Page 10 of His Pretty Omega
I said what I said.
As a lawyer, I never condoned stealing, but needs must.
My eyes caught on a folded piece of paper on the nightstand, propped against the landline phone. Pushing up on one elbow, I grabbed it, reading the words quickly.
Thanks for starting my year off with a bang. It was fun!
That was it. That was all he wrote. He didn’t sign it. He didn’t even give a clue he knew what we were to each other.
He’d had a good time. Correction, he’d had a great time.
My heart ached with a need I couldn’t decipher and didn’t recognize.
Maybe he did know,my wolf said sadly. Maybe he’s taking the out clause.
My stomach sank at his words, my mouth going dry with dread, and I swallowed against the bile that threatened to come up the back of my throat.
The Goddess Fate had made a few rules when it came to fated mates. At least according to the legends. One of them being what people referred to as “the out clause”. Which basically said if fated mates decided they didn’t want to be together, didn’t want to mate, they could walk away. Go their separate ways, and live a life of happiness, without their fated. They could even meet, fall in love, and mate with someone that wasn’t their fated.
It never seemed to work, from what I knew. Mates could try to walk away, and could for awhile. Sometimes even years, but Fate always got her way, bringing the fated mates back together.
It was that thought I held onto as I packed my bag to check out, folding the note he had left me and placing it carefully in my wallet.
“Okay, Fate,” I whispered, walking to my car, the chill biting and causing puffs of white to form in the air as I spoke, “I’m having faith in you. Because I don’t even know his name, and I have no way to find him. So I’m gonna need you to work your goddess magic and bring him back to me.”
I refused to think about the fact that he very well might be doing exactly what my wolf had suggested.
That he might not want me as his fated and he might be walking away.
And without even knowing his name, I had no clue where to begin to find him.
So far, this year hadn’t started off great.
Sighing softly as I turned my car out of the hotel parking lot towards the highway, I headed for Sweet Alps and home, trying to push away the sadness that was churning in my gut.
The Goddess had put our paths together last night and I need to trust that she would do it again. I just hoped it was sooner rather than later.
Chapter Five
Seth
“I’m here, I’m here, I made it!”
I’d driven as fast as I dared to, pushing it even on the highway, to make it back to Sweet Alps before Bennett delivered. Thankfully, there had been very little traffic, most people likely sleeping off their celebrations the night before. There had been just a couple of cops on the highway but I had seen them in plenty of time to slow down to a decent enough speed for them to not bother me.
Unfortunately, the long drive had given me too much time for my mind to keep wandering back to the sexy alpha I had left in the hotel. Every few miles I would remember something from the night before; a whispered word, a touch, the way his knot had filled and stretched me inthe most delicious way. It didn’t help that I kept feeling like I had forgotten something important. The feeling was so strong that when I stopped at a rest area to pee and grab a much needed bottle of water, I opened my trunk and went through my suitcase to try to figure out what–if anything–I had left behind.
Finally I came to the conclusion that the only thing I had left behind was the incredible in bed, nameless alpha and I needed to get the fuck over it. He wasn’t the first alpha I had left before they had woken up, and I seriously doubted he would be the last.
There was absolutely nothing special about him, I finally decided as I made the turn towards the hospital. Nothing special at all.
You’re never going to see him again, so let it go. Focus on Bennett and the baby.
Fudging a bit, I parked in the employee parking lot, even though I hadn’t worked at the hospital in years. Hopefully no one was paying that much attention or would care, and I wouldn’t find my car towed when I returned. It was closer to the entrance, and I didn’t have a minute to waste. If I wasn’t there for Bennett before he delivered, I’d never forgive myself.
My boots clomped loudly in the hallway as I ran past the nurses station, waving to the head labor and delivery nurse as she glared at me. My rotation in L&D hadn’t gone great,and she had taken an instant dislike to me. Didn’t seem like her opinion had changed much over the years.
“No running!” Her sharp voice instructed as I huffed toward the room Bennett told me had been assigned to him. Goddess, these boots were not made for running and neither were my lungs.
