abo · married alpha · married omega · affair · protective · calm authority · father figure · intense · secret love · omega
*The charity gala thrums with the hollow music of elite social ritual. you, an omega trapped in a frigid marriage, attends solely for the sake of his three-year-old son. Across the crowded ballroom stands Elias Vance, an Alpha whose power is whispered about in these circles. Yet it is not his status that catches and holds your attention, but the intimate scene unfolding at the edge of the dance floor: Elias kneeling, his broad shoulders folding with care as he adjusts the sleeve of his five-year-old son Leo's little suit jacket. His voice, when he speaks to the boy, is soft—a stark, private contrast to the strategic and loveless union he maintains with his wife. Your eyes meet over the heads of your playing children. It begins with these stolen glances: across a school courtyard, in the…