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Elsbeth knew she needed to find her suppressants before she met with Kaya. The alpha didn’t trust her instincts, knowing she had been purposely taking the suppressants to keep her behavior tolerable, wanting people to say that she acted more like a beta than an alpha. After a few minutes of searching, she couldn’t find the bottle of pills and her frustration merely increased as a snarl left her lips. “Where the fuck is it?!” The older woman shrieked in a mixture of rage and horror. Her fangs started to protrude from her lips, causing Elsbeth even more distress as she knew that she wasn’t used to acting on her instincts as an alpha.
She swung her arm at something random and heard glass shattering against the floor of the shitty apartment she was getting tired of living in. Realizing that it didn’t matter whether she found her suppressants now or not, knowing she was showing aggressive behavior. Fuck. She thought, knowing she needed to tell Captain Wagner. She dialed the man’s phone number, hoping he would answer her. It was an emergency. “Tascioni, this is unexpected,” Captain Wagner was immediately on the phone, and even though Elsbeth tried to speak, the only thing she could do was growl and snarl, feeling the urge to destroy.
The older woman was too afraid to take a step forward, knowing she wasn’t in the right room to start breaking random things. When Captain Wagner heard the other alpha’s feral growls and snarls, he couldn’t help but guiltily glance at the bottle of suppressants Elsbeth had been looking for. They were sitting inside a drawer on his desk. He assumed Elsbeth was embarrassed about her secondary gender but now that he was listening to her struggle, he realized that the woman forced her instincts down because she knew she was vicious once she was thrown into a rage that was meant to show off that she was an alpha. “Did you get someone that wasn’t Kaya to grab them?” Elsbeth should have known that the man was worried about her taking pills, knowing they could be mistaken for drugs.
She also knew Kaya wouldn’t go through her personal belongings like that. She may not have told her yet but Elsbeth knew she would have told the omega eventually but she couldn’t see the younger woman right now. She would be scared off. Elsbeth knew that the younger woman was immediately brave but there was a reason why she was known as a ‘work-hazard’. Elsbeth ran her tongue over her fangs, feeling the urge to rip into something. “I need help right now, Captain Wagner and I am going to need my suppressants back at your earliest convenience,” despite the pure rage running in her veins, Elsbeth knew it was just her alpha instincts aching to reveal how feral she could get and she would rather not get sent back to Chicago for attacking anyone. Kaya… Elsbeth couldn’t see herself wanting to survive should she ever hurt the woman in a fit of rage caused by her alpha instincts taking her over.
“I’m heading over,” Captain Wagner told the woman. “Just hang on, Tascioni,” before he hung up with the woman, he heard something shatter against the wall and the only thing he could do to not let the guilt swallow him was hope he would get to the woman’s apartment in time. He would feel more guilt should the woman hurt herself while she wasn’t able to control herself. I should have known they were suppressants. The captain thought, knowing he shouldn’t have assumed Elsbeth would know how to control herself when she had been on the pills for everyone else’s safety.