Todos os capítulos de THE OMEGA'S VOW: Capítulo 11 - Capítulo 20

~ LYRA ~I sat on the bed for a long time after Kael left.The fireplace crackled gently, and the room was warm. It was quiet. But my hands wouldn't stop shaking.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw the back window of the SUV shattering. I heard the gunshots. I felt the glass spraying across my skin, and Kael shoving me toward the floorboard.I looked down at my jeans. There were still tiny pieces of glass caught in the fabric. I picked them out one by one, dropping them onto the nightstand. My fingers were clumsy and stiff.This was my life now. Running from hitmen and hiding in a compound on a mountain with a man I had known for days.I stood up and walked to the bathroom. I turned on the faucet and splashed cold water on my face. The chill slowed my breathing, brought me back into my body.I looked at my reflection. The woman staring back at me was a mess. Dark circles under her eyes, a fading bruise on her cheek, hair tangled from the wind. The oversized t-shirt Kael had given me h

~ LYRA ~Breakfast was a quiet affair.I sat across from Kael in the dining hall. The table was long enough to seat fifty people, but it was just the two of us. The high ceilings and stone walls amplified every sound—the scrape of cutlery, the clink of glasses."You did well today," Kael said, not looking up from his tablet. He scrolled through something, his expression focused."I landed one hit," I said, picking at my toast. My appetite hadn't fully returned yet. "And you let me.""I didn't let you do anything," Kael said. He looked up then, meeting my gaze. "You're faster than you should be. Stronger too. Your recovery time is... unusual.""Adrenaline," I suggested, though I knew that wasn't the whole truth."Maybe," Kael said. But he looked thoughtful. "Or maybe it's the bloodline.""The Veyrith thing?" I asked. "Marcus mentioned a stone.""The Veyrith Stone is an amplifier," Kael explained. "But the Veyrith *blood*... that's a myth. They were a clan of Alphas so powerful the othe

~ DARIUS ~The bourbon burned going down, but it didn't calm the storm raging inside my chest.I stood in my office, staring at the phone on my desk. Thorne's voice was still echoing in my head, the way it trembled when he described what happened at Draven's gate. Alpha Thorne, a man who had fought in three territory wars, reduced to a shaking wreck by an omega girl."Darius," Selene said carefully from the doorway. "You need to calm down.""Thorne pulled his alliance," I said without turning around. "That's twenty percent of our military support gone because my ex-wife apparently has powers that shouldn't exist."Selene walked inside and closed the door behind her. She wore a white silk robe, her blonde hair loose around her shoulders. Her hand rested on her stomach the way it always did now."He's exaggerating," Selene said as she lowered herself onto the couch. "She's an omega. She can't even shift properly.""An omega who forced an Alpha to his knees without speaking," I snapped.

~ SELENE ~The call came at midnight.I was sitting on the edge of the bathtub in Darius's penthouse, staring at the phone in my hand. The screen was dark. The contact name glowed faintly.Kael.I hadn't spoken to him in over two years. Not since the night I left his apartment with my suitcase and told him I didn't love him anymore. Not since I chose Darius.That was the biggest lie I had ever told.My thumb hovered over the call button. Lucinda's instructions played in my head on a loop. Tell him you're scared. Tell him Darius is out of control. Tell him the baby might be his.The baby.I pressed my hand against my stomach. The bump was barely visible, just a slight curve beneath my robe. Darius's child. Not Kael's. I knew that for certain.But Kael didn't.I pressed the button.The phone rang three times before he answered."Who is this?" His voice was low and flat. The same voice I used to fall asleep listening to."It's me," I said.Silence.Long, suffocating silence."Selene," Ka

~ LYRA ~Mara was already waiting when I reached the courtyard at dawn."You look tired," she said."I didn't sleep well," I replied."Good," Mara said. "Tired is honest. It means your body is adjusting to the energy shifts. If you had slept like a baby, I'd be worried."She led me to the chalk circle again. I stepped inside without being told."Yesterday was about finding your core," Mara said. "Today is about controlling what comes out of it.""Controlled projection," I said, remembering her words from the day before."Exactly," Mara said. "What you did to Thorne was a blast. Raw, unfiltered power thrown outward with no aim and no restraint. It worked because he wasn't expecting it. But against a trained opponent, or an Inquisitor, a wild burst like that will get you killed.""So what do I do differently?" I asked."You aim," Mara said simply. She walked to the edge of the courtyard and dragged a wooden training dummy into position about fifteen feet away. It was battered and scarre