The Stained Omega by Elle T Jefferson

Ghost stories.

(Anna)

I back out of the tent as carefully as possible so I don’t wake Thomas and Ander. After the cook out I thought it would be a good idea to bring Thomas and a few of his friends out to the forest just past our guard for a little camp out. Now the kids are all tucked away in their tents, we adults can have a little fun, zipping the tent up. I see Fraction, Patrick, Eliza and James all sitting around a small campfire drinking beers. I smile as I watch my family all laugh at something Patrick says, Fraction turns to me and holds his hand out. As soon as I am close enough he pulls me down to him so I’m sitting between his legs.

“Ok, let’s do some adult ghost stories.” Patrick says as he swaps Eliza’s empty beer for a full one.

“Are you trying to get me drunk?” Eliza asks around a laugh.

“Always, kitten.” I smile at them suddenly understanding the inside. joke she was talking about before.

“Wait, Anna won’t of heard The Shalamayne story before.” James and Fraction both groan as Eliza gets all excited, she sits up straighter and moves her hair from her face.

“What’s that?” I ask looking around at them all.

“A story to keep wild shifters in line,” Fraction whispers in my ear.

“If you’re bad enough, The Shalamaynes will come for you,” Fraction, Rick and James all say at the same time before howling with laughter. I

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can’t help but feel like I’m missing out, it’s not like I grew up around these kind of stories.

around at the group, Fractions. arms snake around my waist and he gives

squeeze.

it.” Fraction says to Eliza, I watch James drop back so he’s holding himself up on his arms with his legs spread out in front

to if you have all heard it before,” the last thing I want is to make them all bored when I’ve pretty much forced them all to be here. Eliza waves her hand in the air and clears her throat.

these lands. Apparently this was when they lived in mud huts and instead of Packs they had villages, well apparently then they also had royalty. One Alpha that ruled them all, only back

I can’t help but question the absurd name.

shushes me with a broad smile on his

wasn’t a shifter. She was a human who knew nothing of our world, as he got to know her he found her to be caring and kind. Instead of telling her about his true nature he hid it from her, he would take care of his Alpha duties by dead of night and be a dutiful human husband during the day. It

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I squint my eyes at Eliza not really seeing how this is meant

Eliza stick her tongue out at me so I give her a wide

little wolf.” Fraction k*sses the top of my head, “go on

me as she mentions an Omega and I just roll my eyes. “One night his human wife followed him and saw him entangled with his Omega. She watched as he made love to her over and over again. Hatching a plan she went back to their little hut and created a meal especially for her lover, in the meadow not too far from their home a purple plant grew that she knew her husband was allergic too. Little did she know it was wolfsbane, so when he ate

is a woman scorned story?” I ask as I empty my

his lounge position, for someone who didn’t look interested

walked back to where she had watched her husband with this other woman. She was armed with nothing but a simple silver knife, she had been gifted it by her father on her wedding night. She crept into the hut where the Omega slept and slit her throat, the woman never woke. Confident that justice

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the blood of his mate on his wife and in a blind rage he shifted into his. beast.” I gasp

has killed their other

Fraction mutters as he rests his

his wife the villagers chased him away and tried to save the woman. She was too far gone and soon died but they did manage to save her baby, as the child grew it became clear that he was no shifter but he was also no human. He was something in between, a cross between the two. All the power of a shifter without the animal to hold him back, he spent years learning about his past and his father. They say that his bloodline still goes on today,