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18. Oliver

Chapter 18

Oliver

I don't let go of Mila, not even when we pull up to the house and bring her inside.

She peers absentmindedly at a burned mound of rubble on the edge of the treeline, and it takes her a moment.

"The tool shed?"

A nervous sound escapes me, and I run my hand through my hair. "Yeah. Lachlan is really going that extra mile to earn back your forgiveness. Just… humor him, okay?"

She nods, peering at Lachlan. The Alpha isn't too far behind, trailing her like a lost puppy. He even offers his jacket when she shivers, and I need to step up my game.

He's making the rest of us look bad.

Finally, we enter the house, and Mila wraps her arms around herself.

Nothing has changed, but she almost looks as if she is trying to find something familiar. Something to ground herself.

Not wanting to overwhelm her, I offer to take her to her room.

We've barely been in there since she left. I couldn't bring myself to go in.

She took all her things with her when she went home to be with her dad, but the blue paint remains, and the same sheets on the bed.

"Come, I'll take you to your room."

Mila hunches her shoulders again, and she has never looked more uncomfortable. I bet a part of her still feels like an outsider here, and I have to rectify that immediately.

This is her home, and she will always have a place here.

So long as she will have us.

I won't smother her. The choice is hers.

No one is forcing her to be here anymore, and best of all…

We all want her here now.

Even Gryphon, who has the most to prove out of all of us.

He was the one who hurt her the most, and he has a long way to go before he can earn back even a smidge of her forgiveness.

Even now, he hardly tries, keeping the furthest amount of distance possible from her, and I will have to have a word with him later.

I understand he's not the most touchy-feely person. It took him a while to open up to me, but if we want to make this work, then he needs to try harder.

Mila has been through enough trauma. She not only lost her father but she was banished and then sent to that god-awful school.

I wouldn't wish that school on my worst enemy, and I'm just glad that we got her away from there.

At least she managed to knock the teeth out of that one Omega, and if only I'd had the same courage back when I was training.

It's okay now. She is safe and away from those nasty bitches, and most of all…

She is away from Lily.

Thank the heavens Lily never discovered she was there.

I don't think the Alpha ever realized she was an Omega in the first place, and how Mila managed to hide her real identity all this time, I'll never know.

She did it all to protect her father, and she's such an inspiration.

At least that man is at peace now.

I open the door, and the room is cold when I direct her inside. Mila runs her hands up and down her arms, and once again, she looks around as if she is in an unfamiliar, alien world.

Something I will definitely rectify soon.

I give her space as she runs her hand along her old cabinet, gathering up a little dust, and we should have really considered giving this place a quick clean before she arrived.

Everything is just happening so fast.

We barely had the time to blink.

Mila glances at the bed, and again, she is cautious, acting as if everything will blow away before her eyes.

It won't.

It won't ever blow away again.

Mila is ours.

Mine.

No one will put their hands on her again.

Especially Lily.

I will gut that woman before she ever has a chance at hurting Mila again.

No one will keep us apart.

"This is the first time I have stepped inside this room since…" I don't finish, reaching up to run my hand through my hair.

Mila just nods. She has barely made a sound since we left the headmistress's office.

She went through a terrible loss, and it doesn't look as if she has had a chance to truly grasp it.

I'm not even sure how to give her my condolences.

Both my parents are still alive.

The same with Barret and Lachlan.

The only one of us who can relate is Gryphon. He lost his dad too, though he barely likes to talk about it.

He was pretty young when it happened. Though he does wear the man's watch, even to this day.

However, I'm not counting on Gryphon to extend an olive branch anytime soon. But when the time comes, that would be a great place to start.

I don't want to overstay my welcome.

It's best to give Mila her space.

She needs to make herself at home again. This is her room, after all, her safe place.

However, an Omega's true safe space will always be their nest, and that's when I have my lightbulb moment.

I think I know how to start making it up to her.

I'm an Omega myself, so there's no excuse.

I'll give Mila the best nest an Omega could ever dream of.

It will be even better than mine.

"I'll leave you alone to unpack," I say, placing her bags by the door, and once again, Mila doesn't look me in the eye.

The guilt chews me up. I'm the reason why she is distant.

She can't bring herself to trust me again.

But she agreed to come back, so it's a start.

Mila hasn't completely given up on us, and so long as she is willing to trust us again, there is hope.

"Dinner will be ready at six."

Finally, I close the door, realizing already that I've set myself up for failure. I can barely cook, and I really am the worst Omega in existence.

Still, I didn't spend four years in that awful institution for nothing.

I swear… I am going to make Mila the best goddamn meal she has ever had.

My first step to making it up to her.

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