The Omegas Time Chapter 26

Hope

The rest of his lessons weren’t any better. In fact they made my blood boil. I was going to be sold as a companion. Which was just a nice polite way of saying sex slave.

My whole existence was boiled down to pleasuring my alpha and hopefully bearing his spawn. Or baby as he called it. 

Lincoln skipped over some of the harsher parts. Concentrating on the law of the three types of people that humans had been categorised into since the great wars.

Alphas like him, bigger , stronger, usually in positions of leadership.

Betas, like Franc and the majority of the population. And then -

Omegas, like me. Weak, soft who were used for nothing more than pleasure and baby growing.

I had thought life in my own time had been filled with sexism and misogyny but boy had I been wrong.

This world, this future of the human race was like every woman’s worst nightmare. 

“I think that’s enough for today. I can see that you are overwhelmed. Tomorrow we will go over how you will be expected to act.” He closed the books with a thud that made me jump.

“Sorry.” Lincoln said quietly.

“For scaring me or for selling me?” I asked tartly.

“Scaring you.” He said evenly. “Because I am not selling you. It’s just the way things are and I’ve given you my word that I will find you-“

“You could just let me go ,Lincoln.” He liked me, I knew he did. I would go so far as to say he cared for me. After all, he had saved me more than once. “I wouldn’t even tell anyone that you let me go. And I’ll run. No one will find me.”

He shook his head. “You wouldn’t get far. The first sniff of what you are and the alphas will swarm. They aren’t all high ranking officials. There’s packs of them running all over this city.”

“Then I’ll leave the city.” I begged. “I’ll do anything you want just don’t make me -“ my voice broke.

He met my eyes and I was sure they had been a different colour only a second before. “The answer is no Hope.” He snapped with a growl in his voice. “Do not ask again. I will do my best by you and by the other omegas who will soon be joining us but none of you will leave until you leave with your alpha. You will be a companion Hope. You might as well get used to the idea.”

“Then I’ll run away. I’ve had the blue drink and-“

Lincoln threw his head back and barked out a laugh. “You will need to take it every day for the rest of your life. I can supply it whilst you are here but-“

There was no escape then. His little blue drink would keep me here until I was sold because if I didn’t take it every day then I would be hunted down and -

The fight left me. My shoulders slumped. 

“Please don’t look like that, Hope.” He mumbled. “I hate to see you give up.” Lincoln’s voice sounded strangled. “I don’t like-“ he trailed off. “Come with me.” He thrust out a hand. 

I stared at it for a second before I lifted my eyes to his. Mine was full of tears, his were full of misery. “Where are we going?” I asked but my hand moved to slip into his before I knew what I was doing. “Another lesson? Do you have-“

He cut me off. “No more lessons. A little treat for you.” Closing his hand around mine he pulled me to my feet. “But I am going to have to blindfold you.” Easily he slipped behind me. His hands ran up my arms to come down on my shoulders. His fingers squeezed once but once was all I needed. A moan left my lips and my eyes closed.

“Because you don’t want me to see what you are going to do to me?” Each breath I took when he was this close was a breath closer to a release I didn’t know I needed. There was a hole in my core that only he could fill. 

“I am not going to do anything to you.” Lincoln’s breath brushed across my throat and I bit my lip to stop from moaning again.

Surely his little blue drink was meant to stop this? It felt to me like I wanted him more than ever. 

“I am going to show you my treasures.” His hands moved up to cover my eyes , his breath blew across my cheek. Hot and wet and - “trust me.” He whispered.

And I did. I didn’t want to. Trusting him didn’t make any sense at all.

Covering my eyes with his giant hands , he shuffled us forward. Guiding me and not once did he let me stumble. 

“Keep your eyes closed.” He ordered and I nodded a silent agreement.

The sound of a key sliding into a lock was loud but I didn’t open my eyes. I had promised him I wouldn’t.

“Three steps forward Hope. There is nothing in your way.”

I shuffled forward and the door slammed behind me.

“Shit.” I clutched at my throat where my heart seemed to be lodged.

“You can open your eyes now.” He sounded like he was right behind me.

My eyes fluttered open and I sucked in a breath. “What? No way-“ I didn’t know where to look first. 

We were in a fairly large room. Full of things that would have been in museums even in my time. There was armour and antique clothing and-

Art.

So much art. Some on the walls, some stacked against each other. Gilded frames and pictures were a little dusty but nothing took away from all the beauty in this room.

I didn’t know where to look first.

Finally my eyes found one picture in the corner and I stumbled forward with a cry. Falling onto my knees I reached my hand to it but didn’t touch it.

“Is that a Botticelli?” I whispered glancing behind me to where Lincoln was hovering. “It’s a copy right? Not the original?”

“I have no idea what a Botticelli is.” He admitted.

“You have all these priceless paintings and you don’t know anything about the artists?” 

How was that even possible?

“You do though, don't you? Maybe you can give me lessons in art and history and I will give you lessons in everything else.”

I turned my attention back to one of the most famous paintings in the world.

“You do know about these things don’t you?”

“A little. I’m a painter, an artist but I know a little art history as well.”

“I’m not going to pretend to know what any of you said Hope but I can see by your face that this room makes you happy. So after our lessons and if you behave you may spend your afternoons here. If you would like that?”

Like that? My heart skipped a beat. It was like a dream come true.

“Yes. Oh my god Lincoln. Yes. This is a dream come true.”

Jumping to my feet, I flung myself into his arms and kissed him.