All Chapters of Forgotten Omega,The Alpha's Regret: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The coffee pot slipped from my hands, but I caught it before it shattered against the cracked linoleum floor. My fingers trembled as I set it back on the burner. Three years of waitressing had made me good at catching things before they broke.If only I'd been that good at catching my life before it fell apart."You alright there, hon?" The trucker at the counter squinted at me through the fluorescent haze of Rosie's All-Night Diner. His name tag said Earl, and he'd been nursing the same cup of burnt coffee for the past hour."Fine." I forced a smile that felt like plastic. "Just tired."That was the understatement of the century. My feet ached in the cheap sneakers I'd bought at the thrift store. My lower back screamed from carrying heavy trays for eight hours straight. And my wolf—what was left of her—barely stirred anymore, too weak from the incomplete mate bond to do more than whimper occasionally in the back of my mind.But I was alive. My sons were safe. That was all that matter

Caden stumbled backward, his boots skidding on the wet gravel. The power that had exploded from Ash hung in the air like static electricity, making the hair on my arms stand up.Ash was sobbing against my shoulder, his small body shaking. "Hurts, Mama. Make it stop.""I know, baby. I'm trying." I held him tighter, my heart hammering so hard I thought it might crack a rib.Caden stared at us, his face sheet white. He looked at his hand like it had betrayed him, then at Ash, then at me. "What just happened?""You tell me." My voice came out sharper than I meant it to. "You're the one who caused this."The car door opened behind me. Ryder climbed out, unsteady on his feet, and immediately wrapped himself around my leg. He buried his face against my jeans, peeking out at Caden with wide, frightened eyes.Vivienne was still standing by the SUV, frozen in place. She looked between Caden and the boys like she was trying to solve an equation that didn't make sense. When she finally moved, it

I'd never seen a Lycan King before. I'd heard the stories, the warnings, the reverent whispers about creatures that were more than Alpha, more than wolf. But nothing prepared me for Ezra Nightshade standing in the doorway.He was the tallest man I'd ever seen, easily clearing six and a half feet. His presence sucked the air out of the room. Dark hair fell to his collar, shot through with silver streaks that caught the light. But it was his eyes that held me frozen.Ice blue. Cold as winter. And looking at me like he'd found something he'd lost a long time ago.The mate bond snapped into place so hard I felt it in my bones. Different from Caden's. Where Caden's bond had always felt like fire, this one was ice. Sharp and clean and absolutely undeniable.I couldn't breathe.Caden felt it too. His Alpha aura exploded outward, a warning that made the lights flicker. His hand tightened on my arm. "Get. Out."Ezra didn't even look at him. Those ice-blue eyes stayed locked on me as he walked

The sacred grove looked different at night.We'd moved outside because Thorne insisted the ritual needed to happen under open sky, where moonlight could touch all of us directly. Maya and Kyle had carried the boys down while I walked between Caden and Ezra, feeling the weight of both mate bonds pulling at me like opposing currents.The grove was a perfect circle of ancient trees, their branches forming a natural cathedral overhead. Someone had cleared the broken glass and debris from the earlier attack. Now the ground was covered in symbols drawn in something that glowed faintly silver in the darkness.Moon water, Thorne had called it. Sacred and rare and apparently essential for not killing everyone involved."Put them here." Thorne indicated two spots in the center of the circle, equidistant from each other. "The boys need to be able to see both fathers and their mother throughout the ritual."Kyle laid Ryder down gently, his big hands surprisingly careful. Maya settled Ash beside h

I woke to sunlight streaming through the gaps in the boarded windows and the smell of coffee.For a confused moment, I thought I was back in the apartment above the laundromat. Then I heard Ash and Ryder's voices, bright and energetic, and reality crashed back.Pack house. Silvermoon territory. Two mates. One homicidal brother. A father-in-law who'd murdered my parents.Just a normal Tuesday.I sat up, my neck protesting from sleeping in the chair. Caden was gone, but Ezra remained by the window, looking like he hadn't moved all night. Knowing him, he probably hadn't."They're in the kitchen with Maya," Ezra said without turning around. "She's making them pancakes shaped like wolves. They think it's hilarious."The domestic normalcy of that statement felt surreal. "You've been watching them?""Someone had to. You needed sleep." He finally looked at me, and I was struck again by how those ice-blue eyes seemed to see too much. "How are you feeling?""Like I got hit by a magical truck."