Page 59 of Eclipse Sector
She was not impressed.
And neither was I.
I know better than to fight an Alpha in wolf form, Cillian. I would shadow somewhere and find a weapon to use—from a distance.
His beast started prowling around me again, that energy intensifying and causing my animal to whine in response. She didn’t like the oppressive feel of his aura against ours, his presence no longer a welcome warmth, but a chilling caress.
What happens when you can’t shadow, Omega?he asked me, his mental voice taking on a dark tone.Will you end up in a hole again? Used and abused and waiting for someone like me to rescue you?
I flinched inside, his words lashing against my heart and unleashing a myriad of memories. Of a time when I should have been safe. Of a time when I’d naively trusted those who’d been meant to protect me. Of a time when I ended up in the ground, unable to move. Unable to shadow. Unable toscream.
My wolf shuddered as well, no doubt feeling the haunting nightmare of our past creeping across my consciousness.
Or she was responding to the repressive energy weighing down on her being, demanding that shekneel.
Cillian…
If you wanted to go for a run, perhaps you should have mentioned it to Ransom. Asked him for an outdoor date instead of a movie date.He resumed his pacing, his power pressing down on me even more as he moved.Or maybe you could have waited to ask Cael to escort you.
My wolf’s jaw clenched, her legs nearly giving out beneath the onslaught of his Alpha prowess.
He was making a point. Pushing my animal into the ground with mere thoughts rather than brute strength. He wanted me tofeelhis power. To scare me. To… to point out what an Alpha could do to me.
But I knew that better than most.
I was fully aware of the brute strength his kind possessed.
I’d just never expected Cillian to use it against me.
Especially after what I’d been through, how he’d found me, what he’dseen.
Running without a proper guardian is foolish and unsafe,he went on, seemingly oblivious to the turmoil he’d stirred inside my mind, the pain gouging at my heart.
This was the Alpha my wolf had chosen for herself. The Alpha she’d trusted.
But now… now he was using his power against us. Sharpening his energy like a weapon and making ushurt.
All while throttling my ability to shadow, I realized, his earlier question finally registering.
What happens when you can’t shadow, Omega?he’d asked.Will you end up in a hole again? Used and abused and waiting for someone like me to rescue you?
I shivered inside, the reality of being grounded forcing my mind to push inward to a place I feared. A place I hadn’t visited in six very long years. A place I’d created when my father had wrapped me up in an invisible noose and forced me to live in thathole.
Cold.
Alone.
Waiting for mybetrothed.
A monster my father had sold me to.
A Gold Sector Alpha.
My wolf snarled, her instincts firing as she felt me retreat within our mind. She didn’t want me to hide. She wanted me tofight.
Cillian had been talking, saying something via the telepathic link he’d established, but I hadn’t heard a word of it.
I’d… shut him out. Wandered into that empty space inside my head, a place I’d resided in for what had felt like months while being trapped inside the ground, unable to move. Strapped down by an Alpha’s mental restraints.
