Chapter 4: The Proud Omega

Aurora's POV

As I had predicted, Faith had Jessica on her back within the first five minutes of training. Jessica’s face was burning red while Faith remained calm and smiled. She was enjoying herself, and match after match seemed to get shorter and shorter. Faith was quick and calculated with her movements; training with her parents and Dillion was finally starting to pay off.

“Miss Rogers, thank you. Your brother told me that you were quick on your feet. It’s a shame Robin didn’t train you to your full potential.”

The compliment had Faith beaming from ear to ear as she stepped off the mat and made her way over to me.

“Have I told you lately how much I love you?”

She shrugged her shoulders and giggled in response. She sat on the grass beside me and pretended to wipe fake sweat from her forehead.

“Do you still want to learn from the best?” Alpha Liam asked. He was taunting her, baiting her into quitting and knowing Jessica’s pride, she’d tell him she wanted to train more.

As if reading my thoughts, Jessica demanded another partner, one that was on even playing fields with her. She claimed that because Faith’s family were warriors, she had the upper hand, which technically wasn’t wrong.

“Aurora, right?”

My heart stopped at the sound of my name. I looked at him, his gray eyes encouraging me to stand and take a place on the mat. I had never been in a fight before; I just took my mother’s word that we weren’t that good at them.

“This should be interesting,” Beta Alexander murmured.

Alpha Liam looked at him and the smile that once covered the beta’s face had disappeared. I looked at the worried expression on Dillion’s face and I smiled softly. For eighteen years, I had successfully avoided getting into a fight that I may lose, and here I was standing across from the biggest enemy.

“Let’s see if you can hold your own against an Omega.”

Jessica quickly lunged for me, and I moved out of the way. I wasn’t sure how I knew what to do next, but my brain told me to grab her arm and push her forward.

“We all know you’re going to lose Dawn, just accept it.”

Her words only seemed to fuel the anger that I already had inside. I wanted to make her pay for everything that she had ever said about me and my mother. I wanted her to pay for the rumors her parents had spread about my mother. If I was going to lose this fight, the least I can do is give it my all.

Jessica howled in frustration before lunging at me again, this time instead of running from her attack I ran toward it. I grabbed her arm and leaped into the air, my legs snaking around her neck as I forced her onto the mat. Holding my knees together I began to squeeze her windpipe.

I felt Jessica’s throat pulsing between my thighs, she was gasping for breath. I could feel all the anger from over the years accumulating. I could feel and hear her taunting me over and over again about my ranking and my lack of a father.

“Aurora, stop.”

The voice was soothing to my ears and instantly calmed me. I looked from Jessica’s gasping body and looked up at those gray eyes. It was him. He was in my head, talking to me and calming me.

“Let her go, you’re killing her.”

He took slow steps toward me; his left hand was signaling everyone else to stop moving. I looked away from his gray eyes to Jessica who was staring up at me, the fear inside her brown eyes pulsating. I removed my legs from around her neck and she scrambled away from me, attempting to catch her breath.

“Damn girl, I didn’t know you could fight like that,” Faith said. I was just as shocked. She had an impressed look on her face as she held her hand out for me to take. I took her hand reluctantly and got off the mat.

“Damn Omega, I thought they said your kind was weak,” Alexander said. He held Jessica’s shaking body in his arms which caused a grimace from Dillion. He must think I’m a monster now. I rolled my eyes at the thought and looked at the Alpha. His gray eyes softened at me and for a split second, I thought I saw pride.

“Meet me in my office when all this is sorted,” the Alpha mind linked me. His voice didn’t indicate any emotions. There wasn’t a smile or grimace on his beautifully sculpted face. I nodded, letting him know I got the message as he turned his back to all of us and went inside the pack house.

“I knew she was going to win, plus Jess had it coming,” Faith defended.

Alexander chuckled before leaving with Jessica, most likely going to the infirmary. Jessica didn’t have any scars or bruising, and wolves healed faster than the average human, but I assumed it was for a precaution.

Dillion slowly stepped closer once the Beta was gone. His face stared blankly at the direction that they had both left.

