Page 60 of Eclipse Sector
Just like now.
With an Alpha I thought I could trust.
And all for what? Going on an evening jog as a wolf?
Cillian had wanted to prove a point—that I wasn’t safe here.
Congratulations. I believe you,I thought, not caring at all if he could hear me or not.The only one I can trust to protect me is myself.
Yet I couldn’t shadow. He’d lassoed me with his strength, ensuring I was trapped before him.
Oh, my paws could move. But what would he do if I ran? Flatten me to the ground like my brother and father had? Force me to obey? Truly make me kneel?
Are you even listening to me?Cillian demanded, his words piercing through the fog of my thoughts.
No, I replied, both in answer to his question and in response to his dominant air.No. I wouldnotbe tied down again. I was a free Omega now, allowed to make my own decisions.
But not free to shadow, apparently, I growled to myself.Likely not free to run, either. Because it’s not safe here. And Cillian, the Alpha I thought would always protect me, just proved that he can’t be trusted.
Throttling my ability to shadow.
Chastising me.
Kissing me out of pity.
Sharing an igloo with one fucking bed.
Saying I wasn’t in his league.
Rejectingme.
It… it was all too fucking much. I’d spent years pining for this Alpha, wanting to be his mate, thinking he was just playing hard to get.
But now…
Now I understand who you are,I muttered, my wolf’s gaze meeting his dark orbs.And I won’t fucking bow.
Vana…The nickname trailed off in my mind, his voice a mere whisper, one I shoved from my head before he could finish whatever profound statement or threat he’d intended to make.
Because I was done.
Done being rejected.
Done with his pity.
Done with being grounded by his power.
Done. With. Him.
My animal roared as I screamed inside my mind, needing to befree. Free of the burden of his presence. Free of this obsession. Free of this childish crush. Free of his oppressive energy.
Free. Of. Him.
“Ivana,” he said, having shifted back into his human form.
I didn’t even care that he was standing before me. Didn’t care that he’d shifted in the blink of an eye. Didn’t care that he was fucking naked.
Didn’t care at all.
