I’m here to get my bruises checked after the team doctor frowned at my chest and then kicked me out. It’s also a good excuse to get an extra hour for lunch.
I’m just leaving when it happens. I don’t get a look at the omega’s face as they tumble down in the waiting room, but I’m already running. There’s shouts, and people rush toward the omega, but I get there first. Because no way is anyone else touching them.
As I lean down and they look up at me, meeting me with scared eyes, I know for sure. There isn’t a single chance I’m letting them go without holding them in my arms. The perfume is enough to tell me that my omega needs me, and I have to be there for them.
I can’t tell if they’re a man or a woman, but it doesn’t matter when they reach out and clutch my arm.
Possessiveness burns through me as I glare at the others drawing close, especially alphas who are creeping forward with the same hunger in their eyes that’s firing up in me.
A nurse dashes toward us in green scrubs and kneels beside us.
“Do you know them?” she asks.
“Yes, they’re my mate. I’ll take care of them,” I say confidently, though I’m pretty sure it’s not going to fly. I could be any alpha rocking up to claim I’m theirs.
“Kane,” the omega whispers as they grip my sleeve. “Help me.”
My heart leaps and sinks at the same time because I hope to hell they aren’t some crazy fan who happens to be my scent match.
“Is he really your mate?” the nurse asks.
The omega nods, and that seems to be enough for her.
“We have emergency heat rooms if you need to deal with this quickly,” the nurse says. “And I’ll need to see your identification. Do you have proof you’re a pack?”
“We haven’t exchanged bites yet,” I say. But we could change that.
“Very well, this way,” she says as she stands.
I blink at her, because it isn’t great how she’s just taking my word for it as I wrap my arms around my omega, and they tremble.
But the nurse is also looking at me with shining eyes, and it’s obvious she also knows who I am. So I guess it follows the tradition of letting sports players get away with whatever they want.
My omega tugs at the collar of my shirt and murmurs against my chest, so I won’t argue. I plan on being a hypocrite and complaining to someone about it later.
“Just hold on,” I say to them as I rise, and the nurse leads us away. Holding them in a princess carry as people watch us fills me with absolute pride.
Is it sad that I already want to introduce them to Timber and see what he thinks? Because if by some miracle, Timber actually does want to be with an omega, then maybe I can find a way to make us a pack.
I’m going at a million miles an hour considering they’ve only said three words to me, but I’m too excited to worry about that right now.
Their back arches, and a moan echoes through them before they bury their face in my chest, and I purr with satisfaction.
“We’ll have to register you formally for our records once you and your omega have calmed down,” the nurse says, blushing as she watches us.
“Of course, yeah. I’ll do all the paperwork. Just let me in.”
The second the door to the heat room closes behind us, they grab my shoulders and yank me down. I gasp as maple syrup lips meet mine, and passion burns between us.
I rock back against the door, using it to hold me up as I sink deeper into the kiss. Their moans grow more frantic, and they lick at my lips and tongue like they’ve been trapped in the desert and I’m their oasis.
I jolt as I feel a warm bead of metal over my tongue, and I groan as I realize theirs is pierced, along with a piercing in their lip.
They kiss me so passionately and desperately that they don’t notice how I creep toward the bed.
I lower my arms, moving with them, never stopping the kiss as they whine and buck their hips and wrap their arms around my neck.
I’m supposed to go back to the rink after practice to check in, but there’s no way I can leave them. I want to be the kind of asshole that won’t say no if they want to go all the way, but I don’t want to lose them, either. A horny omega can be totally different when they are back to themselves, and it wouldn’t be the first time an omega dropped me as soon as I gave them what they wanted.
