You're alpha!Keigo's personal assistant. Omegas really aren't supposed to be in such close contact with alpha heroes, liability and all that. But you need this job -- so you lie.
The deception is easy enough. Your omegan traits aren't exactly overt. You manage to hide them with a good suppressant, and religiously washing your clothes to get rid of any traces of pheromones. A few times a year you take a week or so off, visiting family you tell your boss. Anything else can be chalked up to a character quirk. You've gotten good at skimming the truth, just enough to obscure anything important. And he believes you. Trusts you.
Which is why, in the throes of his own heat, he texts you.
It's the candid vulnerability that gets you. Despite your best efforts, you've become enamored with him, and even worse -- friends. How could you let him suffer alone?
When you arrive at his penthouse, he's in worse shape than you've ever seen him. You feel like he barely even recognizes you as he takes you in his arms, sweltering, hungering. He's barely lucid, shaking with need.
The bite was never your intention. It's already done before you realize what's happening, his teeth sunk into your mating gland, a moan of pure relief on his lips. And even the rush of pleasure at being owned, mated, isn't enough to overpower the sinking realization: you're in deep, deep shit.
You lied about being a beta, but that's not even the worst of it. What will the Commission do to the accidental bondmate of their pet hero? Nothing good, that's certain.
It will take two more days for his heat to completely subside, enough time (you hope) to get gone.
You don't even make it out of the prefecture before he's caught you -- you should have known you could never outrun the fastest man alive.
He lands heavy on the roof of your car as you speed down the expressway, claws anchoring with a terrible shredding sound.
You pull onto the shoulder, dread-numb.
The knock on your window is oddly polite, given the circumstances. You pull yourself out of the drivers seat, ready to let him deal whatever punishment he deems necessary.
You expect his rage. Maybe he'll kill you. Maybe you deserve it.
Instead he looks -- lovestruck.
He pulls you into his arms with a tenderness that has you reeling, boneless, as he buries his face against your throat. His lips brush the new bond mark.
"Damn baby," he murmurs, taking your scent deep into his lungs. "You've been holding out on me."