Reborn Omega: Avenge Herself Like an Alpha

Chapter 52 The Pain Is Proof

Henry’s POV

Mate. Mate. I want our mate.

Callen hadn’t stopped screaming in my head since we left the junkyard. He thrashed around like a rabid animal, demanding we forget about Aubrey and go find the powerful Alpha–level mate he was convincert belonged to us.

Over and over–those same words. My temples throbbed from it. I had no interest in this so–called “Alpha mate,” so I did what had to be done. I severed the link with Callen.

At last silence.

Unfortunately, our family’s wolf doctor, Xavier, had left for an errand and hadn’t come back. I tried contacting him through our mental link, but either the distance was too great or he was blocking. I couldn’t reach him.

Then I remembered Aubrey knew medicine herself. I grabbed the first–aid kit and headed toward her room. But the moment I reached her door, I froze.

Damn it.

I was just going to check on Aubrey–not my mate–so why the hell was my heart racing?

Muttering a curse under my breath, I forced myself to calm down and knocked.

No answer.

That blood… what if something had happened?

I opened the door.

dead

across the floor–her bloodstained

She was… showering?

at the banquet when she stripped in front of me to prove

innocence…

snap at her that night. But when I saw those marks all over her skin, my temper

then, the bathroom door

towel. Her wet black hair clung to her pale skin, making

moment her hazy, sapphire–blue eyes

to life–every curve carved to

The Pain

I jerked around, turning my back to her, bracing for

But nothing came.

wrapped herself in a towel and was sentent at thi

but the gash was raw and jagged, the

it,” she said, catching my gaze in the mirror. “aren’t you going to hand

I frowned.

preferred the old Aubrey, the one

she was injured. I shoved aside the feeling

pair of gloves and began treating her wound, but she was too rough. Blood welled up again. staining her pale skin with

I grabbed her

be

sharp. “If you’re going to keep doing this like a butcher,

to say, What’s it got