window to door. Door to sink. Sink to window. I stop only when t

I do not sleep much the night before.Not because I am afraid of the council. Fear is too simple for what this is. Fear has edges. It sharpens you, gives you something to push against. This feels different. This feels like standing in a doorway too long, knowing that whatever I choose will close som

The quiet does not arrive all at once.It seeps in.The first thing I notice is what does not happen. No alert buzzing my tablet at dawn. No layered messages waiting to be sorted by urgency. No courier requests marked immediate, no council updates phrased like favors. I wake up to light instead of o

A year later, I stand on a ridge at dawn and let the cold air bite my lungs.It is the same kind of cold it always was. Clean. Sharp. Honest. It strips everything unnecessary away and leaves only what is real. I breathe it in slow and steady, counting without meaning to, feeling my boots settle into

I wake before the light, the way my body still prefers it.The habit never left. It does not feel like vigilance anymore. It feels like alignment. I open my eyes to darkness that is already thinning, the edges of the room just beginning to separate from one another. The cabin is still. Even the boar