The Return of the Scorned Omega

The Return of the Scorned Omega

Chapters: 89
Updated: 16 Jan 2025
Author: Grace Chanbee
4.5

Synopsis

She wanted a second chance at revenge; life gave her a second chance at love. Accused of committing treason, Ava watches as her family is slain right in front of her, but she survives and escapes from the Midnight Howl Pack, carrying with her the Alpha’s sole heir, and just when she had given up all hope, she finds out whose daughter she is and just how she can get back at everyone who had tormented her and her family all her life. With his throne threatened and to fill the void in his heart, Alpha Ryan searches for the same mate he had chased away several years ago and had asked not to return. When he finds her, it is clear that she is no longer the Omega he used to know, and the kindness in her heart has been replaced with a quest for vengeance against him and his people. How far is he willing to go to get her back, and is there any chance at all that somewhere deep down, the woman he had fallen in love with still exists or did her love fade away with the betrayal she suffered at his hands? They never expected her to return, but even if they had, they couldn’t have known what she had in store for them. Karma had failed her, so she had taken charge of her own destiny, but when it all boils down to love and revenge, what will take the centre stage in her heart???

Enemies To Lovers Betrayal Pregnancy Revenge Escape While Pregnant Alpha

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Chapter 1 | The Return of the Scorned Omega

Ava.

It was a cold night, a very terrible one at that, and without my wolf being out even though I was already eighteen, I had no fur to shield me from the cold.

A smile found its way to my lips, as in that moment, beautiful memories flooded my brain. It was at nights like these the Alpha would sneak me into his chamber and cuddle me tightly, holding me like he was never going to let me go.

Because of him, I couldn’t care less about my wolf coming out or not. Because of him, I was less concerned as to what people said about me and how they treated my family and I. Because he loved me, I was quite satisfied waiting for him in this tavern which reeked of alcohol and old wine, wearing a sleeveless satin dress, not minding the cold.

I wetted my dry lips with my tongue, fiddling with my fingers, not knowing how he was going to react to the news, but confident that henceforth, I would get to lay next to a warm body every night.

For some reason, he was running late and I was slowly getting impatient, and just as I was thinking of calling it a day and heading back to the tiny house I shared with my mother and twin brother, believing he had gotten caught up with his stressful job as an Alpha, I heard the sound of footsteps I knew belonged to him and him alone.

Hearing his footsteps break the silence of the quiet night, the smile on my face grew wider and my heartbeat intensified as though it were the first time he was near.

Alpha Ryan and I found out we were mates just a year ago, when he had come into the tavern disguised as one of the locals. The moment I served him a bottle of ale and our eyes met, we had instantly known that we had been mated by the Moon Goddess, and I could vividly remember seeing him right outside the tavern waiting for me when I was done with my shift. I had pushed him away consistently, telling him all about how I was the very Omega whose mother had by having an abominable affair with a man from the rival Pack, but he didn’t mind and followed me all around like a lost puppy.

I stood up as I heard him get closer, and soon, the door opened and my Alpha, the strongest and most handsome man I had ever known, came in. He had fair skin, and although he had great muscles and a heavily built body, his body was somehow just soft and smooth to touch… to cuddle, to love. His cheekbones heightened his facial appearance, with silky brown curly hair falling all over his face, kissable pink lips and oh!… those ocean blue eyes that would someday be the death of me, but there was something different about him which I couldn’t quite point out immediately.

“You’re here,” I said, wearing a broad smile which exposed all of my teeth.

I didn’t hesitate to run into his arms and hug him tightly.

However, to my surprise, he pushed me away. I was surprised, and when I looked up at him, I saw the anger in his eyes; something I had never quite seen before.

“What’s wrong? Did I do something?” I inquired.

“You betrayed my trust, Ava. You and your family betrayed my trust,” he accused.

To say I was confused would be an understatement. “Alpha Ryan, I don’t understand you. What are you talking about?” I asked.

“Your mother sold the information about the secret passageway to your father, didn’t she?” he asked.

I was perplexed. “What? How could you even say that? She wouldn’t do such a thing. She doesn’t even know his whereabouts. I have never even seen him all my life,” I said, defending myself.

“Oh, stop lying. You can fool everyone else, Ava, but you can not fool me. Tell me the honest truth and maybe I’d find a way to get you out of this. Or isn’t the reason you called me here to confess? Isn’t that the urgent matter you had to discuss with me?” he asked.

I was taken aback, seeing the seriousness on his face. For a second, I had thought he was just joking around, but he actually seemed to mean every word.

“I promise you, Alpha Ryan, I have no idea about what you’re saying right now. Why would you even think that…”

“There was an eye witness. She saw your mother talking to a strange man,” he said.

Immediately, I put two and two together and could totally see where the misunderstanding was coming from. “It’s… it’s not what you think. That man is… is my… um…”

I was cut off by the sound of wolves running through the night, under the bask of the full moon. Their smell… they were obviously trackers, but it was nighttime and we weren’t in a war period. What were they searching for?

