The Breaker: New Waves Novels & Stories

"You don't mean that." "I do," he insists, but he won't meet my eyes when he says it. "We got caught up in something that was never going to work. Now it's over." "Just like that?" I ask, tears starting to blur my vision. "Two months together, and you can just turn it off like a switch?" "It's better this way," he says, finally looking at me. But his eyes are cold, distant, like he's looking at a stranger. "A Clean break, no more complications."

“There isn’t one. They anticipated everything. Even temporary hacks trigger alerts immediately. Any move we make will show up before we’re through the gate.” I exhaled, a low, sharp sound, and muttered, “Then we adapt and escalate.” He glanced up, wary, as if seeing the fire in my eyes might burn him too. “Sir…” Before he could finish, the screen on the side of the desk pinged. He nudged me. “Look at this.” I turned and froze. There they were Blake and Aloe. On TV, live feed. Laughing, holding hands, running along the shoreline of some public beach park. Sunlight bounced off her hair, highlighting the waves curling perfectly over her shoulders.

Instantly, a massive wave of power flooded into my body. But woven within the pure energy was a familiar, searing heat that had nothing to do with the Tears. It was raw life force. Alpha power. His power. Austen. But this was no time to think about that. "Activate the Stardust Array!" I shouted. All fifty tears lit up at once, shooting blue beams of light into the sky. My healing light merged perfectly with the starlight, and a wave of silver-blue energy exploded outwards like a tsunami. The black curse hanging over the swamp began to dissipate.

Brandon Kim’s last statement, but he kept a straight face, acting as if he wasn’t interested. “Remember this, Skylar. Your bond cannot be broken at will. You and your partner are permanently bound. The only way to break that bond is through death. This is clearly different from the typical concept of an Alpha and Omega fated pair because you are not an Alpha. Anyway, I’m done talking to you. I have to get back to work. Rest now." Dr. Brandon Kim walked out of Skylar’s room, shaking his head. Just before he disappeared behind the door, Skylar faintly heard him mutter.

The silver storm froze. Every version of Emma suspended mid-integration. The End whispered one final warning. IF YOU DO THIS… YOU BREAK EVERYTHING. Emma closed her eyes. “I already am broken.” A pause. Then softly: “But maybe I don’t have to stay that way.” The storm shattered outward. Not collapse. Not completion. Something new. Something undefined. And the moment it happened— The void beyond reality cracked open violently. The First Ones screamed. The Observer staggered backward. The Mother turned sharply.

And like a flash of light he disappeared, leaving behind nothing but an afterimage. “You did this!” Breaker returned to the real world with the anger he had racked up in his mindscape. He may be deranged, but he knew that he didn’t enter his mindscape willingly. This was because since his power up he had been fighting himself to prevent his mind from returning to that particular place. But his defenses had been broken by the Wyvern’s roar. He understood that the spiritual pressure behind that roar was meant to trap him, and it had done just that for that moment. So naturally he was vastly angry and the one who had fueled this anger was going to be the object of his wrath. His eyes were quick

"Anyone ruining things there, get me a fucking towel. The nose won't stop bleeding." Eros stifled a chuckle. Must be nice being so shielded you weren’t bothered by a sound... There wasn’t time to relish, so he got to work, slitting wires, cutting off connections, and turning up the speaker volume so loud he was sure Asher wouldn’t be able to hear himself speak when he hit it on. Done, he dropped into a sofa, chin resting on his palm. Eros exhaled slowly, fingers tapping against his knee as he waited. The water kept running, Asher cursing under his breath, oblivious to the silence that had swallowed the rest of the house.

His movements looked slightly delayed, like his mind was somewhere else entirely. Then, it happened so fast. The slid slipped. The thin piece of glass hit the edge of the table awkwardly and cracked sharply against the metal stand. Aaron reacted instinctively and reached for it before it could fall completely. Wrong move. I heard the quiet hiss leave his mouth almost immediately. The broken slide hit the floor a second later as everything around us paused. “Aaron—” Chloe grabbed his wrist instantly. A thin line of blood was already running across his palm. Chairs scraped loudly against the floor all at once.

My desktop screen glowed quietly in front of me. I tried focusing. Tried pretending I was just another employee working an ordinary job. But every small movement reminded me otherwise. The sting on my skin from Laney’s slap earlier. The missing piece beneath my dress. The memory of Romane’s eyes watching me from that jewellery store. God. I pressed my fingers against my temple tiredly. What was happening to my life? I felt not in control anymore after a very long time. My marriage was cracking apart in silence. Laney was becoming more possessive by the day. And somehow Romane had suddenly reappeared after years like a ghost refusing to stay buried.

His Alpha voice boomed through the phone, and he hung up before I could protest. I dropped my phone on the table and let out a deep sigh, rubbing my temples. A knock at the door broke the silence in my office. “Come in,” I called out. The door opened, and my assistant walked in, looking tense. “Ma’am, I just got off the phone with Rex Designs. They’re insisting on cutting off all our deals with them. And Nova—they’ve canceled our collaboration and funding.” My eyes widened in shock. “You’ve got to be kidding me!”