Omega Bound Chapter 276

Cyrus

Raven’s scream still echoes in my skull. I saw that blade sink into her stomach. Saw her fold like the world was caving in around me. And then I lost it. I tore through bodies like meat, wolves screaming as I split them open with bare hands and teeth. Eight on me? Ten? Didn’t matter. They fell, and I climbed their corpses to get to her.

Fireball is mine. She will always be mine. Every dead shifter here needs to be thrown into a wood chipper for taking her from me.

Why don’t I own a wood chipper?

“Stay with me, fireball. Don’t you dare fucking leave me,” I growled, my voice cracking in a way that would’ve made me laugh if I wasn’t choking on it. “I’ll stitch you with my teeth if I have to. I’ll staple your guts together, whatever it takes.”

And then she smiled at me. The insane, stubborn smile of my mate. “Cyrus,” voice low but still fierce, “I’m okay. I love you. And I’m so damn glad you shot that tracker in my ass.”

I almost laughed, choking on rain and blood. “That’s right, fireball. My feral little psycho. You dragged us straight to Ayla, dragged me straight to you. You turned this slaughterhouse into hope.” My grin split wide, manic, blood on my teeth. “You make me proud, Raven. You were unstoppable.” My chest burned like it was splitting open. The amount of love and feral need for each other throbs in the bond and feels like my chest could explode.

Mikhail. That scrawny, hollow-eyed bastard with white hair, stumbling forward through the carnage. He looked like a corpse that refused to lie down. I don’t trust any shifter outside of our circle and nobody completely but Raven.

Having this shifter around is going to piss me off because I’m angry just looking at him. He wears the face of the villain..One of many.... I have no idea who did what, and it would just be easier to kill them all and be done with it.

But family....bonding.....all that shit.....I just want to go home and rail my mate.

Repeatedly, and find our fur baby.

“Eric was in that room when Ayla’s power exploded!” Thane roared, his aura slamming into every wolf within earshot. “Until we see his body, we assume he’s alive. Assume he’s hunting her. Assume he’s hunting all of us.” The packs froze Eric.....The bastard who laid hands on my Luna, who dared touch my mate.

My lips peeled back in a grin too sharp to be sane. Good. Let him be alive. That just means I get to kill him twice.

“Load up, ladies!” Rhonda barked, slapping the hood of her little blue car like it was a warhorse. “We’re hunting that bastard Eric!”

Mikhail crouched toward Raven, his hand glowing faintly with healing power. I snarled, baring my teeth, ready to gut him alive. “You touch her and she doesn’t walk away whole, I swear I’ll peel your skin off and make you eat it while I wear your spine as a necklace.”

Raven groaned, rolling her eyes even as her body was already knitting together with shifter speed. “Cyrus, for fuck’s sake. I’m healing already.” Her gaze flicked to Mikhail, sharp despite her weakness. “And just because you help me doesn’t mean I owe you anything.”

Mikhail’s voice was quiet, “Wouldn’t expect you to. This is the first time I’ve been outside in ten years.”

“I’ll still kill you myself if I have to.” Fireball threatens Mikhail, reminding me I need to get this story later. twice.

He gestured for me to lift my hands from her wound. I did, and he quickly placed his over it. Blood surged out around his palm, soaking into the mud as if her life was trying to escape me. I nearly ripped his arm off right there, but then his skin lit up soft at first, then blazing white. The light spread from his hand into Raven’s wound, sinking past torn flesh and muscle, forcing the bleeding to slow, knitting her body back together.

Mikhail pushed himself up from the ground. “I’m going to see to others. Thank you for freeing me, Raven.”

She pushed herself up from the mud, and I didn’t wait. I yanked her against me again, teeth grazing hers in a growl, tongue tangling with hers in a messy, desperate rhythm. Mud and rain streaked across our faces, but I didn’t care; I could taste blood and storm and fireball all at once, and it was intoxicating.

My hands roamed, gripping her hips, her ribs, her breasts. hauling her impossibly close to me.

Raven clawed at my shoulders, laughed breathlessly between hisses and moans, and I deepened the kiss, snapping at her lower lip like I might devour it, roaring softly into her mouth, marking her as mine. When we finally parted for air, I kept my forehead pressed to hers, chest heaving, and whispered, “If anyone ever touches you again....or if you disappear like that, you’ll wish the ground swallowed you before I get my hands on you, fireball.”

Raven shivered against me, a wicked little grin on her lips, and I could feel her pulse hammering in ways that had nothing to do with the fight. That threat, I practically growled it into her ear, had her stomach twisting and her breath hitching.

I saw a spark of mischief in her eyes. Somewhere in the back of her chaotic little brain, she was already imagining what I’d do to her when we got home…

Ayla came streaking through the battlefield, and before we could react, she dove straight into Raven, knocking both of them....and me, flat into the mud with a splash. I scrambled, half-panicked, because I just witnessed her explode the heads of our enemies.

Her arms wrapped around Raven tightly, and her voice was filled with relief and love. “I’m safe because you guys found me! I love you both so much,” she gasped, pressing herself into us, warmth radiating through the chaos. I scrambled, panic flashing through me at the thought of her powers, but then she wrapped herself around Raven, her body warm and alive against ours. “You found me. I love you....both of you. I’m so grateful… so grateful you came.”

Raven leaned in close, “You saved yourself,” she said, prying Ayla’s arms off so we could get up. “I saw every swing, every head you split open. You were beautiful in it… and I knew you had it in you. Every kill, every scream, they were yours, and I’m so damn proud. You’re my Luna. Don’t ever forget it.” She reached out, fingers curling around Ayla’s shoulder, and smirked, feral joy blazing in her gaze.

I grabbed her shoulders, eyes wide, heart hammering like a war drum, and my voice cracked with sheer panic. “Ayla! Tell me you didn’t just get mind control, did you?! Don’t you dare lie to me! I’ve been telling you.......you were supposed to tell me if you got them… and now I see what you just did....heads exploding,”

I can’t even think straight!

“No....don’t tell me.....just....I swear if you mind control my brain....”

“You’ll what? Be happy she made it so you can function on more than two brain cells? You'd better get your orgy hands off my mate or lose them.” Thane growls, standing over us. He’s grown in height, and his alpha presence is......strong.

“Note to self, now that Thane is finally royalty, he is an even bigger dick.” Honesty, we are both going to be bigger assholes to be around now that we have our mates back. Our wolves are pushing to mate, to claim again, to chain them up and never let them out of the house.

“Come on, we need to find Eric, and we need to find a phone to check on Damon immediately.”