All Chapters of Rise Of The Betrayed Omega : Chapter 231 - Chapter 235

** Stella's POV** Ezekiel looks at Shawn once. Something brief and unreadable passes between them. Then he nods and gestures toward the car at the far end of the yard. "It would be my pleasure. Come on," he says. I follow him without looking back at Shawn... I'm done with being used as his pawn. I need to concentrate on me and my pups. --- Minutes later, the city moves past the window in streaks of amber and white. Ezekiel drives and talks. His voice fills the car — telling me how his screen lit up when the building exploded, how his stomach dropped when the heat signatures shifted, how he pushed the drones harder than he ever has. He tells me he was scared. He tells me that is not a feeling he is particularly accustomed to and that I am responsible for introducing it into his life, which he says with a tone that is trying to be light but isn't quite making it all the way there. I admit that I hear all of it but I am not listening to any of it. I am thinking about Shaw

**Shawn's POV** (Meanwhile on the other side of the city...) The human bar is packed and deafening with music and drunken laughter blending into a constant roar that makes it nearly impossible to think. That’s exactly why I chose it after the mess of a day Dmitri caused, I needed noise—something loud enough to drown out my thoughts while I sit at the counter, staring down at the glass in front of me. The bartender has already refilled it eleven times, yet the amber liquid still looks untouched as it reflects the dim lights above the bar. I swirl it slowly, pretending I’m focused on the drink. In truth, I’m trying very hard to think about nothing. But it’s useless. Every time I blink, the same image flashes behind my eyes—the explosion, the flames, Stella’s fragile body lying far too still, I thought she died and that clawed at something inside my chest. Something I believed died along with the last member of my family. 'Well,' my wolf’s voice rumbles inside my he