EUDORA. Déjà Vu. It hit me even harder than the pelting rain as we ran through the forest. The feeling of familiarity came from knowing I’ve been in this same situation before with the rain serving as the only variable. The hand gripping mine tightly and pulling me, my racing heart as I followed him into the unknown while trying to keep the same pace, and the imminent threat to both our lives which was not far behind us as we ran—I’ve seen it all before. It was just like the first day I met him(well, a different version of him but I didn’t even know that then and now that I do, I couldn’t stop my brain from replaying the previous scene in my head), and he practically ran away with me while I was still wearing the dress that signified my innocence that would have been punctured by Alpha Tauren if Alpha Rex hadn’t showed up. It was the day my fate changed upon meeting him and so it was a given that even in this dangerous moment, it was all I could think about. That and the way my he
ALPHA REX.“Are…we lost?” We’ve been silent since we found shelter under the huge rock, staring into the stark darkness ahead of us and listening to nothing but the rhythmic sound of the rain and the occasional thunder that rocked the forest. This wasn’t exactly how I planned the day to go yet here I was, in the middle of a deep forest with a girl whose existence has only ever bothered me since I met her. I’ve been walking the paths of this forest for seven years, ever since that night I regained my freedom and returned to the place I used to call home but this was the first time I’ve gone off course because I had felt the urge to protect someone even though it wasn’t who I was expecting to see. Right now, that someone was curled up beside me, shivering and I can smell her apprehension. I peered into her questioning brown eyes and they almost stopped me from saying the words forming at the tip of my tongue but I let them out anyway. “What do you think?” I snapped at her and she re
EUDORA.I was falling down a cliff. It was an endless fall, one that made me think I would float in the air forever and I was prepared for the outcome, to feel pain the moment my back hits the ground, to let the darkness take over my vision and finally get plunged into that abyss that has been a long time coming but suddenly, an unknown face appeared above the cliff and for some reason, I didn’t want to keep falling anymore.I reached out, desperate. They reached down. But it was too late. I hit the ground the same moment I woke up with a horrified gasp and realized it was just a dream. At least part of it. I tried to remember where I was and the last thing I remembered was someone holding unto me as I slipped and then my vision turned dark. I must have passed out from the shock of the fall down the cliff. On instinct, I sat up and my hands roamed my body. A sigh of relief escaped my lips upon realizing I wasn’t hurt or bleeding anywhere. I was fine, but how? My vision was still
EUDORA.I was freaking out, anyone would If they saw the same thing I was seeing right now. It took slapping my cheeks a few times to be sure I wasn’t the problem and this wasn’t a dream even though I wished it was. Did I hear him right or did he just say he was an Omega? “What sort of rubbish are you blabbering?” I snapped, “Did you hurt your head?” He shook his head, blinking his eyes rapidly and pouting his lips. “My head is fine. Is there a reason why it shouldn’t be?” I shifted closer to him, refusing to believe the fall didn’t mess with his head. Him being his alter ego, I could take but confusing his identity with one that wasn’t his? No. I dug my hand through his hair, letting my fingers scratch through his full head of black and brown, trying to see if he shattered his skull or something. “What are you doing?” He protested, “Stop!”I didn’t back down and even proceeded to grab his entire face so I could have a better look. He struggled with me and pushed me off him. I lan
EUDORA.The silence in the car as he drove back home was deafening. The ride back home felt even longer than the one to the forest with Alpha Rex especially with Logan's eyes that kept looking at the rearview mirror. I pretended like I didn’t know he was looking at me but I was very much aware of the way his eyes bore holes into me from the rearview mirror. His gaze was questioning and it shifted from me to the overly curious man seated beside me in the backseat of the car. Alpha Rex’s alter ego was looking outside the window of the car, seemingly intrigued by every single thing that he saw along the way. It would be even strange if Logan didn’t look disturbed by the way his Alpha was currently behaving. However, I wasn’t ready to answer whatever questions he may have for me because I didn’t even know where to start from but seeing both our disheveled state, he seemed to refrain from asking questions and I was grateful for that. “Is he…badly hurt?”He finally broke the silence in t
EUDORA. I created the problem we had at hand and it was only right that I be the one to find a solution to it. Besides, it seemed like everyone else was too stunned to even find it believable and needed time to come to terms with the fact that their Alpha wasn’t right in the head. Everyone aside, Zena, who even hours after I broke the news still couldn’t stop laughing. I avoided everyone else by saying I needed to bring him to his room to treat the deep cut on his side and I pulled him away with me without as much as a protest from him, if anything, he seemed to be glad he was finally getting away from the inquisitive eyes of everyone. Finding a solution to the problem is what had me in Alpha Rex’s room right now, with the version of him that wasn’t unhinged but rather…strange. He was looking around the room, his eyes scanning the place where he had slept and woke up many times yet the obsidian eyes had not a glint of familiarity in them. He looked around and I looked at him. Only
EUDORA.“Wha—what are you doing?” I stuttered, snapping my head away quickly before I got any more view of his body.“What? You asked me to take my shirt off.” He sounded perplexed.I did say so but I didn’t expect him to take it off just like that either. I might not have thought it through but he should know better, shouldn’t he? We were alone and he was blatantly exposing his chest to me and seeing his reaction, he didn’t even sound like he found anything wrong with it. I cleared my throat, still looking away from him. My cheeks flamed hot and trying to convince myself that this wasn’t the time and place for me to feel things, didn’t work. Especially the time. This wasn’t the time to feel things when the man I was feeling it for wasn’t exactly in his right senses. “Yes, I did say so but I didn’t…well, I didn’t think you’d suddenly take it off like that.” I managed to say while still looking away from him. “I should put it back on then.”Before I knew it, he was already shruggi
EUDORA.I was also exhausted and needed to shut my heavy eyes. I had planned to meet Zena after I was done with taking care of Alpha Rex’s alter ego but I was too tired to do that anymore. Or maybe I was trying to avoid talking about it for now and me being tired was an excuse, either way, I retired into my own room and just slumped on my bed, not even bothered enough to take a shower. As I laid on the bed, my back on it and my face to the ceiling, like a tape was being rewinded, my mind drifted back to everything that has happened in just a span of two days and what it now means for me.Lillian never said anything about how to make Alpha Rex return if he somehow becomes someone else. I remembered clearly everything she said about Alpha Rex, especially how no one has ever met his alter ego. It can only mean that now, I have to figure out a way to make him return to his true self. What if I am never able to do that?What if Alpha Rex never returns?What if he is stuck as his Omega alt