Omega by Kassanna Page A

except for a broken window where water splattered the floor.
    Raindrops pelted the steel roof of the shack, echoing through the space. Water flew everywhere as he shook the fluid from his coat. The porch creaked and Robbie stuck her head over the threshold. He nudged her into a corner, her hair hung in thick, wet clumps and her shirt was transparent. Her chest heaved as she wrapped her arms around her torso and briskly rubbed her body.
    They were on the far side of the property; he’d run them hard and wouldn’t let her stop to take a breath. He would have to hide her before the pack challenge. Colin shifted. He couldn’t tell her he wouldn’t be joining her when he sent her away. These last few nights would be the last time they could spend together for a while. His heart beat hard; he didn’t want to send her away, but there was no other way to make sure no harm would come to her. Until he took care of Malachai, he knew it was open season on her life. With Reana gone, he couldn’t drag his boys from everything they knew. It was also time to take the helm of the Volkshire Pack before Ian led them so far into hell there was no turning back. He couldn’t count on anyone else to do it.
    She shivered and her teeth chattered. Robbie pulled the syringe from her pocket, spun in a circle, then pulled the top off the needle with her mouth and plunged it into her thigh. Her eyes widened, and she wobbled on her feet.
    He reached out and wrapped his arms around her. “What did you do?” He needed to know what she’d injected herself with.
    “I did what I had to and gave my baby a fighting chance. Malachai…he did some things…” She swallowed. “Only God knows what is permeating his body. He used the test subjects’ serums on himself. He raped me!” She rushed out the words before changing the subject. “I’m cold and this is the last of the shifter mixture I created. It should give her another layer of protection.” Robbie’s lips trembled and had a light blue tinge to them.
    Colin’s heart sped up. The urge to return to the fucker’s compound and exact retribution had him thinks of creative ways to get to the colonel. His wolf howled in his mind calling for revenge. He should have gutted the bastard when he had a chance. Payback would be his though, and Malachai would bleed out slow. “Robbie, you don’t know what that could do to you. I won’t lose you,” he uttered and felt her go still.
    “I’ll be all right. My mix is eons ahead of Tom’s toxic shit.” She rubbed her face in the crook of his neck. Fear rolled off her in waves. “How long before we can leave?”
    “I will be hiding you, but I won’t be going with you,” he whispered against her temple.
    “No, Colin. No!” She jerked from his embrace but he held fast. “If you go back, I am going with you. We are mates, you said…promised…”
    “You will leave this place and I will find you. I don’t care how long it takes or what circles of hell I have to travel through. I will come back to you. I can’t breathe without knowing your mine” Colin tipped her chin up and pressed his lips against hers.
    Her soft curves conformed to his harder frame, and he slid his palms down her spine to cup her ass. The jean material was rough against his palms as he squeezed her butt cheeks. Soft moans reverberated through him as he swallowed her wails.
    He lifted his head. “Baby?” He’d waited an eternity to make love to Robbie but instinctively he knew to love her and lose her would take him to a dark place he would never be able to return from. One word from her and he was willing to risk his soul for the heaven he knew he would find in her arms.
    She stared in his eyes. Small clicks rose from the floor and he glanced down. She’d dropped the syringe and it lay in the cracked in the corner behind them. He peered up to return her gaze. She laid her palms flat on his chest and inhaled deeply.
    “I am so tired of hurting.” Tears brimmed her lower