Page 111 of Dark Haven Omegaverse

I wasn’t perfect, but I’d learned a lot from my little human. Even when I broke her body, I soothed it and ensured her other mates were there to catch her and bring her back to reality safely.

He needed to learn to do the same. Having a human mate meant melding two worlds to give her what she needed.

For emphasis I tightened my shadows around him to the point his eyes were popping out of his skull.

Only then did I let them shift away and call my guards off, letting him fall to the ground.

“Don’t test me again, Kol. I won’t be so pleasant next time.”

Hiro

Sunday Afternoon

Dark Haven Library

My entire world had shattered around me the first time I’d read Roman’s notes.

The revelation I was not the host but simply an alter was hard to comprehend. At first, I tried to deny it, to fight against it.

But I knew he would never lie, that these records wouldn’t lie. Roman had been sure to tell me it changed nothing within us, but how could it not?

This changed everything we thought we knew.

I didn’t want to admit that my brother hadn’t died,hisbrother had.

I’m dead.

Was I even real?

I felt like a person. Yet now the words on the page were telling me that I was nothing more than a figment of Roman’s imagination.

Deep down, I knew I never saw Roman as anything less and he assured me he felt the same.

So, why couldn’t I settle my mind?

Those words wouldn’t stop haunting my thoughts.

Hiro believes his brother died protecting him. Roman has easily fallen into that role, taking on anything Hiro struggles to face. They’re two sides of a coin, one soft and naive at times while the other is a true skeptic, trusting no one and sheltering his other half from the world. At this point, the information could prove detrimental to the system.

Whoever wrote those notes was correct. No matter how hard I tried to conjure up memories of that night, it was always Roman who died for me, saved me, leaving me alone and barely coping.

It was wrong.

WhenI flipped further through the file, finally ready to see more, I found our birth certificate. Roman’s name was there on the title, Hiro nowhere to be found.

My entire reality was now shaken, everything I thought I knew was a lie, and I wasn’t sure how to move forward.

The picture attached to the file felt wrong. Roman was there as I saw him, but so was I, looking strange and different than I expected.

The features were off, the hair thicker, the body petite.

Yet it was the real Hiro staring back at me from the faded photograph.

Roman had tried to break it gently in our journal, but he couldn’t hide the truth. We always said we’d never hide important things and he stuck to that. My big brother always took promises seriously.

The pain in that passage struck me in the heart, shattering for the guilt and pain I knew he felt.

Roman was always there to save me, yet he couldn’t save me that night.

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