The Stained Omega by Elle T Jefferson novel Chapter 124

Ghost stories. 

(Anna) 

I back out of the tent as carefully as possible so I don’t wake Thomas and Ander. After the cook out I thought it would be a good idea to bring Thomas and a few of his friends out to the forest just past our guard for a little camp out. Now the kids are all tucked away in their tents, we adults can have a little fun, zipping the tent up. I see Fraction, Patrick, Eliza and James all sitting around a small campfire drinking beers. I smile as I watch my family all laugh at something Patrick says, Fraction turns to me and holds his hand out. As soon as I am close enough he pulls me down to him so I’m sitting between his legs. 

“Ok, let’s do some adult ghost stories.” Patrick says as he swaps Eliza’s empty beer for a full one. 

“Are you trying to get me drunk?” Eliza asks around a laugh. 

“Always, kitten.” I smile at them suddenly understanding the inside. joke she was talking about before. 

“Wait, Anna won’t of heard The Shalamayne story before.” James and Fraction both groan as Eliza gets all excited, she sits up straighter and moves her hair from her face. 

“What’s that?” I ask looking around at them all. 

“A story to keep wild shifters in line,” Fraction whispers in my ear. 

“If you’re bad enough, The Shalamaynes will come for you,” Fraction, Rick and James all say at the same time before howling with laughter. I 

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can’t help but feel like I’m missing out, it’s not like I grew up around these kind of stories. 

“What’s a Shalamayne?” I ask looking around at the group, Fractions. arms snake around my waist and he gives me a slight reassuring 

squeeze. 

“Go on then, tell it.” Fraction says to Eliza, I watch James drop back so he’s holding himself up on his arms with his legs spread out in front of him. 

“You don’t have to if you have all heard it before,” the last thing I want is to make them all bored when I’ve pretty much forced them all to be here. Eliza waves her hand in the air and clears her throat. 

“So the story starts way back when shifters first came to these lands. Apparently this was when they lived in mud huts and instead of Packs they had villages, well apparently then they also had royalty. One Alpha that ruled them all, only back then you couldn’t be Alpha without a mate and Felro, had no mate.” Eliza is using her best storytelling voice as we all listen to her. 

“Felro?” I can’t help but question the absurd name. 

“Shush.” Patrick shushes me with a broad smile on his face, clearly getting into the story. 

“So Felro set out on his journey to find a mate, he travelled from village to village. Until one day he came across a woman who smelled. like the very Earth itself, she was everything he had been looking for except she wasn’t a shifter. She was a human who knew nothing of our world, as he got to know her he found her to be caring and kind. Instead of telling her about his true nature he hid it from her, he would take care of his Alpha duties by dead of night and be a dutiful human husband during the day. It wasn’t long before his human was round with baby, however the woman was no fool and knew her husband was 

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sneaking off somewhere in the night.” I squint my eyes at Eliza not really seeing how this is meant to be scary. It sounds like any other wolf looking for his mate just a long time ago. 

“This isn’t much of a ghost story.” I say in a whisper to Fraction but I see Eliza stick her tongue out at me so I give her a wide smile and a nod to carry on. 

“It gets better, little wolf.” Fraction k*sses the top of my head, “go on Eliza.” 

“When Felro was doing his night time jobs he came across a small Omega called Bethel. Turns out this Omega was his fated mate so he started to court her, eventually Felro had his human wife by day and his shifter mate by night.” Eliza smiles at me as she mentions an Omega and I just roll my eyes. “One night his human wife followed him and saw him entangled with his Omega. She watched as he made love to her over and over again. Hatching a plan she went back to their little hut and created a meal especially for her lover, in the meadow not too far from their home a purple plant grew that she knew her husband was allergic too. Little did she know it was wolfsbane, so when he ate the laced food the next evening he became very ill and was unable to make his nightly visit to Bethel.” 

“So this is a woman scorned story?” I ask as I empty my bottle of beer and hand it to Fraction. 

“Anna.” James complains from his lounge position, for someone who didn’t look interested he’s paying attention now. 

“The human woman, heavy with her baby, walked back to where she had watched her husband with this other woman. She was armed with nothing but a simple silver knife, she had been gifted it by her father on her wedding night. She crept into the hut where the Omega slept and slit her throat, the woman never woke. Confident that justice had 

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been done she made her way home, when she got there Felro smelled the blood of his mate on his wife and in a blind rage he shifted into his. beast.” I gasp as Fractions hand tighten around me, “blinded in grief Felro killed his pregnant wife. 

“Wow that was awful but not exactly…scary.” I can’t imagine the anger a mate must feel when they find out someone has killed their other half. I can’t help but feel Felro’s rage was justified but then again the poor human was pregnant. 

“Tell her the rest.” Fraction mutters as he rests his bearded chin on the top of my head. 

“Well, apparently after he killed his wife the villagers chased him away and tried to save the woman. She was too far gone and soon died but they did manage to save her baby, as the child grew it became clear that he was no shifter but he was also no human. He was something in between, a cross between the two. All the power of a shifter without the animal to hold him back, he spent years learning about his past and his father. They say that his bloodline still goes on today, they hunt. shifters and punish them for Felro’s wrong doing all those years ago. Apparently, if you are bad enough…” Eliza looks at each of the guys. and pauses. 

“The Shalamayne will come for you and your loved ones will never see you again.” I actually jump as all of them say it unison and then burst out laughing.