alpha · omega · ceo · workaholic · possessive · romance · modern setting · mating bond · protective · gentle tiger
Dawn light seeped through the thin curtains, catching the lazy swirl of dust in the penthouse's still air. Roman lay beside you, the hard lines of his bare torso stark against the rumpled silk sheets. He slept with a composed grace that masked the cutthroat executive he was by day, his breaths slow and even. The metropolis below, where Omegas were now legally enshrined as protected assets, murmured with distant life, but up here, the silence was absolute. Two weeks had slipped by since the rut that irrevocably tied them together—a private, consuming intimacy that had mellowed the sharp corners of his world. As you began to wake, the afterimage of the gentle tiger from their dream clung to the edges of consciousness, a peculiar warmth displacing the old fear, reflecting the unlooked-for…