Omega Bound Chapter 155

Ayla

I am awakened being shaken from the most x-rated dream of Thane I have ever had. These pregnancy hormones are running rampant or maybe it's just me. I don't know....he doesn't care.

"What...what is going on?" I ask confused, sitting up and working the painful creak out of my neck.

"We're almost there. And you might want to wipe that drool off of your mouth." Raven informs me and I wipe my chin.

We pull up the a huge building surrounded by trees and smaller outbuildings. Part of the building is burnt. I don't see any shifters at all as Raven creeps the car up. "How did you know how to find this place? I look around.

"I swiped Thane's map from his office. It was just laying out in his desk drawer. So weird." she shrugs, turning away from me.

"Yes, so weird for his map to be in his desk drawer where anyone could take it." I shake my head at her. I find her audacity humorous.

"How do you feel?" She asks, turning to me. How did I feel?

"I don't think there are words for what I am feeling. It's been years since I've seen it from the outside. I only tried to escape a few times before I gave up." I state, replaying my last escape attempt as I stared at the building, causing me to shudder.

"You didn't give up. You shifted to self-preservation. There is a difference." Raven says while staring at the building herself.

"I didn’t want to live. I often thought about dying." I informed her.

"You did want to live because you are still here." Raven turns to me again, her face emotionless.

"I'm here because Thane got me out."

"You got yourself out by staying alive." She counters.

"What is the point of this conversation?" I ask confused.

"I don't know. Maybe I want you to switch from accepting what happened to you to doing something about it. Maybe this whole thing is pointless. Maybe you need to deal with emotions that you haven't dealt with that you need to get out before taking the Luna roll. Maybe I brought you here because you should start this revenge tour. Taking down the ring..taking down your..... whatever you want to call Mikhail. It starts here...with you...IF it was me...I would start here." Raven nods, something like fire flashes in her eyes. I feel a powerful aura off her. I realize her alpha aura.

"Phase one of healing and getting your revenge that you deserve and more importantly...NEED...is getting rid of this shit hole. Can you, do it?" I stare at the building before realizing Raven is quiet, still waiting for an answer. I think in my heart of hearts, I know that if I asked Raven she would turn around and drive me back. I think this trip was more about her running from her emotions she needs to deal with and less of me starting my healing here, but maybe we can do both one and then the other. I don't know.

I feel a sick feeling in my stomach, but also a desire to see the inside again. Call it sick, but I am curious to see what is left.

"Not what is left. What you overcame. What you came through. What you prospered from." Raven nods at me, encouraging my decision. I must have said my previous statement outloud.

I tug on the mating bond a little and send a little love through the bond. I don't think I have done anything wrong.....yet by not telling Thane what we are doing. I mind-linked him that Raven and I were 'bonding' but I think that he will rage when he discovers the truth. Not at me, but her. Maybe a little at me, which I don't want but I know it is out of protection. Maybe Cyrus can help us take the heat off the whole situation. A distraction? He was good at those.

"I'm scared that Thane is going to want to kill you. He's been on edge lately." I whispered, looking over to see her smiling.

"I would enjoy the fight." Raven looks at me with a hint of blood lust in her eyes. That same look Cyrus gets.

"Is that why you and Cyrus go back and forth so much? You two enjoy the fight?" I ask.

"We're not talking about us." Raven states flatly.

"Yet. A word you forgot to add." I interrupt.

"Why am I hearing this again?" she asks me, clearly frustrated. I am missing something.

"Nevermind. If you aren't going to suffocate and die, let's exit the car." Raven opens her door, getting out and scanning the area.

"It's a panic attack. Not suffocation...nevermind." I say, taking a step toward the big compound. Snow covers the ground that once was littered with bodies. Bodies of guards and disgusting alpha's that dare take what wasn't theirs in every sense. They deserve what they got.

We walked into the compound, and I immediately see blood in the hallways, papers and bullet casings scattered everywhere. Chairs are overturned; lab tables are out in the hall. There is scattered rocks and debris from where the door was blown. Ceiling tiles and wires hang from the ceiling and lights flicker. Nothing frightening here at all.

"Wow. This place looks like a massacre happened here." Raven whispers as we walk through.

"I don't remember any of it. Thane drugged me."

"How romantic." Raven states.

"I'm serious." I inform her, in case she thinks I was joking.

"I know. So was I." I make what I am sure is an odd frowny/pouty face while contemplating her statement.

"Okay then..that's...okay." I turn away, trying to hide my expression. I'm not sure what to think of her statement.

I start to walk down the back hall and I immediately feel my heart rate kick up and my throat starts to tighten. I'm not sure I can walk any further. I feel a tug in my chest letting me know that Thane is feeling my panic. I take a deep breath and tug back on the mating bond thread and send reassuring feelings through it. I was okay. I can do this.

"What don't you want to see in this hallway?" Raven asks, stepping next to me.

"Heat clinic rooms." I whisper.

"Explain." She requests from me, not demanding, but it's clear she won't accept not getting an explanation.

I walk down and step into the doorway of the first room. The table with all its straps remains in here. The mirror in the wall. The cold tile floor and walls. I hate this place.

"They would inject me with a drug to induce a heat. When I was out of my mind, alphas would use me however they wanted." I clench my teeth together hard. My skin bristles as Aramana snarls in my head, clawing trying to get out. She is full of rage, having to see my memories as they start to play in my mind here. Each one making me increasingly angry and full of a pain rising from deep within my soul.