The Alpha's Omega Mate-Chapter 92: The fall 2

~Orion’s POV~

"Dahlia, NO!" The words were wrenched out from deep within my soul with an agonising pitch as I watched the woman after my heart fall from the top of the fortress like a heap of bones.

I wasn’t the one who fell but pain exploded in my chest as more anguished cries tore out from my throat, wracking my entire being. Shaking everything that I was.

My knees hit the floor with a loud thud, making my bones rattle, but right now, that was the least of my problems. Right now, I couldn’t even feel the pain spreading in my knees, as all I could feel was the agonizing pain that came with the feeling of my heart being crushed.

Of my soulless body being destroyed.

Panic shook my bones as I tentatively crawled several steps forward... towards the edge of the parapet walk... to peek at her fallen form...and at the damage that may have been done. But I couldn’t bring myself to look. I couldn’t bring myself to see it. To see her. Not when my heart felt like it’s been ripped off my chest, not when it felt as though a crushing weight was resting on my lungs, suffocating me, and threatening to pull me under.

I drew in a shaky breath as I squeezed my eyes shut, and my wolf? He howled within me, his pain sending jolts of electricity through my body as my tears mixed with the rain.

And when I finally gathered enough courage to push forward, to check on Dahlia, a slender arm suddenly wrapped around my torso, and instantly I was acutely aware of the irritating presence beside me. I was suddenly aware of the role she’d played in all of these.

She wanted Dahkia dead.

And now, she has that.

Before I could help myself, an agonized scream tore out from the back of my throat. My body trembled violently, and with shaky hands, I pried myself free from her arms and stumbled forward on wobbly feet— not to the edge of the parapet walk, but down the airy stairs.

"Orion!" Jennifer’s voice snapped harshly, "where do you think you’re going?"

Usually, this was the part where I was supposed to ignore her. The part where I should simply let her be and go save Dahlia, but my grief had twisted something within me. It had morphed my pain into something else... something darker... and relatively ugly. The sound of her voice filled me with so much contempt and rage that thoughtlessly, I marched over to her, my eyes wild.

Jennifer took a frightened step back but if she thinks escaping would save her from me, then she has no idea about what was coming for her.

I snarled; "What have you done?" just as my fingers wrapped around her dainty neck. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Her eyes widened pleadingly before her expression shifted to something just as ugly as her soul was. "What?" She gasped, her eyes bulging as more rain poured down on us, drenching us even to our undergarments. "Did you see me do anything? Was I the one who pushed the clumsy little slave to her doom?"

Her words... they twisted that thing deep inside of me further. It drove the blade deeper than before and I growled; "Jennifer—"

"Enough, Orion!" She snarled, interrupting me. "The wench already knows too much and she wasn’t willing to help. It’s the will of the moon goddess that she has to die this way!"

"It’s not the fucking will of any goddamn goddess and you know it. She slipped because of you! You scared her to her death!"

"I didn’t!"

Usually, the desperation in Jennifer’s voice should have been enough to get me to stop hurting her. Hell, even her pitiable expression would’ve easily gotten under my skin, but I knew better. I’ve seen better. My fingers flexed around her neck, going tighter as the blood drained from her face and her eyes rolled upwards as if suffocated, but that didn’t deter me. It didn’t sate the growing rage bubbling up at the pit of my stomach. So I yelled;

"What were you thinking would happen when you confronted her with something as huge as killing Zarek? Were you thinking she’d jump at the offer, knowing fully well that it means her execution?!" My voice shook the still air and usually it would’ve been enough to make lesser men cower, but Jennifer simply squared her shoulders, the glint in her eyes just as sparkly as ever.

She seemed unfazed. Unbothered. Like she had no care in the world that Dahlia had just fallen to her death, and that made me mad. It infuriated me more than I already was.

My wolf howled again

Go save her! She might survive it.

But she’s an Omega!

Still, go check!

Tears glazed my eyes as I let go of Jennifer and turned away from her, but before I could go any further, her voice called out to me, halting my movements. She snarled;

"And what do you think you’re trying to do?!"

I bared my teeth in rage as I spun around, hissing under my breath; "To save her!"

Jennifer snorted. "Now, I’ve just realized that you’re just as dumb as Zarek!" She spat, causing my eyes to widen at the direct insult.

I opened my mouth in rage, preparing myself to reply to her with something just as cutting when she dismissively waved her hands in my face and gritted out; "Dahlia knows our secret now. If you save her, that means letting our secret get out, but if you don’t, it remains safe with us."

It took me a moment for her words to finally register in my head, and when it did, a shudder ran up my spine. "No, no... you’re not implying that..."

"Yes, I’m implying just that!" She snarled irritatedly. "I’m implying that we let her die. If we do as much as try to save her now, she’ll be last seen with us. Her blood will be on our hands and tongues will wag. They’ll want to know what happened. They’ll want to know why she was up here with us and how she ended up falling!"

"No."

"And even if she survives, do you think she’ll ever forgive you? Do you think she’ll ever look at you the same after knowing that you’d planned with me to take her out? To frame her?"

My lips trembled. I stuttered; "B-but I didn’t."

"Well no one cares about that anymore! She saw you with me. She heard our conversations, and trust me, she doesn’t trust you anymore!" Jennifer yelled over the now deafening sound of raindrops falling all around us.

Just then, lightning split the sky and the sound of thunder so loud and so fierce rumbled through the air. It was so fierce and so eerie that I could swear I felt the ground shake underneath my feet.

My eyes snapped up to Jennifer’s and I shook my head. "If she died, her blood would still be on her hands."

"But no one would know." She quickly supplied, causing my eyes to slack open. My jaws dropped.

This isn’t... this wasn’t...

Shakily, I moved over to the edge of the parapet walk, and when I glanced down at the floor below, my blood ran cold.

Dahlia was indeed there. In the pouring rain, looking as though she was asleep if not for the twisted angle her body was sprawled in on the floor. Her limbs seemed broken in weird angles and the blood pooling around her was so much... and so dark, the scene looked like something straight out of those grotesque horror stories.

Her usual pale skin appeared ashen and her light was gone. Hades, even her usual fiery hair looked brown from up here.

My Dahlia was gone.

My heart bled.

A howl I couldn’t control slipped past my lips as I fell to the floor with Jennifer standing behind me.

The latter didn’t seem affected by whatever was happening, and if anything, she looked sated... happy.

And it made me want to kill her.