Page 250 of Omega for the Pack

“Please sit,” said the bathroom guy who had given me the dating agency card.

Swallowing nervously, I walked inside the conference room- feeling like this was a job interview instead of a dating agency where single omegas looked for love.

It wasn’t very welcoming, and I could already see what needed to be done to re-design this room. Make it warm and welcoming for omegas. If they were going out of business, I wouldn’t be surprised.

I clumsily pulled out a chair, blushing when it almost toppled over. The rain from my umbrella dripped loudly onto the marble floors in the quiet of the room. I tucked it between my feet under the chair hurriedly.

“The rain out there is pretty crazy,” I said awkwardly. I was trying to break some of the tension in the room, and I didn’t dare look in Bruce’s direction. He probably understood why I didn’t respond to his text this morning.

“It sure is. The rain’s coming down hard,” observed the bathroom guy, looking at me with a slight tilt of his head. He waspretty intimidating but hot as fuck when he wasn’t rushing away from me in a hurry. “I’m Caleb.”

Okay. So the bathroom guy had a name.

Caleb introduced the alpha with the short red hair next to him as Dravin, who was stocky, and the blond alpha with messy ringlets was Nick. Then there was Bruce.

I nodded as if I was meeting Bruce for the first time. Thank god he didn’t say anything about meeting me yesterday.

He kept things professional, and I relaxed more in my chair.

“We will ask you a few questions to make sure you’re a good match for the pack,” said Nick. “Is that okay with you, Miss Jade?”

He was quickly writing down a few things on a piece of paper. He looked like he didn’t like wasting time on small talk and worked quickly.

“Yes,” I said.

“How old are you?” he asked, his gray eyes staring into mine. It was unnerving.

“Twenty-eight,” I said. He didn’t bat an eye as he wrote that down.

Bruce asked me the next question, and I was totally unprepared for it.

“Why are you here, Jade?”

He wasn’t looking down at his papers or anything. He was fully focused on me, which made me even more nervous as I scrambled to gather my thoughts. All I could focus on was the stupid umbrella dripping all over my shoes and soaking my feet.

“I’m here to look for love,” I said vaguely, looking down at the table, studying each fissure of the wooden material.

“Why haven’t you found love?”

“I was very focused on my career, and before I knew it, I was getting older,” I said.

“What do you work as?” asked Caleb, crossing his hands on the table.

“Nurse,” I replied slowly. I wasn’t sure if I should tell them the entire truth of it all. That I was broke and needed a wealthy alpha pack to save my ass. It was embarrassing but not something I was going to readily admit.

“I sense something is off with that answer,” said Caleb. “I’ve been interviewing for years. Are you lying about something, omega?”

“Iama nurse, but I quit to pursue my real passion for art and design,” I said.Damn him. He was smart and could detect a lie. Some alphas were like that, and not all were blundering tall macho men.

“So, unemployed?” asked Nick, writing furiously on his clipboard.

My stomach flipped.Were they going to reject me now?

“That’s perfect,” said Caleb. “Exactly what the Onyxpaw Pack are looking for. They are old-fashioned, looking for a nice homely omega. All we need to do now is get your measurements, and we can set up an official meeting with your future pack.”

Oh no, I thought.Did they want a compliant, unemployed omega?!I wasn’t sure if I wanted this after all.

“Measurements?”

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