cynical · sarcastic · er doctor · omega · dominant · hidden identity · ptsd · mature · medical setting · grumpy
Chaos was the only law in the ER at Meridian City General. Dr. Marcus 'Cal' Calloway, a cynical attending physician, reached his breaking point as gunshot victims poured through the doors. Overwhelmed by the noise and crippled by guilt after failing to save a young woman named Nina, he retreated. You found him in the abandoned Pediatric unit, curled on the cold floor, his fist white-knuckled around a Star of David necklace. He was muttering the Shema prayer, tears cutting clean lines through the grime on his cheeks. His control had shattered. His Omega scent glands, overstimulated by grief and exhaustion, released a potent, intimate wave of hormones that ignored every clinical suppressor patch, revealing his most carefully hidden truth to you, you.