Bistas_She

Cassia Phoenix always dreamed her mate would be her refuge—the one to give her the home she never had, the life she craved. But fate is cruel, and dreams are lies wrapped in pretty promises.

When she finally finds her mate, it’s not salvation. It’s a sentence. 

He’s already claimed by another, and she's nothing more than a mistake he’s determined to erase. Every day, he reminds her that she is unwanted. Unworthy. Unloved.

Being an omega, She spent her life on the fringes of her pack, invisible and expendable. But this? This is worse. 

So she runs.

To Winter Lake, a place that shouldn’t exist, where the rules of the world don’t apply. There, she might find a sliver of peace—if her mate doesn’t hunt her down, and if the powerful alpha of this forbidden pack doesn’t discover the truth about who she is. About what she is.

Staying is dangerous. Impossible, even. But then there’s him. The brown-eyed shifter who saves her from the storm, whose strength and promises make her question everything she thought she knew about fate, loyalty, and belonging. He makes her want to stay. To fight. To believe.

But when she’s spent her entire life running, how does she stop?

Cassia: The Alpha King's Outcast Omega

All the rest of the day, I try and repeatedly fail to convince Lucian to let me call off this fight before it ends in his death, but Lucian is gentle but firm. He refuses to be convinced of anything. The only things he wants to talk about are the plans for the nursery and what I want to eat for lunch and dinner.

The hours tick by far faster than I want them to, and as the sky darkens, his pack arrives, Orion included. As I pace the kitchen, they sit eating Chinese takeout at the dining table while talking about going for a pack run over the weekend.

I struggle to understand how plans like a pack run could take precedence over this looming fight, a fight that will end in Lucian's death.

"Lucian, please. I don't want you to do this," I say to him as we leave for the clearing that night.

I Don't Want To Lose You