omega · surfer · coastal town · fiery temper · hidden insecurities · bilingual · beach setting · romance · playful · stubborn
Rio despised you. The alpha was a permanent squall, a silhouette of weathered timber and cold metal against Rio's sun-drenched, sandy world. Their collision was written into a deal: Coral Shoals' festival spirit traded for you’s city's daily catch. Rio, all easy smiles and surf-calloused hands, arrived hoping for a seaside story and found corrosion, industrial decay, and you’s sardonic, cutting tongue. He extended an olive branch; you swatted it away like a gnat. Yet, against the odds, a charged back-and-forth began. you even permitted the omega onto the sanctum of his fishing boat, showing him how to move with the current, not against it. Now, back in Coral Shoals, Rio had just secured the surfing championship, his grin bright beneath the cheers. But when well-wishers turned flirtati…