Page 60 of The Omega Archives: Part Two

What was she doing right now? Did she get enough sleep? I thought I heard her wandering the halls last night.

Did she feel safe?

Would she know that she could eat anything in the kitchen? Ihadn’teventhought to askif she had any allergies or dietary restrictions.

Would she not like being left alone? Would she run again?I knewthatshe said shewouldn’t,yetthe thought bothered me.Ididn’twant her to leave the house. Sure, I barely knew her, but I cared enough. Ididn’twant anything to happen to her.

Every moment it came back to the omega.

Icouldn’tdecide whether I was worried or slowly driving myself up a wall. The others in the office kept a wide berth from me as if they could see the unsettled nature of my alpha crawling up my spine.

Cal was supposed to go and check up on her. Had he already? If he had, whydidn’the message me with an update?

My work was my purpose alongside my pack ever since Liam and I found Markoandit quickly became official that none of us were the lone wolf type of alphas wewere raisedto be.Itmade surewe were taken care ofand safe and just finewithmy familypeeking over our shoulders constantly.

No. Not anymore.

I hoisted myself up to my feet.Grabbedmy jacket off the back of my chair along with my bag, Iwas already halfway to the door before I realized exactly where I was going.Atthe small desk outside of my office, my assistant tried to keep upas she stumbled at my pace.

“Mr. Prestford. Ididn’texpect you to be out,”she cleared her throat to appear less frazzled. Whichwas a difficult task.

My assistant was alwaysin a state offrazzledit seemedsinceI hired her out of college as a favor to some work colleagues, aunt, or something.She did, however, do her job well enough.

“Can I assist you with anything?” She asked.

“I’mquite alright, Ms. Martinez.”

“Okay,”she nodded.“Just keeping you up to date, Mr. Walter called earlier and needs to reschedule the meeting at the end of the week about your initiative with Omega Services next month.”

At this point, there was only one omega I was concerned about.“I’mgoing home.”

“Home?”she repeated, as if unfamiliar with the term.

Honestly, I was unfamiliar with it myself these days.

“I’mdone for the day.”

“Done? Are you sure?”she stuttered as she tried to keep up with me on her tiny heels.“You have a meeting after lunch– oh,and a lunch commitment at one.We did confirm. Did you hear thatit was canceled? Ihadn’tgotten the memo through email quite yet.”

“No, Mirabel,” I said. She stopped talking.I’mpretty sure she never even knew I knew her first name. It sure worked wonders right now.“I am taking the rest of the day off. Cancel it.”

“Cancel–”

I probablyshouldn'thave been as irritated as I was by her questioning me. I never canceled a meeting.

Huh. First time for everything.

I had a feeling that allwas going togo to plan for my pack. There would be a lot of firsts coming up. But Icouldn’tget ahead of myself, mainly for my pack. We all knew what happened when we jumped at something before considering the consequences. And my, did Ella perhaps have more than a few?

Theyjustdidn’tseem all that important when I saw how the rest of my bonds reacted to her.

I made my way out the door towards the lobby. Another person fell into step beside me.

“Did I just hear that we’re leaving?” Marko asked slowly without emotion.

I narrowed my eyes as I glanced at him. Still, we made our way out towards the parking garage.“You’restill here?”

“I haven’t been assigned anywhere else.”

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