Anointed Omega (Quarantine Omega Book 5) by Lizzy Bequin

Author:Lizzy Bequin [Bequin, Lizzy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 30: OPHELIA

I don’t know where I am, but it’s someplace dark, and the air is alive with the sound of growling.

For a second, I think I must be back in that cave after the explosion hit. Everything I’ve been through with Seraph and the alphas was just a dream, a fantasy conjured up by my concussed brain. Now I’ve woken up for real to find myself back in that lightless tunnel surrounded by a different pack of less hospitable alphas.

But I quickly realize that can’t be the case. For one thing, if I were surrounded by alphas, I would smell them. But at the moment, I can’t smell anything. Nothing at all. The total absence of any scent is actually pretty disconcerting.

And for another thing, those growling voices don’t sound like alphas to me. They’re not deep enough. They actually sound almost… feminine? That’s weird. I never thought something could be both feminine and aggressive at the same time, but obviously it is possible.

That’s not the strangest part, though.

I know I’m not in a cave because my body feels like it’s floating. I don’t mean I’m just floating in water. It feels like there’s no gravity at all, like I’m drifting through an endless black void. Like space, but without all those stars I saw last night.

Shit. Am I dead?

The last thing I can remember is struggling underwater, the cold current of the river dragging me along, my lungs burning with the desperate need for oxygen. I remember my brain felt like it was splitting in two. And then there was a sensation of falling…

Maybe this is hell? If so, it’s not so bad. At least, not yet. There’s no pain, no horrific sights. Those growling voices are pretty scary, but that’s all.

Still, the prospect of spending eternity like this is downright terrifying.

I start to cry.

It’s not so much for myself as for my alphas. And for Seraph too. I’m going to miss them. I know it’s crazy because I only knew them for a few days. Yet in that short time, I developed a bond with all of them that was stronger than anything I’d ever had back in the facility where I was born and raised.

I even feel that way about Marr. I remember the look on his face as he dove off the cliff after me, trying to save me, and that only makes me cry harder.

“Ophelia…”

The voice startles me. It’s soft and distant, barely audible over the storm of growling that surrounds me. I hold back my sobs and listen. For a minute there is nothing, then I hear it again, a little closer and louder this time.

“Ophelia…”

I hesitate, uncertain whether or not I should respond. I probably ought to be scared of whatever entity is looking for me in a place like this, but there is something about that voice that’s familiar and comforting. I decide to answer the call.

“Who’s there?” I shout.

“Ophelia, it is me, Seraph.”

My heart beats faster. “Seraph? Is it really you?”

“Yes.

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