Born Claimed: A Dark Omegaverse Romance (Broken Angel Book 2) by Penelope Woods

Author:Penelope Woods [Woods, Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penelope Woods
Published: 2019-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal. You have aroused my anger and turned your back on me,” Virgil muttered under his breath.

“Virgil? Is that you?” Rae yawned loudly and carefully opened her eyes to the bright light of Virgil’s candle. The old man faced the opposite direction, and it appeared he was kneeling in the prayer position, despite the water rising up to his fragile hips.

As soon as her voice echoed throughout the long and hollow cavity, he turned and startled back, revealing the faint outlines of thin tears. “Oh! You’re awake.”

Rae rubbed her eyes once more and extended her curled legs from the rocky recess within the wall. Somehow, the alphas were still snoring despite her movements and speech. Trying her hardest to keep quiet, she swiveled out of the shaky bed and plopped into the shallow water.

“I heard you speaking to yourself. What was it you said?” she asked.

Virgil held the candle above his head. Rae couldn’t help but stare as the light waxed and waned around the rough ceiling. For the first time, Virgil was concerned. “I was just reciting my verses,” he said. “I’m still a religious man. Somehow.”

“Religion? You mean that you actually believe in the God of the privileged?” she asked. “Kings have used those words to rape and pillage.”

“Oh, they’ve used them to do worse than that,” he replied.

Rae noticed the sweat that was beading across his forehead, the rushed breathing that extended his ribs, and the bothered glaze that shrouded the pupils of his eyes. He seemed to be aging more each day, and she wondered if he would last much longer after their journey.

“Anyway, it doesn’t matter what I believe,” Virgil said. “Mankind will be shown the truth time and time again, and they’ll always swing back to the lie.”

“Maybe there is no lie and no truth,” she suggested. “Maybe this is the process we have to succumb to in order to get to the other side.”

Although Virgil nodded, this idea was obviously troubling, even to her. “Then, we will always struggle through the chaos blindly. I truly hope that is not the case.”

“Unfortunately, I have known no other way,” she said.

“Nor have I,” he said. “Though, I am no different than the tormentors of the world.”

“Well, you seem different,” Rae said.

“I understand why you compliment me. You are mostly kind to others, but I’m not sure it helps your case” he said.

Rae laughed and tenderly pressed her fingers against the bruises on her body. Maybe she came off as kind, but it wasn’t the word she would have chosen. She liked to think of herself as open. After all, she wasn’t the docile lamb they all thought of her as being. Like the lion that used to stalk the fields, she had killed before, and she wasn’t hesitant about killing again.

“I murdered my first captor,” Rae confessed. “I was proud of the blood I spilled for my freedom.

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