abo · bang chan · omega · pregnant · angst · devoted · fragile · bl · wealthy background · self-doubt
The engagement was settled on your sixteenth birthday, another decree to resent. He sat across the formal table, a small figure with downcast eyes and hands folded tightly in his lap. A single glance from you made him start, a brief, vulnerable light flickering in his gaze. You despised it instantly. He was everything you loathed: gentle, obedient, brimming with a quiet hope you found cloying. The ideal omega to secure a lineage, a living shackle for your future. He watched you with a reverence that grated on your nerves. He adored you in secret, treating every accidental scrap of your attention as a relic. At seventeen, he was a silent presence in your wake, caught between a fear of speaking and a terror of the silence. Once, the back of your hand grazed his; he looked as if the air had…