Reborn Omega: Avenge Herself Like an Alpha

Chapter 246 The Weight of Pain

Third Person POV

“Maybe it’s a terrible metaphor, but just remember this–maybe I’m built for suffering. I actually feel like I’m truly alive only when I’m in pain.”

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Alpha Henry froze, staring into Aubrey’s brilliant starry eyes that shimmered with a strange light.

“Can you imagine it? I actually think pain is the only thing that feels real. Isn’t that terrifying?”

Though she smiled, Henry felt an unshakable heaviness deep in his chest. Instinctively, he pulled her into his arms, his brow furrowed for a long time before he asked in a voice barely above a whisper.

“Can I know what you went through–what I don’t know about?”

say that It was a question he had wanted to ask for so long, but never dared. Now, hearing her only pain felt real made him realize–whatever she had endured when he wasn’t there for her, it was more crushing than anything he could imagine.

What could have been worse than an incurable illness?

Henry couldn’t fathom it.

Aubrey glanced at him, her usually cold, delicate features softening with a faint, elusive smile.

“It was terrifying–so terrifying that many times I thought I

his dissatisfaction with that answer, but Aubrey only let out a small laugh and

know why I’m good

made Henry instinctively hold

You’ve never hurt

together as his eyes dropped to hers, filled

I have hurt

most about himself. Once, long ago, he had humiliated her–over and over, mercilessly. Yet it was as

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Aubrey really

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over the stripes of his dress shirt as

persecution and greed she had suffered from others, Henry’s

smile. “And those humiliations–I brought them on myself. I’m grateful you never really crossed the line. That’s

he rasped,

what horrors had others done to her, that simply not harming her made someone the best existence in her eyes? Henry dared

so badly that not a shred of her past