Knot So Perfect Omega (Omega Match #1)(64)

We made it to the practice area and Brian nearly clotheslined me as we filed in through the door.

“Put the phone away.”

“Dude. What the actual fuck? I am a grown-ass man.” I rarely lost my temper, but I was about to. I shoved past him and backed the camera footage up to nine when we left.

“We are less than thirty minutes away from game time now. I need you four to focus. Surely your omega is fine.”

“Weren’t you the one who pushed for us to have an omega?” Rylan snapped, setting his phone down on a bench and taking off down the half-field doing high knees.

“The gate was definitely shut.” I put the feed on a slow fast forward.

“Here, I’ll watch the damn thing and you go get warmed up.” Brian held out his hand for Beck’s phone.

“It’s on three times the speed.” I handed him the phone and put mine on the bench next to Rio’s and Rylan’s.

I took off across the field, running through the quick agility drills we did before every game and then grabbed a weighted ball to toss back and forth with Beck to warm up our arms.

“How the hell are we going to focus if we’re worried about Kayla? We should have just brought her with us and kept her next to us the whole time,” Rio said from next to me where he was tossing a ball with Rylan.

“Like we’d be able to focus with her here. We’d be looking for her every second. She’s probably just taking a nap or something.” If we thought things were bad now with us worrying, when we bonded it was going to be crazy.

“She said she was going to watch us so she should be texting or calling us back soon.” Rio caught the ball and didn’t throw it again. “I think I’m good with my warm-up since our first game will be like playing for fun.”

“You can say that again.” Beck jogged in with our ball and we walked as a pack over to the benches where Brian was to grab our phones. “Anything on the camera?”

“No. It seems to have opened by itself. Probably needs to be checked by a technician.” Brian handed Beck his phone back. “All ready to win this thing?”

“Do you even have to ask?” Rylan walked to the door leading back to the main corridor of the stadium. “Let’s roll some heads!”

We all shouted in agreement and my excitement started to grow. I was stronger, faster, and had more energy than I had in months. There was no way we were giving up the win.

Outside of the practice room, the rest of our team was waiting for us, including our team doctor in case one of us was injured, our publicist, and a photographer. Waiting on the field for us were a few teenagers we’d met at the foodbank when volunteering, who would be giving us water and our towels when we needed them.

We liked to keep our game day entourage small so we weren’t distracted by them, so the rest of the people that made our team tick but didn’t need to be on the field were in a private box to watch the game.

There was a commotion back down the hallway where our locker room was, and we all turned at the exact moment Kayla came barreling through two security guards that were in the hall outside the door.

One of them snagged her around the waist and practically threw her into the wall, pinning her there with his massive body.

The growls that ripped out of the four of us were unlike anything I’d ever experienced. I’d growled plenty in my life, but never from somewhere buried so deep inside it almost felt like it was from another person.

The security guards and Kayla all looked our way as N’Pact rounded the corner at the end of the hall at a sprint.

We moved toward the security guards and Kayla as a wall of raging alpha. Beck was slightly in front of us, his body taut and ready to fight. “Let her go.” His bark was fierce enough to immediately cause the security guard to back off Kayla.

“Damn, I think my nuts just retreated a little.” Cal cackled from where they were approaching from the opposite side of the corridor. “See, we told you that running ahead was a bad idea, Kayla.”

“Back up,” Beck barked at the two men, who were also alphas but had claim bites on their necks.

“She’s ours.”

The guy who had shoved her against the wall held up his hands and backed up several steps, heeding Beck’s warning. “Our apologies, but when we tried to stop her for her credentials to be in this area, she didn’t have them, and then when we asked who she belonged to, she said no one and ran. We were just doing our jobs.”

Pride swelled in my chest, not just because she’d gotten around two massive security guards, but because she hadn’t changed even after her heat left her dependent on us.

I was the first to her and put my hand on her arms. “What are you doing here, sweetheart? We’ve been trying to call you.”

Knocking my hands away, she bent over with her hands on her knees, her breaths coming in pants from running. “Broke my phone. Had to escape OPS. Brian.”

“OPS? Escape them? What does Brian have to do with that?” She held up a finger to tell me to give her a minute while she caught her breath.

She straightened suddenly, her eyes going straight past us to the empty hallway behind us. “Where is he?”

At the same time, Beck stepped past the security guards to N’Pact, his fists clenched at his sides.

“What the hell are you guys doing here and why do you smell like our omega?” Beck stepped toward N’Pact, his fists clenched at his sides.