Read Omega’s Possession by Jessica Hall
Chapter 48: Raidon
We went home to my Mom’s. By the time we got back, we were all exhausted. Harlow beelined straight for Scarlet and refused to put her down.
We watched her sob for hours when the realization hit her that her torment at Corbin’s and Leon’s blood that saved her. All her milk had dried up. It took Mom and Rhen a good two hours to get her to calm down.
Leon felt guilty and kept apologizing even though she reminded him it wasn’t his fault, yet Harlow believed she had lost that bonding experience with our daughter. Scarlet, however, didn’t seem to care. The girl was just hungry.
I believed Thane could try to flop his n!pple in her mouth, and she would try to draw milk from it. I watched as Harlow had calmed down enough to give her a bottle, then all night, we slept still as statues on the bed while Harlow and Scarlet took up the center of it. All of us were afraid of rolling on them because Harlow refused to put her in the crib my father had set up. We understood it, but it didn’t make for restful sleeping.
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My eyes felt like sandpaper as I got up. Unable to sleep, Thane had wandered out for a drink a few minutes ago and still hadn’t returned. Carefully slipping off the bed, I leave my old room. Leon and Rhen were curled up and clinging to the edge of the bed, while Harlow’s body was curled around Scarlet’s. I wander down the hall, hearing arguing, before stopping by the living room door.
Emily was asleep holding her father’s hand where he lay on the couch. Once we set him there, he was in too much pain to move. The sun was beginning to come up, and I knew there was no point going back to bed now. I had spent the vast majority of the night staring at the shadows on the ceiling. For a few seconds, I watch as Emily whimpers in her sleep. Leo barely awake brushing his fingers through his daughter’s hair when I spot Thane leaning on the wall across the other side of the room.
He is also watching Leo with his daughter. He nods toward the kitchen and my head turns to the giant loather roller doors half closed, that mom used to block off the kitchen light from filtering into the living room since it was all one giant open space. It only takes me a few moments to figure out where the arguing is coming from.
Quietly I move across the floors, Thane pushes off the wall to follow, and we slip inside the kitchen.
They instantly stop arguing the moment we step inside. It was my mother and father. They rarely argued, my mother had tears streaking down her face, while my father looked furious.
“What’s going on?” I demand, not liking seeing my mother crying. “Nothing, dear, go back to bed.” My mother dismisses me.
“After everything, Elaine. Everything he has done.
Just f*cking ask him!” My father snaps at her and points to Thane. My brows furrow and Thane leans on the counter bracing his arms on it while he stares at them expectantly also trying to figure out what is going on.
“Well?” I ask her, but my mother shakes her head and I turn my attention to my father. “Elaine?”
Thane orders, and she glances at him before snatching a tea towel off the counter to wipe her eyes.
“She doesn’t deserve to lose her father like that.”
My mother whispers, her eyes darting past us to look at Emily sitting next to the couch, her head resting near her father’s h!p while he brushes her hair with his fingers.
Leo coughs and Emily jumps alert, fussing over her father while he tries to swat her hands away and rea*s*sure her he is fine. My mother moves to go help, but I take the tea towel from her hands and the glass of water she quickly gets. Moving back to the living room, I help Emily sit her father up and drink from the glass.
“Have you got painkillers?” Emily asks as my mother comes rushing out with a bottle. She fumbles with the lid and I take it from her and open it. Mom then fiddles with his fluid drip and tucks him back in with the blankets.
Emily just stares at him. Leo cracks her half a smile, trying not to scare her, but nothing he did would console her. She knew she was about to lose him and my eyes flick to Thane who watched with a haunted look on his face.
“You would think they would have a cure for this sort of stuff by now.” Emily murmurs, looking at my mother like she is praying for some miracle cure she just didn’t know about.
My mother smiles sadly. “Maybe one day, sweetie,” my mother tells her, and Emily nods, tears brimming in her eyes.
“It’s okay, Bub. It’s for the best. Karma has come for me, and even if there were, I would spend the rest of my life in prison for what I did.” Emily’s l!p quivers, and she is unable to meet her father’s gaze as she grabs her father’s hand. Leo sighs, turning his head, trying to look out the window.
“Is the sun up yet?” Leo asks, and I glance toward the huge doors. “I’d like to see another sunrise if that is okay.” Leo asks. I look at my mother, who nods her head and reaches down, unhooking the drip.
“Come on, big fella,” I tell him, scooping my arms beneath him. “Emily, open the doors. We can put him on the steps outside.”
“I won’t be able to hold his weight up.” She whimpers before rushing to open the glass sliding doors.
“I’ve got him. It’s fine. You have help.” I a*s*sure her.
Considering she is Omega. Both my mother and Harlow have taken quite a liking to her. Omegas are extremely possessive of their homes and mates, yet none of that existed when it came to Emily. I believe Harlow and mom just wanted to help her, knowing her suffering themselves.
However, I was even shocked when Harlow allowed Emily to hold Scarlet earlier when Emily asked. We had all stood there waiting for her to attack the poor girl.
Even Thane got between them as a precaution when Scarlet had cried out. Emily had moved toward the ba*s*sinet without thinking, with baser instincts for Omegas to protect. Mom showed Harlow how to mix the formula, and Leo growled in warning at his daughter at the last second as she reached into the ba*s*sinet set up in the living room.
Harlow had simply lifted her head and smiled at Emily. “You can grab her, just be careful of her head.” We had all kind of stood there in shock.
Having suspected it been anyone else besides my mother that she would attack her, she didn’t. Not even a growl.
Shaking that thought away, I move outside, sitting on the steps. My mother comes out with blankets and helps me wrap them around Leo, who is sitting between my legs so that he can watch the sunrise. Emily moves to sit between his, resting her head on his knee.
We figured out once we got back that Leo only had a few days left, and thankfully Emily had convinced him not to let Thane end him before his time was up.