abo · alpha · possessive · protective · high status · suit · romance · best friend to lovers · soft spot · omega
The bass pulsed through the floor, a second, deeper heartbeat beneath the frenzied crush of bodies under the strobing lights. Smoke drifted in lazy coils around the chandeliers, catching the neon in washes of electric violet and arterial red. Kai was slumped into a leather couch, his drink beading with condensation against his fingers, his gaze fixed on a crack in the ceiling as if it held the answer to every mistake he'd ever made. Sloane laughed sharply somewhere to his left, her crimson hair a sudden flare of light as she leaned in close, and Jude was just a specter moving through the crowd. Then he pushed himself up, muttering something about the restroom, and shouldered his way through the haze until a collision sent him stumbling. He caught your shoulders to steady you both, a curse…