Page 197 of Dark Haven Omegaverse

I aimed to laugh but it fell flat between us. There was no humor in our murder, even if the end result was more than we could have ever dreamt of.

“I want to see the outside of this room, too, but Loki didn’t give us a way out,” Roman pointed out as he stood and started pacing, gesturing at the blank walls as he went.

Our current room was more of a cell. Two beds, an attached bathroom with a shower, and that was about it. There was no escape in sight.

“Loki doesn’t do anything by halves. This is probably his way of making us face this shit,” I muttered. That god knew far more about us than he should. “How the hell are we supposed to wrap our fucking heads around this? We’re two different people. What if Harlow doesn’t like me as I am now? She’s used to me looking like you and now I’m a different person.”

“No you aren’t,” Roman argued. He stopped pacing to glare down at me. The sight nearly made me smile. He looked exactly like I pictured in my mind. Well, with a gargoyle upgrade. “You’re still the same, just a new body. This is a second chance for us, a way to exist as our own people.”

But that wasn’t the main issue.

I just couldn’t seem to get past the loneliness I was drowning in. A hollow feeling had settled in my gut, like something was missing.

Maybe it was all in my head, we were all crazy after all, but it felt wrong not to have someone else in my head with me.

Between that and the missing bond… I was a mess.

“I don’t know how to be alone,” I finally admitted.

Roman blinked at me a few times before understanding dawned in his now gray eyes. He slumped down on the bed next to me, his leg touching mine to offer comfort.

“It’s weird, isn’t it? I feel empty without having another presence in my head. We couldn’t exactly talk, yet I knew you were always there. But now? We get to actually talk. No more blackouts, and that trauma that created us? It feels like a whole other lifetime,” he explained. He was right about that, there were good and bad things about the split.

Or maybe I just hated change.

“What more can we do here, then?” I bit out, gripping my black hair in frustration. “We get it, everything is different. This will obviously not be something we get over in an instant, it’ll take some getting used to.”

“What’s the real issue here? Why are you so angry, Hiro?” Roman sounded hurt at my reaction, and I had to take a few calming breaths to continue.

“I’m a human still, Roman. She’s going to be some type of goddess, surrounded by demons and gargoyles. Then there’s me. Unchanged. Forever the weakest link.”

My voice rose with each word, all semblance of calm slipping away as the panic took over. I jumped up and started to pace, letting it consume me.

How could I be enough for her now? I was nowhere in the same league as the rest of them.

“Uh, humans can’t do that,” Roman called out as a fierce wind whipped into the room. It sounded like my brother was far away as deafening winds swirled around me, encasing me within them.

It stunned me enough that the anger slipped away, and with it, the storm.

I did that. Me.

“So... maybe I’m not a human?” I said as I glanced around. “But I’m still a freak. Is it weird that’s oddly comforting?” Roman’s laughter echoed in the space as he lost it.

“No, I get it,” he said as he shook his head. “But do you think you could maybe bust us out of here with that power?”

Hope sparked to life inside of me. Not only had Roman, an alpha, turned to me to help. But I finally felt useful.

If I could pull it off.

“Uh... maybe?” I stood against the far wall and held out my hands, hoping something would happen. I even went as far as mentally willing whatever magic or power I had to blast the wall open.

Nothing happened.

“You were angry. Maybe high emotions help you channel it. Think about that asshole that killed us. Or about our past.”

Shaking out my shoulders I turned back to the wall, breathing evenly as I drew up every bad memory I could muster.

The fear I felt, the helplessness when Vance tried to touch me before Roman took over. The fact that Roman had to be strong so many times for me.

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