Reborn Omega: Avenge Herself Like an Alpha

Chapter 53 Closer to the Edge

Henry’s POV

Something was wrong with Aubrey.

*** Finished

When I returned to her room with the anesthetic, she had already begun stitching herself up. I watched, frozen, as the needle pierced her skin–her brows knitting in pain, but her lips twisting into something disturbingly close to a smile. Pain and pleasure tangled across her face in a way that made my spine go cold.

There was no doubt she was hurting. I could see it in the way her lips pressed tightly together every time the needle sank into her flesh. Each bloody pull of thread made her tremble slightly.

She wasn’t numb–she was just enduring it.

That realization unsettled me more than I cared to admit. This wasn’t the Aubrey I used to know. She used to be stubborn, fragile, proud–but still breakable. Now? Every trace of weakness had vanished. What was left was sharp and unyielding.

And it all started after that night. The night I found her covered in bruises. What exactly had happened to make her change so completely?

If I’d paid more attention… If I’d noticed sooner… would she still have ended

up

like this?

My chest tightened with guilt. A life sentence and mutilation almost felt like too light a punishment for those two animals.

“If it hurts that much, just use the anesthetic.”

I handed her the syringe. I couldn’t stand watching her do this to herself any longer.

Her forehead was damp with sweat, and her eyes shimmered with the haze of pain. When she looked up at me, it knocked the breath from my lungs.

“No need.”

She kept stitching, and I didn’t stop her. I just sat there, silently watching every movement of the needle as it slipped through her torn skin. For a moment, it felt like the pain was mine.

whimper escaped her tightly sealed lips–and I couldn’t

and grabbed her arm, my

you need to bite something,

torturing yourself

up, and there it was–an

you’re that worried about me, she said softly, “why don’t you

thoughts stumbled. My body

stop myself, I leaned down

12 Aug

Closer

she raised her

wicked, a little

tonight, Alpha.

I froze.

Fall for her?

looked right at me and

me, then why did you try to

“I…”

hard, at a

come up with

she gave one

for me.

who once loved you more than life itself–doesn’t want you anymore. It’s a

Too close to

I knew–this wasn’t just wounded pride. What I felt was deeper,

that armor, see her come undone beneath me. I wanted to see those piercing eyes mist over

The thought startled me.

I wanted her.

Not out of some bruised

I wanted her.

All I could manage was a rough, strangled

do the