Frantic (The Omegaborn Trilogy 2)

Epilogue

Triss

It took several days for us to receive word on the current state of the city. Philip Savile, the city leader, had taken back control. With the resources at his disposal, it hadn’t been too difficult to reestablish order. His beta army had been far too strong against the much smaller numbers of alphas and omegas. Unaffected by the scent of omegas in heat, they’d been able to coordinate a deliberate takedown of the distracted alphas. They’d targeted the stronger alpha population first, who were too busy fucking omegas in heat or fighting each other over the right to claim one than to mount any sort of strategic response. The beta army used superior firepower and killed a fair number of aggressive alphas in the process. In addition, they’d put down many alpha and omega pairs with the use of nonlethal weapons such as darts laced with sedatives and electric powered batons meant to stun and incapacitate those who fought against them. The alphas and omegas hadn’t stood a chance.

As a result, the alphas had been banished from the city. A few had crossed our path and informed us of everything that had happened in the time since we left. We fed them and then they had continued on in search of a new home.

In that time, my three alphas and I had started to build a home in the wilds. We picked a quiet place close to a waterfall and fairly deep swimming hole. We created our own pack and survived out in the wilds together.

I felt loved and cared for, but I never stopped thinking about the women of the Omegaborn. None of the alphas who had journeyed and rested at our shelter had known what happened to them. It wore on me.

I had vowed to help them escape and still, they lay trapped within the domed walls of Tharia. My alphas sensed my disquiet and tried to help alleviate my woes by keeping me busy, by filling me with their cocks and teaching me different survival tactics, such as making fire, gathering plant life, or hunting game, but still the women of the Omegaborn were never far from my thoughts.

One late afternoon, I had wandered off to the swimming hole and had shed my clothes and plunged into the water’s chilly depths. Floating on the water, I’d stared up into the clouds in the bright blue sky, wondering what I could do to help the omegas who had been left behind.

When the sun dipped below the treetops, I swam back to shore and was just pulling on my pants and vest when a twig cracked not far in the distance. I stiffened and lifted my head, only to catch the gaze of a very familiar-looking pair of eyes. My heart dropped.

“Ellie,” I whispered.

She smiled and emerged out of the bushes.

“How did you find me?” I asked quietly, still staring at her in disbelief. “More important, how did you get out?” Rushing forward, I embraced her in a solid embrace before she could form any semblance of an answer. I was so relieved to see her safe and unharmed. Mostly, I was just happy to see that she was alive.

When I finally let her go, the two of us sat down together and I noticed then that there was a single solitary man watching us.

“Who’s that?” I asked, my eyes watching him warily.

“That’s my alpha. His name is Ehsan and he’s from the city. He helped me to find you by your scent, using this,” she answered, holding up one of the pieces of clothing I’d worn when I’d stayed in her apartment. It was the headscarf that had hidden my hair from the guards of the city. I turned back to the man and narrowed my eyes, ready to defend Ellie with my life.

“You’re okay? He’s taking care of you? He doesn’t hurt you?” I asked. Ehsan growled softly in response to my question and I rolled my upper lip. Typical alpha then, I thought.

She blushed.

“He takes care of me,” she whispered, and Ehsan chuckled in amusement.

“I more than take care of you Ellie,” he murmured, and she shifted uncomfortably before me, almost as though it pained her to sit down. My eyes looked back and forth between them, highly suspicious that Ellie had already spent a significant amount of time over his knee. So, I wasn’t the only one who got spanked by her alpha.

Quickly, I changed the subject and asked about the omegas. Where they were, what had happened to them and the flush retreated from her cheeks, only to be replaced with a quiet anger. She still fidgeted though, maneuvering herself so that she sat on her heels instead of the hard rock beneath us.

“After the beta army took control of the city, they quickly realized that the suppressant no longer worked on us. The alphas remained strong and acting on instincts, so they thought it best to banish the alphas in hopes that they would either fight or die out here in the wilds. All of the newly discovered omegas, as well as the Omegaborn, have been forced back into the sanctuary and things are far worse than before. Many of them had to suffer through their heats without an alpha’s touch,” Ellie explained, and my own blood began to boil with anger. I didn’t answer and she continued.

“With the help of both Ehsan and Nikki, they broke me out of the city in hopes of finding you,” she continued.

“I didn’t think Nikki would give up. She’s too proud, too much of a leader to watch others suffer under the tyranny of the city, locked behind the walls of the omega sanctuary for the rest of her days,” I answered, and Ellie nodded in agreement.

“You’re right. She sacrificed a lot to get me out and I fear for her if she got caught doing it. I don’t know what they’d do to her if they found out that she was the source of so much of what happened back there,” she added.

“Why did Nikki want you to find me?” I asked then, wondering what she possibly thought I could do at this point.

Ellie licked her lips, nervously glancing at me and then back at the ground.

“She wants you to lead an attack on the city. If you could gather an army of alphas from here in the wilds and those that had been banished from the city, along with anyone else that wanted to join with us, we could fight back. The omegas would aid in the battle by planning an uprising at the same time from the inside. If we all work together, we could free the Omegaborn, once and for all,” Ellie replied.

Behind us, Ravick cleared his throat. I turned to see Lothgar and Garret by his side.

“Well then, we have work to do,” Ravick replied, setting his mouth in a firm line. Garret and Lothgar dropped their hands and curled their hands around the bases of their swords.

It was decided then. We were going to war.

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The End