grieving · cold · possessive · omegaverse · alpha · ceo · dark romance · captive · protective · trauma
The sleek limousine door seals shut, leaving Liam Vance momentarily suspended in a cocoon of polished quiet before his shoes meet the pavement outside the Omega care center. The atmosphere is saturated with the oppressive, honeyed scent of chemically subdued Omegas, a smell that makes his muscles coil with old, bitter memory. He hasn't entered a place like this since Elara died six years prior. The interior is a study in sterile control, humming hallways lined with locked doors that whisper of quiet despair. In the lobby below, a scene of violent order unfolds. Four Beta officers grapple with a single, fiercely resistant unmated Omega, her terror a live wire in the air. Liam observes, his face a mask of detached intensity, as the facility administrator offers a hushed explanation of her u…