All Chapters of Omega Rebellion: Shadows Of Power: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

POV: Kael“What did you see,” I asked and my voice was lower than I intended because I was afraid of what her answer might be.Nova stood at the center of the sacred circle and the staff was planted in the stone before her and her hands rested on it lightly and her eyes were closed and the air around her shimmered faintly as if the cave itself was holding its breath. She did not answer at once and I waited because I had learned that she would speak when she was ready and I could not push her into words that were not fully formed.“I saw them,” she said finally and her voice was soft and distant as if she was speaking from somewhere far away. “The Omegas who stood in the circle before the old laws were written and I felt what they felt and I saw what they saw and I understood why the Alphas who ruled with fear burned their records and scattered their wolves.”I stepped closer and I kept my voice steady. “What did you understand because I need to know what you saw and I need to know wha

POV: Kael“Say it again,” I told him and I made sure my voice did not shake even though the wind carried the scent of iron and threat through our camp and even though I could see the weight of what he was saying in the faces of the wolves who stood behind me.“The law has been called,” Rowan answered and his jaw was tight as stone because he knew what the law meant and he knew what it would cost. “The rival Alpha stands by the old code and he demands a duel under the blood moon and the winner takes full dominance and the winner claims territory and allegiance and submission and the loser has no claim and no voice and no pack to return to.”The fire between us snapped and it threw sparks into the dark and wolves stood in a wide circle around the clearing and no one spoke and no one moved and even the night felt like it was waiting for the answer that I had to give. I am Kael and I am Alpha of this pack and the weight of their silence pressed against my chest harder than any blade ever

POV: Nova“You cannot step in,” Kael said and his voice cut through the heavy night air with a steadiness that belied the tension coiling in his shoulders, yet I heard the warning beneath his words and I felt the fear that he was trying to hide from me.I stepped closer to him and I let the cold bite of the red moon settle against my skin because I needed to feel something other than the fear that was pressing against my chest. “I am not staying back and I am not watching you fight a war that was never yours to fight alone because I have spent too many nights watching wolves I love fall and I will not spend another night watching you bleed for a war that I could have stopped.”The clearing stretched before us and it was lit by the eerie glow of the blood moon that hung low and heavy in the sky, and shadows of the surrounding forest leaned in as if they were watching and waiting for the moment when the duel would begin. Darius stood at the far edge and his posture was rigid and his eye

POV: Kael“Nova,” I said and her name left my mouth before I understood what I was seeing because she was still standing and she was still looking at the coalition wolves who were kneeling before her, but something was wrong and I could feel it through the bond that tied us and I could feel it in the way her power was pulsing against my chest like a heartbeat that was losing its rhythm.The coalition still knelt and the forest stood quiet around us and the last red stain of the moon had faded into pale silver, and the air no longer trembled because the power that had moved through her had done what it came to do and it was settling back into the roots and the soil and the stone where it had been sleeping since the old laws were written.But Nova swayed and at first it was small and it was almost gentle like someone who had stood too long without rest and the weight of what she had done was pressing against her shoulders, and then her knees bent and I moved before she hit the ground an

POV: Lyra“It is over,” Rowan said as he came down the ridge and his boots were heavy with mud and travel dust because he had been walking the borders since the coalition retreated and he had been watching the paths that we had cut and the lines that we had held and the wolves who had come to take what was ours.I did not answer at once because I kept my eyes on the valley below where the last of the coalition banners were being taken down and the wind pulled at the cloth and then let it fall and no one fought to raise it again because the wolves who had carried them were gone and they were not coming back. “It is over here,” I said quietly and I let the words settle into the space between us because I had learned that victory was not the same as peace and that the end of one war was often the beginning of another.Rowan stopped beside me and his voice was steady when he spoke. “Darius has withdrawn fully and the outer packs have followed because they have seen what the power that Nov