Page 446 of Omega for the Pack

There was no way I was going to let it happen again.

With rage simmering inside me, I burst out of the bathroom and stomped back down the stairs with tears streaming down my face- my towel still wrapped around my body. The men stopped talking and looked at me with widened eyes.

“Out! All of you!” I screamed. I saw nothing but red right now.

“What are you saying?” asked Ryder slowly as he got up from the couch. Ready to walk over to me and threaten me again.

Like hell, he would.

“You’re fucking fired,” I shouted. “Get out of my house. No one ever lays a finger on me like that, and this will be the last time it ever happens. I never want to see your faces again.”

“Are you sure, Lacy?”

“I’m damn sure,” I said, seething internally.

“If that’s what you want, then,” said Ryder, stony-faced. He nodded to his team. “Get all your things.”

“Lacy, we’re sorry,” said Adrian, his eyes flicking between me and Ryder. There was nothing but tension between us, and my heart raced with rage and adrenaline.

“I spent years building myself up,” I said. “I’m not about to let all of you ruin it for me. None of you defended me when Ryder went crazy on me. None of you helped me when I wanted to leave the house to have some fun or even go to work.”

The men looked morose and upset as they gathered their weapons, hiding in every crevice of my house. I gripped my toweltightly to my chest as I watched them. The air conditioner dried the tears on my cheeks while I stood there like a statue at the bottom of the staircase.

Adrian and Cooper tried talking to me, but I wasn’t having it.

I didn’t want to hear from any of them. The heartbreak on the men’s faces was evident when they finally knew I wasn’t their omega and that there would never be a chance of us happening. When they were finally leaving, Ryder looked back at me again at the front door.

“It was great knowing you, Lacy,” he said. “I’m sorry if I scared you. Don’t be reckless, and take care of yourself. Okay?”

Something about him standing there, looking at me with sadness in his eyes, made me want to bawl and cry. But I held myself together.

Be strong, Lacy.

“Have a good night,” I said. He gave me one last lingering look, and I closed the door behind him. Taking a deep breath, I looked up at the ceiling and saw that all the cameras they had installed were gone. Good riddance.

But as I walked up the stairs, I was crying again.Damn, these tears. I hadn’t cried like this in such a long time, and it was ridiculous. The house suddenly felt barren, empty, and quiet when the armored car zoomed off. Once I was in my room, I grabbed my phone and dialed Olivia’s number.

After I told her what happened, I needed her to tell me I was being stupid for feeling this way. I really needed her support right about now. But the phone rang and rang- so I ended the call, sighing.

I felt uneasy, and something was nagging at me, but I couldn’t place it.

I was sleeping peacefullyuntil I woke up to a hand gripping my waist.

My eyes flew open, and I saw a hulking figure standing over me in the darkness of my room with his hand on my waist. I tried to scream, but there was a cloth wrapped around my mouth. Heart-pounding wildly, I reached out to push him away, but my hands were tied behind my back.

“Settle down, pinkie,” he said, his voice muffled with a mask.

No. No. No.

I thought I had locked all the doors. I even double-checked before going to bed.

Heart racing within my chest, he lifted me effortlessly over his shoulder like I was a bag of potatoes. I tried to kick and squirm out of his grasp, but it was useless. He carried me down the stairs like I weighed nothing at all.

“You shouldn’t have left that ladder at your window,” he said, chuckling, and I groaned at how dimwitted I was. First, I leave the ladder for easy access and then fire the only bodyguards willing to put up with me.

I was basically a sitting duck.

I tried to scream even with the rag wrapped around my mouth, just in case anyone could hear my muffled yells. I looked up and saw that he was walking towards a black car with tinted windows. Sunrise was starting to show, and I realized it was already the next morning. When I head butt his ear, he didn’t budge an inch. I knew it had to hurt him even a little because my own head was hurting.

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