Semua Bab The Alpha's Despised Omega: Bab 71 - Bab 80

Elena blinked into dim light as consciousness crept back into her. Her vision was still blurry, but shapes were slowly starting to take form. The first thing she noticed was the ceiling… low wooden beams worn by time, but carefully polished smoothly as if someone had been caring for them over the years. She turned her head, groaning softly at the stab of pain it caused, and saw the rest of the room.It was small and old, the kind of place that was an evidence of years gone by. The curtains, faded but freshly washed, hung neatly beside a square window where a bit of sunlight struggled through. The bed was firm but neatly made, and she realized with a strange disorientation that someone had tucked her in under the blanket.It was… tidy. Old, but cared for.Her heart began to thud wildly as she began to get herself back. This wasn’t her room in Shadow Pack, neither was it Damon's Pack house. And for a horrifying second, she couldn’t even remember how she had gotten her

As they ate in silence, Elena couldn't stop staring no matter how she tried to. There was so much that she wanted to know about him also, but she wasn't sure how to place the question without making him angry, especially since she didn't tell her own story.“What about you, Leo?” She asked timidly. “What's your own story?”“My story.” He grinned sheepishly, stayed quiet for a while, and then the words came out calm and patient. “Maybe if you know who I am, it will put you a bit at ease.”Something in the way he said it quickly hooked her attention, and she knew instantly that it wasn't just casual talk anymore. There was now a lost look in his eyes, almost like someone who was reaching to the past and digging up ghosts he had buried a long time ago.After staying silent and mumbling a few things to himself, Leo finally began to speak again.“A long time ago, I wasn’t really living like this,” he said, spreading his hand out to signify the modest cottage. “I

The city swallowed Damon the moment his car pulled into its crowded veins. He had driven for hours, and every turn of the wheel had carried him far from the peace and emptiness of the countryside, and deeper into the concrete heart of the city where danger lurked in every street. He wasn’t here for leisure despite all the distractions on either side of him, his mind was still in a storm over Elena’s absence, and regaining his composure for the search was his only priority.Her scent had somehow gone cold, and the trail seemed scattered. But exhaustion had caught up with him, and his instinct was telling him to pause. Even if it was only for long enough to collect himself and refocus on his mission.He pulled into the parking lot of a modest hotel he found after a brief search, a place that didn’t draw too much attention. He checked in with a fake name, and the desk clerk was too absorbed in his computer screen to take note of anything. Good, Damon preferred it that way.His room smell

The hours quickly sped by once they were at the hotel, and for the first time since Elena’s disappearance, his mission had been put on hold… not because he had chosen it, but because circumstance had forced it on him.Mara was sprawled across the bed of the hotel room, covered in sweat, and breathing heavily in her unconscious state. Every once in a while, she muttered some incoherent, things that he couldn't understand, and despite his frustration, he just sat quietly in the chair closest to her bed.Two days had gone by and she remained unconscious. And in those two days he never left her side.The strange men had done something to her that wasn't ordinary, and even he had felt it too. She should have been healed completely in hours as a werewolf, but the injuries from whatever had been used on her still remained. He didn't really know what it was, but he could see that its effect on a wolf was severe. And yet, despite all the pain, Mara still managed to hold on t

“It means,” Hector growled, his voice low and dangerous, “that someone thinks they can test us. That someone thinks we’re weak without Damon here. But they’ll regret it. I’ll find the snake, and I’ll skin them alive.”He had barely even finished speaking before the second sound came… another elder choking, clutching his throat and falling to the ground, exhibiting the same exact symptoms of elder Marlow.Everyone suddenly froze at the new development as the second victim, Elder Rowan struggled on the ground, wheezing loudly and trying to understand what was wrong with him. “G…gods,” he rasped, thrashing wildly as the same convulsions stormed through his body.“No…” another elder whispered in horror.Rowan’s collapse however suddenly looked like it was a signal. All the other remaining elders who had looked normal just moments earlier suddenly began to gasp too, coughing violently, with their faces going pale as strength drained from them like water that was leak