CRESCENT
Present - Anarchy
Silence weighed on me like a blanket of lead.
I was numb, having lain here in this cramped bed for hours. Sprawled out, face down at my side, was Sin. And Karma was curled up beside me, arms still trapping me in place. The room was still but for the rise and fall of his chest.
My fingers brushed his cheek, pressed so tight against me as he held on.
So intense. So protective.
And the truth was, I’d never felt so safe.
But he was gone. The smile. The beauty. The person within.
Corrupted.
Sin said he would come back, but I didn’t think that was true.
I knew they were desperate to keep me calm, but he’d been much less confident when I’d overheard him talking to Phantom. It was making them a target on top of everything else, and if he didn’t understand what corruption was, then he didn’t know what a risk I was. I was putting Phantom at risk, too.
A tear slid down my cheek.
Sin might be an omega, but he didn’t know how weak I was. When I’d been in the bathroom with Karma, we’d been so close. He’d been smiling and I’d… I’d let go.
Beneath the stream of hot water, I’d cracked, filled with lust. My palm had pressed to his chest and I’d…
I shut my eyes.
Never before had I been possessed with suchevil.
That was why he’d gone mad—I knew it.
I wondered what Sin would have thought of me getting intimate with Karma so quickly?
There was no way he wouldn’t be shocked by such debauchery.
He was strong, he provided for his pack, did things I’d never be able to, and he obviously knew about his designation; plus he wasn’t a gold pack.
It had never occurred to me that I’d be matched with an omega. They didn’t talk about omega pairings at the Convent, or male omegas at all. Only female gold packs lived with the Sisters, and we were only spoken to about alpha mates, as if there were something secret about omega scent matches.
But when Sin had told me he was an omega… I’d never felt so elated in my life. In another world, where this could work out, maybe he could teach me how to be better.
They were fighting for their lives in here, and I was destroying them.
I jumped as I felt another aura burst into the air, faint, but present.
From the next dorm?
Why did an alpha keep doing that?
It wasn’t quiet, and something told me this place never was. I could hear the howls of insanity, distant and far, the low echoing screams. The dull bangs, as if someone was smashing their body against a metal wall.
The others in the room were sleeping through everything, which indicated it was normal.
My eyes drifted to the door with the little window on it. Occasionally, I’d see a flash of movement from my vantage. Then nothing.
Another of them for me to break.