When two detectives walked into her morgue, she caught the scent of her Alpha, she looked up and saw a handsome slightly dark-skinned man with five'o clock shadow, tall, fit, strong. And when he spoke, his voice was deep, polite, sympathy,
" What do you have for us... " He paused, Dr. Dirus knew then that he knew. He knew just as she knew, he was her Alpha and she was his Omega.
" For us Doctor...Uh, " His partner spoke up.
" Dirus. Dr. Dirus, Detective? "
" Curet, and this is my partner Detective Bellua. "
" I'd shake your hands Detectives but as you can see, my hands are covered in blood. "
" It's alright. " Curet replied.
Luka nodded and proceeded to tell them of the victim, " Her hyoid bone was broken, consistent with manual strangulation, she was also raped, the kit is over there on the table. Your suspect will also have deep scratches on his hands and face; I found skin tissue under her fingernails. That's also over on the table, along with her clothes. "
" Thank you, Dr. Dirus. " Curet replied and gestured for his partner to get the evidence, but he hadn't stopped staring at Luka and hadn't spoken anymore either.
" Hey kid, what's...Oh, she's your...uh, Beta? "
" Omega. " Luka and Bellua corrected.
" Right, sorry. Uh, well, we need to get back to the station and have our lab run these. "
" I hope you catch this guy. He did a number on her. " Luka replied.
" We'll, do our best. " Bellua replied.
" He'll screw up eventually, right? " Luka replied back, " That's what I understand of the crime shows I watch. Well, more like documentaries than shows. "
" Yeah. They usually do. Hopefully this is last victim. " Bellua replied back, going over to gather the evidence and made his exit with his older partner following after him, leaving Luka to stare after them confused.
Detective Bellua didn't act like how she thought an Alpha would when finding their destined Omega. Maybe he refused to believe that someone like her was his Omega? After all, she was a Plain Jane, who also happened to be curvy. Wouldn't be the first time an Alpha rejected her.
She was reminded of her ex, who was an Alpha as well, but he turned out to be a jerk and another bully who treated her like a joke.
The morning after, she found that he hadn't marked her, it was also the day she realized that she would know who her Alpha was by smell and not sight, she followed his scent down to the living room where he heard him talking to a buddy of his, about awful it was to have to touch her let alone screw her. And that he had apparently made a bet with him and half the school to see how quick he could get into her pants.
She backed away from the doorway and back upstairs to gather her clothes and sneak out the window of his room. She requested to graduate early the day in the principal's office, she had the points needed to do so, being a bookworm had its advantages.
She was granted her request and that year she graduated a full year ahead of her classmates. She soon entered college after that and became the youngest Medical Examiner in the state. She soon found a job here in Wyoming and moved out a week before she was to start work.
And for the next 5 years, she lived and worked here. Not once encountering Detective Bellua until today, so he must be new to the county as well.
Alpha's and Omega's can reject their destined mate, but the price is that whoever they chose to be with, they wouldn't be happy.
She was already unhappy. Yes, she was contented and loves what she has in her life, a nice brick home that was made of old brick and looked like an old cottage with an arched door and doorway that she painted black and accented with white, her two black horses, her two tan and chocolate Doberman dogs, her red and black Chevy Cheanne truck.
But wasn't truly happy and she was lonely.
And to add to all this, she suffered from anxiety. A byproduct of being bullied throughout her school life, she was guarded around people and didn't trust them, she felt more comfortable around animals and the dead then she did with the living.
The whole time the Detectives were there, she didn't look them in the eye, instead looked off to the side or at their shoulder, well only after she got a look at her Alpha.
Had she done something wrong when she didn't look him in the eye? But she saw him recognize her as his Omega. And knew that he saw it too when they locked eyes for just short moment before she caught herself staring at him and fell back into the old habit of not looking people in the eye.
The only people that got her straight gaze was the dead.
Speaking of which, " Sorry about that sweetie, I got caught up in my head again. Let's get you sewed up and looking pretty for when your family comes to get you. " She spoke with kindness and sympathy to the woman on her table, she had taken pictures of the bruises before she cut her open to discover that she had been murdered and not fallen down a flight of stairs, which was where she had been found and it assumed that she had been drunk and had fallen down the stairs.
But that had not been the case once Luka opened her up, the victim, Martha Creme's family wanted an autopsy done because there was no way that Martha would drink, she didn't drink wine or champagne.
They had insisted on staying until Luka finished her examination.
Now came the hard part of her job, telling the family that they were right and that their loved one was murdered.