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.

escaped her tightly sealed

her arm, my voice

you need to bite

torturing

up, and there it was–an unmistakable flicker of amusement in her tear–glossed

me, she said softly, “why don’t you kiss

stumbled.

I could stop myself, I

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she raised her gloved fingers and gently pressed them

and wicked, a little

very obedient tonight, Alpha. Did you fall for

I froze.

Fall for her?

looked right at me and gave a slow, knowing

then why did you

“I…”

frowned hard,

could come up

she gave one

for me.

the one who pushes others away. But now someone who once loved you more than life itself–doesn’t want you anymore. It’s a challenge to your pride. You don’t like being abandoned. So, you

was brutal. Too close to

words cut deep, I knew–this wasn’t just wounded pride. What I felt

her. I wanted her beneath me. I wanted to break through that armor, see her come undone beneath me. I wanted to see those piercing eyes mist over with desire–because

The thought startled me.

I wanted her.

of guilt. Not out of some bruised

I wanted her.

couldn’t say it aloud. All I could manage was a

me do