All Chapters of The Omega The Alpha Couldn't Kill: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Nova's head throbbed as she stepped out of Fin's room. The corridors felt heavier than usual, the air too still. Elle walked beside her quietly, her face drawn in concern.Back in their room, Elle exhaled and flopped dramatically onto her bed. "You look like death warmed over," she muttered."Thanks," Nova said flatly, a ghost of a smile tugging at her lips."Seriously, Nova—""Elle," Nova interrupted softly, "go stay with Cael. You don't have to keep watch over me. I'm fine. I just need to rest my eyes for a bit, that's all."Elle frowned, arms crossing."Go," Nova said again, gentler this time. "Please."It took a full minute of arguing, but finally Elle relented. "Fine. But if you start glowing again or doing weird magic stuff, I'm coming right back."Nova managed a small laugh. "Deal."When the door shut, silence settled. It was too quiet.She made her way to the adjoining bathing chamber and filled the large stone tub. Steam rose, fogging the mirror. She slipped into the hot wat

Jax stretched and pulled himself off her bed. It was much smaller than his. The mattress sagged noticeably."Seriously," he teased, "This bed is about as comfortable as a thorn bush."She chuckled, a faint light in her eyes. "Not when you're in it with me."He grinned and reached out and brushed a knuckle along her jaw. "Come back with me — to my quarters. To our quarters."Her throat tightened for a moment, emotions rising like a tide she couldn't name.A swirl of something settled in Jax's chest too—something sharp and hot. Desire... was he feeling jealousy? Of what? He swallowed it down, unsure of what to make of it."Okay," she said softly.They walked hand in hand through the quiet castle halls. The moment the doors to his quarters closed behind them, a hush settled—warm, still, safe.Steam curled from the bathing alcove, scented with lavender and cedarwood. The bath was drawn as he had already mindlinked

Nova turned toward Fin, brushing a lock of hair from her face. "You said if I landed three in a row, you'd have a new challenge for me. What did you mean by that?"Fin smirked. "Usually we save this for advanced warriors, not cadets. But you're not really a cadet, are you?"She arched a brow, intrigued."We'll have you shoot at live targets."Her face dropped."Runners," he clarified, hands sliding into his pockets like this was nothing out of the ordinary. "Warriors running at full speed across the range — first in human form, and later, in wolf form."Nova's brows pulled together. "What if the arrow hits though? Won't they get hurt?""In wolf form, we put a reinforced armor shield over their flank and chest," he explained, gesturing across his ribs. "It's enchanted and won't weigh them down. And in human form..."His smirk widened. "The runner catches the arrow before it hits.""They catch it?" she repeated skeptically."They do. The runners for this kind of training are always elit

The mindlink hit Jax mid-sentence, and she watched his expression shift from relaxed to Gamma Thorne in under a second. He kissed her forehead, told her to stay put, and was gone before she could ask what was wrong.Left alone, she let her gaze drift across the room. She wasn't snooping. She was conducting an unsanctioned tactical survey of her mate's personal belongings. Completely different.A half-hidden volume on his bookshelf caught her eye. War strategy. Pack conflicts of the last five hundred years. Why some packs rose, why others crumbled into dust.Light reading. The kind of thing normal people grabbed when they couldn't sleep. Or when they were secretly unhinged.She didn't consider herself a fast reader, yet the moment she opened it the pages pulled her in, each chapter feeling disturbingly familiar, like scattered memories rising too quickly to the surface. Her brain was doing that thing again, the thing she refused to name, where information locked into place like it had

The exam landed on Nova's desk and she almost laughed.Almost. She bit the inside of her cheek hard enough to taste copper, because laughing in Professor Shard's classroom was roughly equivalent to spitting on a hornet's nest.She sat in a lecture hall, amid rows of students and 1st year cadets.Essay questions only, on werewolf war strategy. The subject she'd accidentally become an expert on weeks ago because she couldn't keep her hands off her mate's bookshelf. Coincidence? Or was Jax behind this? Her classmates stared at the exam sheets. Eyes wide, pens hovering. Milo Briant flipped his paper over, as if looking for an alternate version. Elle buried her head in her hands, trying not to panic. Rael glanced at her bouncing knee. "Can you not? Some of us are trying to fail in peace."Nova sat back. She could have joined them in confusion. But instead she found herself calmly reading the questions, and knowing the answers.Question One: Supply denial often harms the aggressor as