The Omega Mated To The Four

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The Omega: Mated To The Four

Chapter Ninety Six

The bald was eerily quiet. The smell of burnt wood, blood, and death clung to the air, suffocating in its intensity. I stood in

the middle of what remained of our pack, my fur covered in black blood. Some of it belonged to the Umbrakins, some of it-I wasn't

sure.

I turned, my gaze sweeping over the carnage. The fires Austin had put out had left behind nothing but blackened structures, smoke rising into the night sky like mourning spirits.

I shifted back, my body aching from the effort. I looked around, my heart heavy as

I took in the damage. We had won. But at what cost? Austin reached beside me and here me his shirt to wear.

Eira approached me, her expression grim.

"I've never seen so many of them attack at once," she said. Her usual fierce demeanor was subdued, her dark eyes filled with something Stormi had never seen before-fear. "It wasn't just a raid. This was an extermination attempt."

I swallowed hard, dread curling in my stomach.

"How many survivors?" I asked.

A swirl of shadows appeared beside me, and Isaiah stepped out, his face set in stone. He hesitated before answering, as if the words themselves pained him.

"Almost everyone is gone."

My breath caught in my throat.

Isaiah continued, his voice quieter, as though speaking the truth out loud made it worse. "The Alpha and Luna... they didn't make it."

I barely registered the sharp inhale of Alex behind me, or the way Austin clenched his fists at the news.

I was still processing.

The Alpha and Luna. Dead. Elijah's parents were dead.

They hadn't always been kind to me, but they had been the only stability I had known in my

childhood.

Gone.

Isaiah,

didn't answer right away. Panic gripped

he?"

didn't respond, I didn't wait for

Elijah's scent-charcoal and pine, something

heard Isaiah follow, his shadows swirling around us as he kept

near what remained of the

rather, what used to be the pack

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his shirt and handed it to her. I took it without a

kneeling amidst

back was hunched, his hands clenched into fists against

wasn't moving. He wasn't

of his form unnerved me more than

called softly, stepping

He didn't react.

I hesitated.

This wasn't like him.

opened my mouth to speak again,

the hairs on the back of my neck

I whirled around.

at the edge of the destruction, its body flickering like

tethered to this

it was. The Shadow

been manipulating the Umbrakins, that

slithering through the air like

My muscles coiled, ready to lunge, to attack, to rip this

the Shadow Weaver simply

in my path," it continued, tilting its head in mock amusement. "And when my children release

bared my fangs. “Not if

chuckled, shaking

coals. "You, I will save for last. So you can

I lunged.

claws extended as I called upon

Weaver

air before I could

it left behind was deafening. I stood there,

fires that had

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war. This was