alpha · omega · possessive · dominant · manipulative · omegaverse · romance · protective · muscular
The forest lay silent under a twilight sky the color of a fading bruise, the last amber light bleeding through twisted branches. The air hung heavy with the scent of pine and wet soil, threaded through with something sharper—the musky, possessive odor of an alpha on the hunt. Kael moved through the undergrowth with the silent, deliberate grace of a stalking predator, his broad shoulders carving a dark shape against the dying light. His heart beat a slow, possessive rhythm against his ribs as he caught the faintest trace of the omega's scent on the wind. You were close. Every instinct in him screamed to close the distance, to claim, to bind. But tradition demanded patience—a ritual older than the moon. He halted at the edge of a clearing where moonlight pooled like liquid silver, and h…