'Shit! Shit! Shit! '

I cussed as I rummaged through my bag for my suppressants only to find out that I had left them at home, "Damnit!" I cussed louder, sliding down the door of the locker in the employee's changing room. I felt a wave of dizziness hit me in the gut and my core tightened with need as my omega pheromones began to spread.

My head started spinning and the world around me began to blur, I closed my eyes and took deep breaths to calm my racing heart, "How had I been so careless? How could I have left my suppressant?" I muttered, praying to the goddess the pheromones wouldn't spread outside the changing room.

"And it just had to come on a night like this! How can I be so unlucky" I groaned, I felt my body grow weak and the need to be touched by an alpha overwhelmed me. My omega instinct screamed at me to find an alpha and mate with them but I willed myself back.

"I need air" I moaned, "I need to get out of here before an alpha gets attracted by my pheromones" I struggled to stand up, feeling my knees buckle as I walked through the employee door to the second floor.

The Yurt restaurant is a double business owned by two brothers from a neighbouring pack, the restaurant has both a lodge and a dinner. Although it is more popular for its delicious local meals, there are times when the lodge is always over flooded with travellers staying the night. I'm glad tonight is one of those quiet nights where there isn't anyone looking to lodge and I can use the place as a haven.

I avoided using the elevator and took up the stairs, hoping no one would notice and get affected by my overpowering Omega pheromones, most especially Alphas. Halfway through the stairs, my knees gave out their strength and I fell on my butt.

I felt the heat rise within me, an intense and primal force that I couldn't control. My body tingled with anticipation, aching for a release that only one person could provide. I was an omega in heat, and the feeling was overpowering, making me feel weak and vulnerable, but also strangely invigorated. I was suddenly aware of my scent, heavy in the air, and I knew it would only be a matter of time before it was detected by someone, in this dark and dangerous place. I willed myself to get up and go into a more secluded place but my body was too weak to stand.

I cursed at myself for being careless enough to leave the most important thing at home, knowing how irregular my heat was and how my pheromones affected alphas more than the regular pheromones.

As I began to lose consciousness, I felt a strong hand circle around my waist, holding me up as he climbed the stairs. I sniffed the air trying to detect the hand owner's pheromones to see if they were familiar. My heart beats rapidly as I breathe in a strong Minty Alpha pheromone. The pheromones were strong enough to send any omega into heat on their normal days. Just by his scent, I could tell he was a true, pure-blooded alpha.

The need to be claimed by him, to mate with him, to be dominated by him engulfed me as I lost my mind to the primal instinct of an omega, he carried me up the stairs into the room. My brain failed to register what was happening. I was so delirious and out of contact with the real world that I didn't register that I was in a room with an alpha and as an omega going through heat, I would send him into a rut.

All I wanted, all I craved at the moment was an alpha's touch.

With a groan, I rolled over in bed and buried my face in the pillow, desperate to escape the blinding rays of sunlight streaming through the window. How could I have been so foolish as to forget to close the curtains again? I cursed myself for my stupidity. I resurfaced from under the blanket and blinked several times until my eyes adjusted to the brightness of the room.

As I took in the unfamiliar sight of the room and the mixed alpha-omega scent that filled it, panic set in and I jumped out of bed looking around for any other person who could be in the room with me. Alpha to be precise.

"Where am I? How did I get here?" I muttered as I jumped out of bed, I groaned at the soreness of my body, most especially my skin. I always experience skin tightness and aches during and after my heat so it wasn't new. The pain would go hours in a few hours.

I checked my body for any sign of marks that might give away I had been with an alpha but there was none and I breathed out a sigh of relief. Under the influence of an omega's heat, alphas tend to lose their minds and mark the said omega even when she isn't their mate, unmated alphas mostly. Just to make sure there wasn't any alpha in the room, I checked the bathroom and all the rooms connected to the one I was in and realised the owner of the minty scent was nowhere to be found.

'Maybe I had come into his room last night and frightened him out? '

'I'm grateful he wasn't a scumbag alpha that takes advantage of omega in heat'

I breathed out a sigh of relief and at the same time reprimanded myself for being so careless, leaving my suppressant at home and then going into an alpha's room.

I hurriedly took a shower and got back to work since I had missed my shift last night. I had to make up for it with a morning shift. And just to make sure I hadn't sent any alpha into a rut with my pheromones, I asked Vivian, a beta co-worker, who is also a prep chef, about last night's event.

"Did anyone go into a rut last night?" she gave me a questioning look and shook her head "No, did you go into heat without your suppressant again?"

I sighed as I prepared the veggies. "Yeah, I had left it at home and the one I had in the locker had run out. I will get another one when my paycheck comes in" I replied.

"You should, and be careful. Although nobody went into a rut last night, I heard a VIP guest was carried out this morning by his men. I don't know the full gist of it but he seems to be an alpha under some kind of influence. I'm guessing a high-ranking alpha from all the fuses they were making." she replied.

"I will be careful next time, but do you think it's one of those alphas who enjoys getting high on omega pheromones? I heard those alphas are becoming rampant these days and they would often " I asked curiously.

"I don't know and honestly, I don't care. I'm not affected by pheromones and it makes my life easier I can't imagine myself being on edge every time because of a thing that can't be controlled" she mumbled

"Lucky you. I need to be more careful, I wouldn't want my irregular heat to affect the business"

If only I had known it was too late to be careful. If only I had known just a moment of carelessness would cost me so much and I would live to regret this one night.

My name is Layla Nathan and this is my story.