The Alpha's Omega Mate-Chapter 137: Invisible.

~Dahlia’s POV~

"Alpha Zarek, you’re trespassing!" Alpha Kai’s loud and strangely desperate voice snapped me out of whatever daze I’d been in and I glanced up instantly, my ears twitching to catch whatever was happening outside.

All I heard was footsteps, heavy ones. And they were headed this way!

My breath hitched when Alpha Zarek’s usual scent grew even stronger, making my pupils dilate, and causing me to clamp my mouth shut to stop myself from letting out a delightful howl— all thanks to my traitorous wolf.

The bitch!

Again, I was snapped out of my ’Zarek trance’ when I heard the heavy footsteps sounding impossibly closer until it stopped in front of the large old mahogany door. My heart fell.

He was right outside? He’s finally caught me!

Despite myself, tears slipped into my eyes at the thought of how all I’ve been through just to be far from Alpha Zarek were simply a waste, and do you know what irritated me even further?

When I glanced down at Amara to find her expectantly staring at the door as if expecting it to be torn down any moment from now.

"What are you looking for, Alpha Zarek?" I heard Alpha Kai ask, but I didn’t need to check to know that Alpha Zarek was now standing behind the door. Gods, I didn’t even need to check because his intoxicating scent was beginning to do things to my body... things that I can out and will not explain.

"Someone." Alpha Zarek simply responded, his voice hoarse, but dangerously low as if laced with honey and something else... something that felt so sharp, it could easily cut through skin. It licked across my skin like a lover’s touch, setting my body on for even though he had not really touched me.

But despite the way my body thrummed with emotions barely contained, despite the way excited currents zapped through my body like a curse, my eyes snapped to Amara’s glistening ones and I mouthed to her; "Do not speak."

She frowned.

"Do not move!"

Amara didn’t refute me. But she didn’t acknowledge me either. Her eyes lingered on the door for a minute too long and then she squeezed her eager eyes shut, her small hands balling into fists by her sides.

I heard someone sigh frustratedly and instantly deduced that it had to be Alpha Kai, and as if hearing my thoughts, he soon began to say; "I have no idea who you’re looking for, Zarek, but I am certain that they’re not in there. That room has been out of bounds for over two years; and there no way I’ll allow you in—"

"What’s inside?" Alpha Zarek snarled in an eerily low tone, interrupting him, and I shuddered as a quiet gasp escaped my lips. "Who is inside?"

At that, I scrambled closer to Amara, pulling her into my arms while she reluctantly embraced me.

"Nothing that’s meant to be your business." Alpha Kai bit back, but Zarek was probably dissatisfied with that response because he soon began to twist the door’s knob, grunting in frustration when it wouldn’t budge.

"Zarek, you’re in my pack, you should listen to me! Do not force me to exert force!" Alpha Kai yelled, his voice sounding dangerously loud and deep. His beast was close to the surface, gods I could feel it.

Alpha Zarek probably felt it too because then he stopped toying with the knob. I have no idea what happened next but next thing I knew, more grunts filled the air, followed by cursing and extremely long strings of profanities.

"You’re in my PACK!" Kai snapped again, but this time, that wasn’t enough to deter Zarek who screamed back.

"And I think you have one of mine in there!"

"I don’t!" Kai shot back, but the stubborn mule, the man I was sure as hell could feel me as much as I felt him, wasn’t easily persuaded. He snapped; "I feel her."

My eyes snapped open as my jaws dropped. Even Amara who was hugging me tightly, breath hitched. He raised her gaze to me, her eyes pleading, and as soon as I saw her eyes, I immediately knew what she was asking for.

She wanted us to stop hiding. She was red to turn to Zarek.

I frowned, shaking my head as I mouthed; "No."

That probably made her furious because she instantly dropped her head, her frame stiffening as she squeezed her eyes shut.

"If you’re sure that none of mine is in there, then please open the door." Zarek’s voice snapped me out of my reverie and I froze, tears pooling in my eyes as reality began to dawn on me.

This was the end.

He’d return me to Shadowfang, and my suffering would be worse than how it’s always been.

"I cannot!" Kai snapped back, his tone sounding frustrated. "My unconscious younger sister, Elodie, is in there and I am not letting you into her space."

"And I won’t go in!" Alpha Zarek shouted back, pleading now. "I’ll only stand by the door and peep in."

"Zarek—" Alpha Kai began to say but he was rudely interrupted when Alpha Zarek snarled.

"Goddess, it’s beginning to look like you’re really hiding something in that room! Because tell me, why are you so stuck up?! I know that this is your pack, your house, your rules and you’re my friend! And I am telling you, I can smell something familiar here! I’m trying to be sensible here, but you’re making it difficult!"

The frustration in Alpha Zarek’s voice made my eyes water but I bit down on my trembling lips, squeezing my eyes shut as if that way, it would shrink into myself... as if that way I could make Amara and I disappear.

Disappear...

The word rang over and over again in my mind, and deciding to test it out, I squeezed my eyes even tighter and willed myself to be somewhere else. To be invincible. To not be seen.

In that same moment, the door was suddenly forcefully pushed open, letting out a cloud of dust in the air and I froze when Alpha Kai stepped inside, his eyes widening infinitesimally before he quickly fixed his expression.

"Now, come feed your curiosity." He snapped, stepping further into the room and giving Alpha Zarek more room to follow after him. "Can you find one of yours in here?"

They both slid inside, their eyes drinking in the entire large space, but for some reason, even though Amara and I were literally standing in front of them, they didn’t see us.

I frowned, waving my left hand in front of them as if testing my theory out, but none of them flinched. None of them even glanced in my way. I gasped.

They couldn’t see us...

...Because we were strangely invisible.