“What’s happening? Why are trackers coming in this direction?” I asked.

I watched Alpha Ryan bit his lower lip. “That’s because you and your family are traitors and now, they’re after you. I shouldn’t have gotten involved with your kind; all you do is bring nothing but misery,” he said; regret laced in his voice.

I shook my head in the negative, and grabbed his arm. “No, you don’t understand. It’s a misunderstanding. That man is just…”

“Spare me the details, Ava! You’ll have time to speak during your trial,” he said, flinging my hand off him and turning around to leave.

“The people hate my family and I. They won’t care about what we have to say at any trial before they condemn us,” I yelled at him from behind.

He kept leaving and didn’t even bother to turn around. Obviously, he was still hurt from thinking that I had actually betrayed him and the Pack.

The trackers had gotten to the tavern, and from the sound of bones cracking, I could tell they were switching back into their human forms. In any minute, they would barge in brandishing their swords and I wouldn’t even be able to resist them.

If I didn’t tell him now, I wouldn’t have a chance to do so again.

“I’m pregnant!” I screamed, and instantly, he swung around and his eyes met mine, as he stared at me with visible shock written all over him.

A drop of tear fell from my eyes. “I’m carrying your child, Alpha Ryan,” I told him.

His eyes darted across the tavern as though he was looking for an escape route, but even if that was what he was trying to find, it was no use, as no sooner than I had broken the news of my pregnancy to him, all the doors swung open.

The trackers, about fifteen of them, came in exactly as I had pictured with their swords drawn, and in their eyes, one could clearly see that all they yearned for was blood.

“Seize her!” Luke Carter, Ryan’s uncle ordered, seething with fury as he came in last.

I was all surrounded, and as I looked around in utter confusion, feeling the most helpless I had ever felt, I saw her. A satisfied smile rested on her lips as she also came in and to my utmost surprise, took the Alpha’s hand in hers.

And that was when I noticed what was different about Alpha Ryan that night. He had on a ring, and as her fingers entwined in his, I saw that she had on the exact same ring.

Her name was Fiona, and the moment she smiled, the ache in my heart doubled as I was handcuffed and led away with tears streaming from my eyes, even as I tried to plead that I had done nothing wrong.

For her, it was the happiest day of her life.

For me, it was the beginning of my hell.

Chapter 2 | The Return of the Scorned Omega

Ava.

I was taken to the public square, where I saw my mother and twin brother tied to a stake. They were being stoned with tomatoes, apples, bricks and anything you could think of. My mum tried to protect my brother from getting hurt by spreading her arms over him, but that only proved to be ineffective.

The tears I had been trying to hold back flowed freely from my eyes, watching my mother and brother in agony for something they had just been accused of which wasn’t even proven yet.

I was forced to the ground, after which the head-tracker, Jeremy, dealt me with blows and kicks, to the point where I screamed out loud and started bleeding.

“That’s enough!” Alpha Ryan’s deep voice thundered, and he had a visible fear that lasted on his face for no more than a second.

Could it be… did he care about me and our unborn child?

“Please, let my children go. Fine, call me a traitor, but my children have no hand in it,” my mother said.

“Mum, don’t say that,” I said, glancing in her direction.

She always did look thin and sickly, but what I saw was a complete nightmare. I couldn’t even stare at her for long; my heart broke and I knew the memory would haunt me forever.

“You admit to it, then?” Ryan’s uncle asked.

My mum shook her head. “No, I don’t; but you all have always needed a reason to kill me, so you might as well do that, but spare the lives of my children. It’s not their fault they were born to a mother like me,” she said, blaming herself.

I crawled up to where she was and held her feet, sobbing hard.

My brother joined in, and soon, we were all wailing.

“Oh! In the name of the Goddess, just shut up!” Luke Carter, Ryan’s uncle yelled.

“If you confess to the crime of treason and inform us of your allies, your children would receive the mere punishment of banishment, but you… you would have to die in the burning furnace,” Alpha Ryan stated.

I couldn’t believe my ears, and before my mother could say anything, the anger in me sparked and removed all my sense of reasoning. “Can you even hear yourself speak? No, can you listen to yourself? How dare you condemn my mother to death? Does she look like someone who can commit that kind of offence?”

“Keep quiet! You dare not speak to the Alpha King that way,” Luke Carter yelled at me.

But no, I went on. “My mother has tolerated everyone’s bullshit for years, and has been nothing but loyal to the Midnight Howl Pack. She has said she didn’t do anything wrong, but instead of examining the facts, you are clearly pushing her to admit to something she didn’t do by using her children as bait. You call yourself the Alpha, since when was the Alpha not wise?” I yelled fiercely, looking him dead in the eye.

What happened next was something I wouldn’t have seen coming, even in a million years.

Alpha Ryan roared angrily, drew out his sword and placed it on my neck, fire burning in his eyes. I could see his claws spring out, and I swallowed hard; the gulp sounding hard in the deafening silence.

“Enough! Enough! Enough!” he yelled, also staring back at me.