“Earth to Dillion,” Faith said, snapping her fingers in his face. He shook his head and blinked profusely, most likely trying to wrap his head around what just happened. I know I was.

“Aurora, my office. NOW!” Alpha Liam roared in my head.

As much as I hated when people called me by that name for some reason when he did it was a turn-on. I placed my hand on my head trying to ease the starting sighs of a headache. Christ, this man was determined to give me a major headache.

“I have to go; I think I’m in serious trouble for nearly suffocating Jessica,” I explained as I walked to the pack house. Faith and Dillion nodded but didn’t say anything further. I remember Faith telling me something about the Alpha and his disdain for lateness.

I pulled open the back door of the pack house and immediately gasped. The house was beautiful. There were pictures of members and previous Alpha and their Luna spread across the walls. The downstairs was a healthy balance between mahogany walls and dark gray furniture. The furniture reminded me of the Alpha’s eyes whenever he looked at me.

A small smile tugged at the corners of my mouth. I licked my lips and continued to walk inside the pack house, my hands grazing the picture frames as I walked past them.

“I do believe I said in my office.” His voice startled me from the entrance of his office. Every time he spoke, I was always taken aback by how sexy he sounded. He would often switch from demanding to tender, especially when it concerned me.

“I’m sorry, I got distracted. This place is beautiful, and I’ve only seen this one room,” I admitted.

I didn’t find the need to lie to him, I had been caught browsing, and in my defense, it wasn’t my fault. I had been inside a place that was this grand, besides the house we lived in now. My mother didn’t come from money and having a child at sixteen wasn’t the best move to save her money either.

“Do you live here?” I found myself asking. I was curious about him; all I knew was that he killed my Alpha, and he hated tardy people.

“Yes, me and my grandmother.”

Grandmother. I remember him saying something about his grandmother, but my memory wasn’t the best. I had been more consumed by those gray eyes than anything else.

“Where are your parents?”

The words flowed easily, and I couldn’t understand why. I should be terrified of this man and yet I felt oddly at peace in his presence. His eyes shifted to a darker shade of gray; whatever happened to his parents wasn’t good and I struck a nerve.

“I called you in here to talk to you about what happened during training,” he said.

I don’t know what he expected me to say about that. I was still trying to figure out what happened. There should have been no reason that I beat Jessica, but I did, and I had no explanation for why or how.

“I don’t know how I did it,” I whispered, staring at my hands. All my life I had been prevented from fighting because I was told I would automatically lose and yet I won today.

“Your technique is sloppy and uncoordinated,” he said.

I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms over my chest. I had forgotten that the only thing I wore was a sports bra until his gaze flickered to my breasts. They seemed to turn darker before he turned his gaze away. I was no idiot to my body; I was fuller than the other wolves and if I hadn’t been an Omega, I would’ve gotten more attention. No one wants to mate with an Omega, it practically doomed their child for failure in battles.

“It’s not my fault,” I protested. My voice came out small and whiny and I almost cringed at the sound. I placed a hand on my neck and cleared my throat.

“Will you shut up for one second? I think it’s because you’ve never trained before, and I’d like to change that. You’ve got great potential, Aurora, to be stronger and I want to help you get there.”

“Stronger how?”

He returned his gaze to me, his eyes back to a stable shade of gray. They were soft again, and with the look he was giving me right now, I would give him anything that he asked for.

“I want to train you in private. I want to see just how far I can push you and how far you are willing to push yourself.”

Train me? He thought that I could be more than an Omega. He believed that I could be stronger and that even though my rank was the lowest I could improve and be better.

“You don’t have to decide now but decide soon. As I said before, a pack is as strong as its weakest link.”

“And your pack has no weak links,” I finished.

A flicker of pride surfaced in his eyes and then it was gone, but it was too late. I felt a surge of pride within myself. There was no one in the history of Omegas who had an Alpha believe that they could be more. The more I trained, the stronger I could be, and the better life could be for me and my mother.

Harda*s or not, my mother might have been right about the Alpha. He wasn’t all bad.