“Why have we gotta do this?” Kadence moaned as he hung back by the stable door.The beta had continued to be outspoken with his criticisms and complaints over their first few days together and Dyllen was losing what little patience he had.Again.He seemed to lose it every day where the beta was concerned.None of the other kids had such an issue with the work but Kadence seemed to be rubbing off on the others as Saam also balked at the sight of the manure-filled stable floors.Dahlia, the one Dyllen thought he’d have the most trouble with, was oddly meek for an alpha. It seemed like she was fighting her very nature and it left her open to the others.Kadence needed to be taken down a few pegs but not just by Dyllen.The dynamics of their little group were slowly setting, and he didn’t approve of Kadence becoming something of a leader with his atti

 Eician dithered in the kitchen, putting off going out into the noisy hall where everyone was eating.Even some beta families joined in the mess hall meals and there were too many people that Eician didn’t know for him to be comfortable. And more importantly, there were six alphas out there, seven if you included Dahlia.Although… after spending the last few hours in the company of Dyllen, Dahlia, and Urkane, Eician found himself less affected by their presence.Dahlia was easy to get used to: she was young, respectful, and a girl.The alpha that had abused Eician had been an older male. Both Dyllen and Urkane were the oldest alphas in the group and being male, they should have triggered Eician the most. Yet now, he found himself cringing at Brite’s loud, boisterous voice calling out from across the hall.Urkane was steady and calm. His deep voice had been almost soot

 The room was dark and most of the occupants still slept, barring one or two early risers who moved about quietly.Dyllen would usually be asleep still but the discomfort of the wooden floorboards after months of sleeping in a bed had kept his sleep short. Pulling on his day clothes, Dyllen looked around at his still slumbering kids before deciding to leave them be.He didn’t feel like dealing with any grumpy teens in his curiously content mood. They could get up when the rest of the band did or risk missing breakfast.The mess hall was empty when he arrived, the fires from the previous night nothing but ash, leaving the room to take on the early morning chill.Noise came from the kitchen but Dyllen ignored it in favour of collecting wood from the large covered stack outside the building. Not much point starting both fires when the morning chill would burn off soon enough but he would appreciate one of them goin

 If Eician really couldn’t have kids, then he’d probably felt like a useless omega at some point or another.Wasn’t bearing children the entire point of being an omega?They were the ultimate parents.Not that Dyllen cared one bit- hell, he was fucking terrified of babies. As far as he was concerned, that didn’t change his interest.But that’s not what Eician would have heard.No, he heard an alpha he seemed to like calling him useless.No wonder the omega had fucking bolted.He had hit a sore point of the omega’s past as surely as Kadence had hit a point of Dahlia’s.Dyllen had already put together Dahlia’s quiet personality together along with the unusual choice of name for an alpha girl and worked out that her parents were hoping for an omega.“Looks like Pa fucked up his chances for a mate. Getting kind of old for se

 “There you are! Are you okay?” Skye cried and Eician jumped as he was pulled roughly from his thoughts.The omega engulfed him in a hug, squeezing him tighter than he would have thought possible. Skye brought up his hand and a familiar silver glow overtook it as he frowned down at him, obviously checking him over in his worry.“You’re freezing!” the raven haired omega exclaimed as he dropped his hand and pulled Eician to his feet. “That blanket isn’t thick enough to be outside in, come inside and I’ll put some tea on. You didn’t sleep, did you? What about eat? Here, let me grab you a snack before breakfast.”Skye dashed about the clinic as Eician took his usual seat on the other side of the long table that made up Skye’s main workspace.Linus appeared in his lose sleep pants, hair tousled from sleep and his bare chest showing off th