Tears clouded my vision, and as I looked deeply into his eyes, my heart tingled. I loved this man, I loved him even when he had hurt my family and I. I couldn’t even look him in the eye and feel any kind of hatred for him.

“I am sick and tired of people telling me the kind of Alpha I should be, and it’s crazy that even something as lowly and dirty as you would also try to lecture me. There is no need for this trial anymore. This is my judgement: I sentence you, Ava Smith, your brother and your mother to death,” the Alpha pronounced.

If I say I was the most shocked I had ever been when the Alpha said those words, wouldn’t it be an understatement? There was no word to define that form of betrayal.

He said he loved me. What ever happened to that love he said he had for me? He said it didn’t matter that I was a weak Omega with no wolf; he would protect me against every other person. But… but that was all a lie?

To me, time stopped ticking. The people were probably jeering at us in happiness that we would finally be wiped off the face of the earth, but I couldn’t hear them. Everywhere was blank, and all that kept on replaying in my head were the words Alpha Ryan last expressed. My head was in another planet and it was as though a thousand knives had pierced my heart.

Suddenly, I was jarred back into the world of reality.

“The man the witness saw me with… he’s… he’s a medicine man. My son is epileptic, and the man has been giving me medicine to manage his sickness in exchange for working on his farm. I couldn’t let anyone know since… since I didn’t want anyone to know of my son’s condition. How could I? I engaged in an abominable affair, my daughter’s wolf isn’t out and then my only son is suddenly epileptic? How could I say that? I would be more of an outcast than I already am,” my mother said and tears began to fall from her eyes, as she leaned towards one more shot at getting us out of the situation.

Luke Carter laughed out boisterously. “You just gave everyone here a better reason to even want you out of our Pack. You are a disgrace to us and you’ve just explained how much unfit you are for the Midnight Howl Pack. The Alpha’s judgement would definitely stand,” he said.

“You’re not the Alpha. Let the Alpha…”

My mum was cut off by the Beta coming from nowhere and violently slashing her arm. She screamed in anguish as blood gushed out in rapid motion.

“Mum!” I screamed, dragging myself to my feet even though I was handcuffed.

“Who are you to think you can speak to royalty that way?” the Beta asked, with much irritation visible on his face.

My mum looked over at the Alpha, and tears fell from her eyes. “What are you waiting for? Why are you standing there in shock like you didn’t anticipate this when you condemned me to death? Tell them to finish me off. But whatever you do, don’t forget the promise you made to me,” she said.

“What nonsense is she talking about? What did the Alpha promise her? Does she know the Alpha?” These were the questions the people curiously asked in not-so-hushed tones.

“Silence her already,” Luke Carter commanded Jeremy in a low tone.

“No, no, you can’t!” I pleaded, falling to my knees just as I had managed to stand.

“Alpha, do something, please,” my brother said for the first time that dreadful night. He hardly spoke, and I could sense the urgency in his voice and the desperation in his eyes as he turned to look at the Alpha, who just looked away, refraining from saying something… refraining from doing anything.

“I can’t let you kill my mother. Please, kill me instead. She has gone through so much. She doesn’t deserve to die this way. Let’s… we’ll leave the Pack and never return. Please, let my mum go… please,” I cried, hiccuping as I spoke; tension rising in the air.

“Kill her! Kill them! Kill her! Kill them!” the members of the Pack chanted, showing no sympathy, showing no compassion; even though they knew deep down that my mother had committed no crime.

Before I could blink an eye, Jeremy was already in front of my mother. My heart pounded really hard in fear and I pinched myself hard, hoping I could wake up from this nightmare already. I stretched out my hand to try and put an end to it, praying silently for the Moon Goddess to intervene and stop what was going to be inevitable; praying for Mother Nature to do something to disrupt the process; praying for a miracle from any god whatsoever.

However, that day, all the gods were asleep. No one heard me. No one pitied me. No one cared to help me out of my predicament.

Just like that, Jeremy, the head-tracker, stretched forth his sword and my brother, who had somehow wriggled himself from the loose rope he had been tied with and rolled onto my mother, covering her with his arms.

“No!” my voice echoed throughout every part of our large territory, and maybe even beyond, as I watched with dreadful horror the visible shock on my mother’s face, and how Jeremy thrust in the sword so deeply that it went through my brother and to my mother whom he had been trying to protect and onto the stake.

“What did you do?” my mum asked.

“I wanted to protect you like you’ve always protected me,” I heard him say, and I began to sob uncontrollably.

I stared blankly at the sword in the Beta’s hand, but then, I heard my mother’s final words to me.

“You must survive. You’re all we have left,” and with that, they tumbled over with the stake and fell with a loud thud on the ground; son on top of mother, and it wasn’t long before their eyes both closed.

It’s scary, you know. Life is scary. How are people alive in one moment and then, the next, they’re just gone? Although I had seen it happen with my own eyes, I couldn’t believe it.

The shock was still registering in my brain when a hard object hit my head and I slumped to the ground; the darkness swallowing me whole to the point where I thought I might not be able to fulfil my mother’s last wish.