Omega Bound (Never Ending Darkness) novel Chapter 46

I must have fallen asleep, or something is in my eyes. My eyes are blurry, my vision almost tunneled. I can hear someone talking faintly in the background of my mind. Two someone’s. Their speech garbled, muffled almost. I can’t make out what they are saying, but I can hear their words are getting louder and my body is jostling around. Shaking. Is someone shaking me? Then I hear it. Someone is yelling. Their yells are loud and never–ending. Full of pain and desperation. A feminine voice. Then I hear my name clearly being called while I am shaken around. Am I screaming? I can no longer talk, but apparently in less than 24 hours I can laugh and scream. Life has some cruel jokes. The fates must be laughing at me. They must have spent the last ten years laughing at

1. me.

“Ayla, Ayla. It is me, Thane. Stop hurting yourself. Ayla STOP Thane is here, and he is trying to use an alpha bark on me. Why? I am not sure, unless it is to get me to stop screaming. Alpha parks don’t work on me, but he wouldn’t know that. Well, he knows now I guess. Another secret that is trying to worm its way out of me. “Ayla stop. You are hurting yourself. You need to calm down little wolf. Slow your breathing down and stop clawing your neck.” Clawing my neck? I don’t feel anything. Oh wait, there it is. Pain. Something I am all too familiar with. Yes, apparently I am hurting myself. Why? I don’t know. I am trying to arouse and break through to the chaos around me, but it isn’t working. The warden is here, in my mind. He is beating me. He has the chain around my neck. The chain: ‘s here. I have to get it off. I have to GET IT OFF. “Thane, she’s getting worse. I need to sedate her. She is having a full blown panic attack, probably hallucinating by the looks of her body. She’s trying to get something off of her.” I know that voice. It is Eric, the healer. Yes, he can help me get it off. “Do it. Give her whatever she needs. Hurry.” I feel a small prick to my neck, then a rush of warmth. Darkness floods my vision and the voices stop.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Lub dub. Lub dub. Lub dub. “When will she wake up Eric. What the hell happened back there? I went to check on her and she was screaming and clawing at her neck Nothing I said was helping her at all. Nothing worked.” “Alpha

am sure don’t have to explain any of that to you. She was probably Thane. She has severe PTSD which causes hallucinations. I a deep into a hallucination. What we need to figure out was what triggered it. If we can identify her triggers, besides the obvious We can help her avoid this in the future.” “What is the obvious trigger?” Men. Alpha shifters. Anything sexual in nature. Cages, medical injections etc.” “Well, we have spent some time together. Doing various…activities that should have triggered her, but they didn’t. Not at the time anway.” “Alpha, I am not judging, nor do I care. It seems as though she really trusts you. Some emotional trigger must have set her off. A flashback caused by something. It could have been anything.” “Cyrus is outside Eric. Please let him in.” “Sure thing alpha.”

“What the hell happened Thane? I didn’t tell you she needed to get out of her rooms for you to bring her to the damn hospital.” “She was having a panic attack. I am not sure what brought it on.” “I bet if you think hard enough Thane, you can probably figure it out.” “What the hell are you talking about Cyrus?” “Nothing. Never mind Thane.” “What? IF you got something to say, say it.” “Oh, I got plenty to say. Now isn’t the time though.”

Are they arguing over me? I must be back in the clinic. I feel groggy and I am not able to open my eyes, but I can hear what is going on around me. “How the hell are you going to tell her that someone is out there running around the town looking for her because she is his mate? You can’t tell her like this. What if it send her into another one of these episodes?” Wait a minute. Mate? Did he say mate?