CHAPTER 23
Beta
After Omega had run through the well with Jendra, my newly bonded bed girl—no, the girl I love—Alpha and I sprang instantly into motion.
I reached the central monitoring station before the first alarm even sounded. Dr. Nagalan was already there, his gaunt fingers flying over the controls, calling up surveillance feeds from throughout the complex.
“Where are they?” I demanded.
“I’m tracking quantum disturbances,” Nagalan replied, his voice tight with concentration. “The phasing leaves a signature—there!”
A feed materialized showing a corridor three levels down. I caught a glimpse of Omega’s massive black form, Jendra’s pale body slung over his shoulder, before they vanished through another wall.
My hands clenched into fists. Through my bond with Alpha, I felt his presence as he moved to stand beside me, both of us watching the screens with mounting dread.
“He’s moving fast,” Alpha observed. “Purposefully. He knows where he’s going.”
More reports began flooding in. A security officer in Sector Seven had seen them phase through a storage area. A maintenance worker near the transit junction reported a ‘dark figure carrying a woman’ passing through solid rock.
“Plot his trajectory,” I ordered Nagalan. “Now.”
The scientist’s fingers moved with renewed urgency. I called up the three-dimensional map of Magisteria’s underground complex, the holographic display materializing above the central console. Blue lines represented corridors and chambers, purple veins showed the gravitium deposits threading through the planet’s crust.
As Nagalan fed in the sighting data, red points appeared on the map, tracking Omega’s path. One by one, they formed a pattern.
I saw it the same instant Alpha did. Through our quantum connection, I felt his recognition mirror my own horror.
“The mines,” we said simultaneously.
Dr. Nagalan’s face went white as fresh snow. His hand trembled as he reached out to zoom in on the densest concentration of ore deposits.
“If he… if Omega has sexual intercourse with Jendra in the presence of that much gravitium…” Nagalan’s voice cracked. “The resonance effect could amplify his power exponentially.The quantum entanglement between them, combined with the gravitium’s natural dimensional properties…”
“How much more powerful?” I demanded, though I already feared the answer.
Nagalan swallowed hard. “Too powerful to contain. Too powerful to stop. He could phase through any barrier we construct. He could extend his influence across the entire planet, perhaps the entire system. The Federation would fall within hours.”
I was already moving toward the door. Alpha matched my stride perfectly, our minds linked, our purpose unified. We had to reach the mines before Omega completed whatever he intended.
“Alert all security forces,” I called back to Nagalan. “Evacuate the mining sectors. And prepare the gravitium dampening fields—anything that might slow him down.”
“It won’t be enough,” Nagalan said quietly, but I heard him begin issuing orders into his comm as Alpha and I sprinted from the laboratory.
The corridors blurred past us. We moved with speed that would have seemed impossible to human eyes, our enhanced physiology allowing us to cover ground faster than any transit system. Other personnel pressed themselves against walls as we passed, sensing the urgency in our movement.
Through my bond with Alpha, I felt his thoughts aligning with mine. We were formulating strategy, considering options, preparing for what we might face. But underneath it all ran a current of fear—not for ourselves, but for Jendra.
My Jendra.The girl I had claimed, punished, trained. The girl I had made my bonded concubine. The girl I loved.
Jendra
Is that all?Suddenly, I remembered something Omega had said earlier, that I hadn’t really absorbed.
I need to be the one whose marks you bear.
Need.Notwill, or evenwant. Need.
I stared at the cave wall, my body still trembling from what Omega had just done to me, my pussy and my bottom terribly sore from the energy whip and his thrusting manhood, and that single word echoed through my consciousness.
