Knot So Perfect Omega (Omega Match #1)(67)

I KNEW AS SOON as we set foot in the tunnel from the field that something was wrong. My omega senses were tingling, and I squeezed Rio’s and Beck’s hands as we walked toward the locker room.

They must have sensed it too because their relaxed demeanors were quickly replaced with tension.

We turned the corner, and there was a group of OPS agents and police officers outside the locker room. Their heads immediately turned our way and my stomach plummeted.

“This should be fun,” Rylan muttered. “Didn’t the security guards take Brian to the security office?”

“They’re here for me. I ran from them at the house.” I pulled free of Beck and Rio and walked farther in front of them.

The police were the ones that reacted though. They walked right past me. “Beckett Thomas?”

“That’s me.” He sighed, seeming to already know what was about to happen. Why else would they be asking him to identify himself?

All the happiness I’d felt over the win vanished as one of the offers stepped forward. “You’re under arrest for possession and use of heat stimulant pills.” The officer took out his cuffs. “Turn around.”

“What the fuck?” Beck took a step back. “I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.”

“You have the wrong guy. Brian Stokes was taken by stadium security for tampering with her pills.” Rio didn’t move from where he was standing but put his hand on Beck’s back, stopping him from retreating.”

“We’ve found heat stimulant pills in his bag matching the same pills that were given to Ms.

Sterling.” One of the OPS officers held up a clear evidence bag with two containers of pills. “We also found the heat suppressants that we believe belong to Ms. Sterling.”

This couldn’t be happening.

“That’s insane! She’s my mate, I wouldn’t do something like this to her!” Beck’s face turned red, and his hands were shaking at his sides. “I haven’t seen those pills before.”

“Are you going to make a scene or are you going to come willingly?” The officer never took his eyes off Beck. “Given the circumstances, I would suggest your full cooperation.”

“Just go, Beck. I’ll call the lawyers.” Rio had his phone out and to his ear.

“Wait! Don’t I have a say in this? I think it’s a little soon to be making arrests when you haven’t dusted for fingerprints or done anything else. They could have been planted there!” I put myself between Beck and the officer, ready to protect him from being taken from me.

“Ms. Sterling, you’re going to have to come with us until we get this sorted. We might have found the pills in Beck’s possession, but the entire pack is implicated in this.” One of the women who worked for OPS stepped forward, a saddened expression on her face. “I know this is tough, but let us run our investigation.”

“You can run your investigation while I stay at the house with my pack.” I was almost twenty-three freaking years old; they couldn’t force me to go to an omega compound.

Could they?

“The other alternative is to go with your family. We’ll have to send two beta OPS agents with you, but it should be fine since you are no longer in your heat. I’ll need to confirm with your mother when her last heat was. Either way, you aren’t going to be able to stay with your pack while we ensure your safety.”

My shoulders slumped, and I felt like I’d been kicked in the gut. “She only gets them once a year now and she just had it about a month ago.” If there was no way they were going to let me stay with the pack, then going to my parents was at least something. “What about Brian? He was betting on the game.”

Everyone seemed to be forgetting about that slime bucket, and I wasn’t about to let him get away with something so heinous. It was one thing to switch out my heat suppressants, but to replace them with heat accelerants…?

Only omega doctors could prescribe those, and only under certain conditions. Omegas that took them usually had a medical condition of some kind or their heats didn’t trigger their mate’s rutting, meaning they couldn’t get pregnant.

But for an omega in good health to take them? No wonder it had been like World War III in my womb.

“Let’s go grab a bag from the house and then we’ll do a formal interview at OPS’s headquarters before we take you to your parents’.” The other OPS agent came forward and gently put her hand on my arm.

“Go, Kayla. It’s better that you aren’t in the middle of everything.” Beck stepped around me and looked over his shoulder. “It’ll be okay. Let us get all of this situated so you can come home to us.”

“But… I…” The OPS agent gently pushed at my shoulder to get me moving. “Wait. Let me say goodbye.”

I moved back toward Beck and threw my arms around him. He sighed into my neck, kissing me there before pulling away, his jaw set with tension and anger. “He won’t get away with this.”

“No. He won’t.” I kissed him before he went to the officers who didn’t handcuff him, but placed him in front of them as they headed toward the exit at the end of the corridor.

“Kayla girl, it’s going to be okay.” Kane turned me to face him, and I buried my face in his chest as he started purring. “Think of this as a little vacation to see your family.”