“I know I can’t erase who I am.” “Were,” Zera pushes. “What?” he asks sounding more like she’d bit him instead of the food. “Who you were, you mean. You can’t erase who you were,” Zera hushes our Omega’s need to soothe him. “Vivian spent most of our life without us, masking us, so we couldn’t surface; so we couldnt be taken against our will. She called us slaves to our own biology, and as much as I hate that term, we were. She both took and gave us life. The fact that she cant push forward right now is sort of welcomed and frustrating at once. But even she is trying.” That’s the moment I truly feel seen. “She can’t stay the person she is. We change every day. Some days more than others,” she paused to look up at him. Alexander pointed back to the dish not wanting Zera to stop. Thi