(This is a male/male shifter fantasy romance set in the omega verse. Hope you enjoy.)
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I realized just a little too late that perhaps I should have rethought my whole approach. When the door swung open and I was met with a pair of amber eyes glaring menacingly at me, I immediately froze. I held up at hand, ready to explain myself, explain why I was standing in the middle of a bedroom, in a mansion, on land I hadn't been invited to when the heavily muscled, over six foot tall, Adonis of a man I had never met before, suddenly shifted into a very large, very scary and very angry lion.
I had only a moment to react when the enormous cat suddenly lunged at me, his intention clear. Kill the threat. The problem was, I wasn't a threat, but he didn't know that. I dodged the attack quickly, faster than he had expected, dropped to the floor and rolled under the bed. I was out the other side and plastered against the door before he even realized that I had moved. My heart pounded, my hands shook with fear and I knew I had to do something before he eviscerated me. I was strong, but I could tell instantly that he was stronger and more deadly.
"Wait!" I pleaded with the beast, unsure if he could even understand me while he was shifted. Unfortunately, my knowledge of shifters was limited and I definitely didn't know enough about them to go head to head with an obvious alpha, possibly the Pride leader himself, which was completely probable seeing as it was his bedroom I had broken into. "I know this looks bad, but I came here for help so please, don't hurt me."
Apparently my pleas fell on deaf ears because the next thing I knew, he had leapt onto the bed. It caved in under his weight and fell to the floor with a loud crunch. When he lunged at me a second time, I was barely able to drop to the floor and scramble away. A loud and very animated warning growl erupted from the animal. My sensitive ears vibrating from the sound as I scooted myself across the floor and away from his claws which, had just sliced through the main door of the room.
I didn't want to fight him. I knew I could never win plus, I didn't want to injure him in anyway. That was never my purpose so all I could do was try to get away from him and hope, pray, that he calmed down enough that I could actually talk to him.
Yeah, I really didn't think this through. My mistake.
I backed up against a wall in my attempt to flee. Mistake number two. Now I was cornered, trapped, and there didn't seem to be anyway for me to escape. I was certain that in any moment my small, fragile, body would be crushed between his massive jaws. Yeah, he was that big, way larger than an ordinary lion. It was no wonder to me that his pride lived so high up in the mountains, far from humans and prying eyes. This definitely wasn't a smart idea, but it was too late now. I'd fucked up and was about to pay the price for my stupidity.
Just when he was about to go in for the killing strike, the clawed and nearly shattered door was flung open and my salvation entered the room in the form of a very pissed off omega lion whom, though I had not seen him in almost ten years, I instantly recognized. He was, after-all, the one I had come for, the one I knew would help me. That is, if I could keep his mate from ripping me to shreds first.
"What the hell is going on in here? Liam! Look what you've done to our room!"
The giant lion stopped his attack and turned to his mate who, by now, was standing with his hands on his hips and glaring at the both of us. For a moment, I think he actually looked scarier than his alpha.
"Jai!" I squeaked from the corner of the room, struggling to get to my feet. I didn't make a move toward him. Liam was standing between us and any movement on my part would have looked like an attempted attack on Jai.
Jai turned to me and for a moment, confusion clouded his face before he finally recognized who it was he was staring at. "Ash?" He questioned, a hint of disbelief in his voice. "Is that really you?"
I understood his shock. I looked way different than the nine year old boy I had been the last time he saw me. Jai, on the other hand, looked just as I'd remembered him. Maybe a little older. He'd filled out more and had a couple more inches on him but he basically looked the same. The same jet black hair though now reaching mid back, the same dark brown eyes and the same flawless, porcelain skin. He was smaller than his mate, standing about five foot ten inches, maybe. Still taller than me though and with more muscle.
When I saw him last he was just sixteen, scrawny and while good looking at the time, he wasn't the beauty that he was now. He'd changed so much and yet stayed the same. His eyes were probably the most familiar and most easily recognizable feature he had because I saw them almost everyday. They were just like mine, a trait we had both inherited from our father.
"Yeah, Jai." I smiled, tearing up. "It's me."
The look on his face was hard to read. He just stood there, staring at me, letting it sink in that he was standing in his own bedroom and staring at the kid brother he'd left behind nine years ago.
