In order to be accepted as a pack omega, you must progress through the four stages of the Bonding Trials and win the formal approval of your alpha pack.
1. Scent marking
2. Nesting
3. Heats
4. Mating ceremony
Please note that alpha packs can decide to end the process at any time, and you will be able to repeat the process with a different pack. If a Trial is failed, you will be removed from the Bonding Trials effective immediately, and unable to participate in future Trials.
In exceptional circumstances, a pack may decide to Deny an omega.
This means that you will no longer be permitted to come into contact with alpha packs. You will be stripped of your omega status and must leave the city to live amongst the beta population.
Please be reassured that no omega has been Denied in the history of the Omega Hub.
We’re delighted to welcome you to the Bonding Trials and wish you the best of luck with your mating process.
Kind regards,
Ollena Hayward
Head of the Omega Hub
My voice trails off, and we all sit for a moment. My head feels a little dizzy.
“It’s happening,” Jessalyn whispers. “Sienna! And it’s the Cohen pack!”
My mama and I both turn to her. My head feels too slow to keep up with her excitement.
“The Cohen pack?” I push out through the lump in my throat.
Jessalyn squeals. “Isaidyou needed to keep up more! The Cohen pack isthepack. Jax Cohen is this seriously hot singer, and Tristan Cohen is going to be the next Council leader!”
She hugs me. “I’m so happy for you, bitch face,” she mumbles into my shoulder. Her voice shakes a little as I hug her back.
“I’m not going anywhere,” I reassure her.
“You’re going to be the mate of the next Council leader,” Mama repeats numbly. “Oh, Sienna.”
I chew on my lip, but don’t bother pointing out that I’m likely to be absolutely terrible at being a Council leader’s mate. I’m not exactly the best at managing social situations.
“What if they’re your Soul Bonded?” Mama gasps, her hands to her chest. My heart jumps a little, but reality soon steps in.
“I doubt it,” I remind her gently. “Once in a lifetime, remember? You and Dad were lucky to find each other.”
Soul Bonded. That incredibly rare moment of connection, of meeting the eyes of an alpha – oralphas– and just… knowing. That you’re meant to be theirs. The way my parents describe it, the heavens open up and the angels sing. But we have to take their word for it, since my parents have been the only Soul Bonded pairing to appear in Navarre in more than a hundred years.
There’s not much point in waiting around for something none of us are guaranteed.
Clearing my throat, I turn back to Jess. “So, tell me about my future mates,” I tease her. “Who else is in the Cohen pack?”
Jessalyn shakes her wild bronze curls away from her shoulders, holding up her fingers in the air. “We covered Jax and Tristan. Then you have Logan. He’s an amazing artist. His paintings and sculptures are incredible – he has a gallery in the Artist’s Quarter. Then there’s Gray Cohen. He’s an architect. He designed the Opera House when he was fourteen!”
A bottomless pit of inadequacy opens up in my chest.
She flops back dramatically on the bed. “You lucky bitch,” she breathes. “They’re all super-hot, Si.”
