SEVENTY

SPECIAL CHAPTER TWO: AMITY

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Special chapters serve to shed light on the perspectives of minor characters, providing insight into their roles in the unfolding narrative.

My life became the mess it was when two insignificant people decided to heed the bond of the goddess.

A Phi and a renounced sentinel fell in love and had a child.

My mother watched the pups of great wolves, a job for the lowest of lows, while my father, once a respected sentinel, flew too close to the sun. His demotion threw him to the rank of omega.

By birth, I would either become a Phi like my mother or an omega. Fate and the goddess were unkind to me, however. The sins of my father found me, and I came into the world as the lowest of runts.

An omega.

The bullying was relentless. In a world where your rank determined who you were and the weight your words carried, why wouldn't I be tortured?

Everyone wanted that power. To command another and have them obey without question.

But I worked my way up from t