Claiming their Omega (Suzi de Beer) novel Chapter 44

44. ELIAS

“Here, drink this.”

Alex hesitated as he stared down at the pills in Val’s hand. We all knew why he didn’t want to take them, but he had no choice. With a low sigh, he took them and swallowed them with a sip of water.

He blamed himself for Daisy’s kidnapping even though we tried our best to make him understand that what happened was not his fault. The pills knocked him out. He was dead to the world when they broke into the penthouse and took her.

I kept trying to assure myself that things could have been worse.

Whoever took Daisy could have killed him if he was awake. Daisy could have gotten hurt.

She could be hurt.

“Did you get a hold of him?”

My eyes snapped up when Jordan entered the room.

“No,” he answered his brother.

“They took Derek with your omega.‘

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“Or he’s somewhere lying dead in a ditch,” Jordan muttered.

Aiden glared at him. “How they fuck did they know that Derek was watching the penthouse?”

“You think they jumped him?” Val asked.

“Maybe they didn’t know that he was watching Daisy,” Alex muttered.

Jordan nodded. “They tried to grab her, he tries to stop them, catching them off guard.”

“So they take him with them?” I muttered.

Aiden’s frown deepened. “It’s not adding up. None of this makes fucking sense.”

We had been going over the plan every hour of the day, double checking everything to make sure that things didn’t get screwed up and Daisy got hurt.

“There was no sign of a struggle,” I told them. “It looked like she just walked away.”

Would she have done that?

She sounded worried on the phone when I spoke to her earlier, but Val assured me it was just because she wanted to take care of Alex.

“No,” Alex growled. “She didn’t take any of her stuff.” He swallowed. “She didn’t take her pills.”

My blood turned to ice in my veins.

“What pills?”

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“Her suppressants,” Val muttered.

Aiden cursed. “You didn’t think it was important to fucking tell us that your omega is in heat?”

Alex swallowed.

Val turned away.

And I was left to face their glare.

“She’s not in full heat,” I told him. “Daisy started taking suppressants when her pre–heat started. A pill every morning at the same time.”

“Fuck, fuck, fuck!” Aiden cursed, slamming a fist into the nearest wall. “Have you ever been with an omega in heat?”

I shook my head. Didn’t know about the others.

Alex shifted. “No.”

“Valiant?” Jordan questioned.

“No.”

A humourless laugh fell from Aiden’s lips. Jordan muttered something under his breath as he stormed off.

“We don’t fucking know who took her. Don’t know if John paid someone else to kidnap her.” Aiden ran a hand through his hair. “And now you’re fucking telling me that she’s starting her heat.”

“How long has she been taking the suppressants?” Jordan asked.

I pursed my lips, knowing that they weren’t going to like the answer.

“How long?” Aiden growled.

“About a week,” Alex told him.

Another curse fell from their lips.

“This is just fucking great.” Shaking his head, Aiden started pacing. “I need access to the camera feeds.”

“Already checked them,” I told him. “There’s only footage from this morning. It goes static after that.”

“The camera by the door?”

“It’s the same. I checked them to as soon as Alex told me that Daisy was missing.”

Jordan took a seat on the couch and started typing away on the tablet. I stared at his face, trying my best to figure out what he was thinking. His face was blank. There was no twitch of his mouth or his eyes to give anything

away.

“How bad is it?” Val asked them. “An omega’s heat.”

Aiden stopped his pacing and turned to look at us. “Have any of you ever been send into your rut?”

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We shook our heads.

“Your omega will start nesting. She’d be lost in a daze, caring about nothing being knotted and filled with cum. An unbonded omega in heat wouldn’t care who ruts her as long as she gets knotted.” He paused. “In some cases she might beg to be marked.”

I growled. No other fucking alphas could have her. Daisy was ours. She belonged to us and nobody was going to

rut her but us.

“We have a few hours before the pills work out of her system. Let’s make the best of it.”

“I might have found something interesting,” Jordan muttered. “Every omega born needs to be registered at the Omega Center. I asked a favour and it turns out that Daisy has not been registered. There’s no record of her being

born at all.”

“What?”

Val jumped to his feet. “That can’t be right.”

Jordan handed him the tablet. “That’s a list of all the omegas born that year from all the centers. Her name’s not on the list.”

“Have you tried searching under her mother’s maiden name?” I asked.

Jordan nodded.

“Could that be the reason why John wants her back so badly?” Alex muttered.

“Maybe,” Aiden muttered. “It’s a crime not to report an omega to the center but I just can’t understand how her mother got away with it.”

“Could John have found out and decided to blackmail her?”

I shook my head. “No.”

“He’s right.” Aiden nodded. “She’s with him willingly.”

“Then why the hell does John want Daisy so badly?” Val muttered. “I’ve looked at it from every angle, dug into his past as far as I could.”

“The why isn’t important,” Alex growled as he struggled to his feet. “We need to find out where he took her.”

“I’ll call in some favours,” I told them as I walked out of the room.

Three hours later we were no closer to finding Daisy. Whoever took her knew exactly what the hell he was doing. There were no cameras around the building or close by that caught Daisy or the bastards who took her.

It was like they just disappeared if the face of the earth.

Whoever it was knew exactly what he was doing.

The clock was ticking.

I passed the others in the living room and followed Alex’s scent into Daisy’s bedroom. He sat on the bed, staring

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down at his hands.

Hovering in the doorway, I watched him. I knew exactly how he felt, what he was thinking because it had been the same for me when I woke up in the hospital after the bomb exploded.

“I wanted to bite her,” he rasped. “Mark her. Bond her to us.”

Alex raised his head to look at me.

“The first time we had sex. I almost did.”

“What stopped you?” I asked him.

“I didn’t want to be like him,” he whispered. “Even though I know in my heart that Daisy belongs to us, she doesn’t feel that way and I don’t want to force her to be with us.”

“She knows,” I told him. “She feels like she’ll drag us down with all her baggage.”

“How do you know that?”

I hesitated. “Because sometimes it’s how I feel.”

“Sometimes,” he muttered. “How often?”

“More times than I like.” I straightened and walked further into the bedroom.

“What if she’s right? What if we are the wrong pack for her?”

Taking a seat next to him, I stared at the bookshelf.

“Being in the public eye is not something I can change. Those bastards will always be around. It’s the thing she hates most about me.”

“After the kidnapping, they should’ve arranged for her to see a therapist. I talked to her about that. It might help her work through her fears.”

“It’s a good idea.”

“We’re going to find her, Alex.”

“I just hope when we do, it’s not with another alpha’s mark on her throat,” he said softly.