His Incurable Omega novel Chapter 42

Whining and groaning about doing pushups and running seemed the least of my worries, and would look very bad if I gave up because I couldn't handle it.

But man did I hate working out.

We entered the training grounds. They were already there of course. They were hard at work training well before I started. Alto and Elden stopped in their sparring session. It didn't look too serious. I think they were actually warming down.

"Morning," Elden said, nodding his head towards us.

Alto moved silently towards me until he was towering above me.

He leaned down, his hand coming up to stroke my arm, almost involuntarily.

Over the past few weeks, I had noticed a few things shift within the bond. I felt some emotions trickle from Alto. Those were very few and it had only really happened twice when he felt a strong emotion.

But he was starting to feel what I was feeling also.

And then there is a pull. I just need to be next to him. When he is around I need to touch him. The smallest touch. Just a hand on the waist, a shoulder brushing each other, fingers barely touching. But it soothed my heart and made an ache within my chest disappear when he and I were breathing in the same space.

"Morning Alto," I whispered.

His eyes grew if possible even darker. I fell into the void until his words brought me back.

"Are you okay?"

"What?" I quickly took a step back from him, startled by his question.

A flash of gold showed in his eyes. In that same instance, I registered a similar flash of pain in me. I had hurt him by stepping back.

He stepped closer to me though, still waiting for my answer.

"Yes, I'm okay," I said. Was I still pale?

Alto narrowed his eyes at me as if trying to find something within my words. He nodded though and shifted his body so that he half faced me.

"Let's start then."

I barely repressed the groan from my mouth. Training. Again.

Alto seemed to take on another attitude when training. Lizzy and I quickly realized it when we had tried to joke around once. That never happened again.

Lizzy sobered up at his words. I could see hints of her past life showing in her as the days went by. She had been training every day with us, and I was just beginning to grasp how great of a warrior she formally was.

Alto though.

Alto was something else.

When I watched Alto train and fight I sent a silent prayer to his opponents. Good luck, I said.

I had not seen him shift yet. I shuddered at the day when I would watch him strip down and transform. I didn't know if I was scared or excited. Lizzy claimed excitement.

The training had its routine now of warm-ups and different exercises. Alto believed in training not only the body but the mind, as per the warrior's code. Lizzy was familiar with the silent meditations that we did for an hour every mid-day. It had taken me a while to grasp it. Okay, I still didn't have it, and I always fell asleep and was woken up by a laughing Elden and disapproving Alto.

And then the day ended with dinner.

I stared hard at his lips as they talked to me now. However, no sound was coming out of them. I stared even harder, trying to make out the words he was saying. A ringing in my ears though seemed to drown them out. Suddenly the lips that I had been staring so hard at seem to blur and grey around me.

What? I felt dirt under my skin and in my hands. Was I on the ground?

I shuddered in trapped confusion as my vision continued to grey, Alto's words registering as if they had gone through a tunnel and only now the echo was reaching me as he whispered in a scared voice,

"Fayette?!" Fayette?"

Phew what a ringer.

She is water

Powerful enough to drown you

soft enough to cleanse you

and deep enough to save you

~adrian michael

Static.

I felt like an old television set that was desperately trying to pick up a signal. My eyes were open, but all I saw was gray. I heard no noise. Nothing, except the static background.

Panic seeped into me as I laid there. I felt nothing. My skin contacted nothing.