Mira slowly began to regain consciousness. Before she even opened her eyes, she waited for the pain. She remembered the whip.
She remembered the burning agony tearing across her already wounded back. She remembered seeing the Head Omega raise the whip toward Julia and realizing that her pregnant friend was going to be struck. She remembered moving without thinking. Then pain. So much pain. And after that… darkness.
Mira expected that pain to return the moment she woke. She expected every part of her body to ache. She expected the familiar burning from the wounds across her back, the weakness that had settled deep into her bones after days of exhaustion and punishment.
But instead, she felt something completely different. Warmth. Peace.
For the first time in what felt like forever, her
