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

were scattered across the floor–her bloodstained jacket, a black bra–trailing

She was… showering?

mind betrayed me, replaying that night at the banquet when she stripped

innocence…

hadn’t meant to snap at her that night. But when I saw those marks all over her skin, my temper just

then, the bathroom door

wet black hair clung to her pale skin, making the bloody

hazy, sapphire–blue eyes met mine,

life–every curve carved to perfection. A living Venus, cold and

52 The Pain

back to her, bracing

But nothing came.

glanced over my shoulder, she had already wrapped herself in a towel and

but the gash was raw and jagged, the edges peeled

brought it,” she said, catching my gaze in

I frowned.

couldn’t explain. I almost preferred the old Aubrey, the one

was injured. I shoved aside the

she was too rough. Blood welled up again.

thinking, I

be

to keep doing this like a butcher, I’ll

gave me a look that seemed to say, What’s it got to