His Rebellious Omega (The Royal Omegas Book 3) by P. Jameson & Kristen Strassel

Author:P. Jameson & Kristen Strassel [Jameson, P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-13T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Cassian

I paced the small room in the omega barracks, trying to burn off the remains of the drug I was given before June and the beta, Alix, pried six goddamned bullets from my healing chest. A type of mead laced with something that made my wolf cringe but did far worse to omegas… and the one beta who had tried it.

The juice they called it for slang.

Juice my ass.

“It took me six weeks to get clean,” Alix murmured. “June, eight. And here, you are. Fine after just a few hours.”

June nodded. “This is good. There’s no time to waste.”

Back and forth, back and forth. Each step brought me out of the haze, made my mind clearer.

My wolf was okay, my body was healed. My heart however, was crawling with worry over Charolet. June assured me she was safe and sleeping somewhere. But what if she’d been given the same mead?

“Tell me again what it does to omegas.”

“It starts out kind of nice,” June sighed, her voice sounding haunted. “You feel good. Fulfilled. Like when you’ve had a big meal, which is so rare in the Badlands, that feeling.” She shook her head. “But it’s more than that. You feel energized. Strong. Vibrant, when before you were only dull. It sharpens your senses.”

“It takes a few doses for the addiction to kick in,” Alix said.

“Doses?”

“Transfusions. They hook you up to a machine and pump you full of that shit.”

“You let them do that to you?”

Alix tossed out a wry smile, appearing older than I’d thought. “Yeah. You want it. It feels good. Didn’t you think it felt good, alpha?”

“No.” I shook out my shoulders. “It felt unnatural. It felt…”

Alix raised an eyebrow. “Powerful?”

I ignored that and turned back to June. “Continue.”

“Well, after a few trips to the chairs—”

“Chairs?”

“That’s what we call the transfusion machines.”

“Oh.” God. If Charolet was hooked up to one of those chairs—

“I know what you’re thinking,” June said. “But she won’t be given a transfusion yet. She was shot with a tranquilizer. She’ll be out for a day at least.”

I breathed a sigh of relief that threatened to bring me to my knees. If my omega was sleeping, she’d be safe from the juice.

“Go on,” I ground out, returning to my pacing.

“After a few trips to the chairs, your body starts to change.”

“The mutants?”

June shook her head. “Not like that. Not yet. That’s the next level. Only the most promising candidates become Elite. No, your body changes on the inside. Something happens to our animals. It represses them somehow, leaving them partially dormant. Much like…”

“Like the unmated alpha beasts.” Like his own animal that couldn’t shift.

“And the betas,” Alix added.

“But even though we don’t physically shift, our beasts are very much alive inside.”

“Ours too,” June continued. “The animal fights the drug while the human becomes addicted.” I remembered the way Jacoby’s eyes changed. The crazed expression just before he pulled the gun on Charolet. “The ones who fight hard enough, and prove their strength, move on to become Elite.

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