Chapter 58 - First Step

Eician sighed as he watched the sun rise over the trees surrounding their village.

While the forest had been cut back a great deal, the trees were still close and they loomed tall and ominous in the dawn light. He hadn’t slept at all and exhaustion weighed heavily on him.

After a night left alone to his thoughts, he knew he had overreacted to Dyllen’s words.

When the alpha had spoken, all Eician could comprehend was the meaning that had followed him throughout his teens and into his adult life.

It was like all the voices, all the pain from the past had overlapped with the present.

What was the point of being an omega when he couldn’t even bear children? Wasn’t that the entire purpose of being an omega?

Growing up so sickly he had little to do with children his age and the couple that adopted him were getting on in years, their own children all grown and starting their own families.

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