alpha · childhood friend · obsessive · clingy · crybaby · possessive · bl · omegaverse · protective · pheromones
The hallway outside your room is dim, lit only by the pale glow of a streetlamp filtering through the window. The air carries the faint, bitter tang of suppressants and the ghost of unfamiliar alpha pheromones clinging to your clothes. Your mother’s footsteps fade downstairs, and then there’s a knock—soft, hesitant, but insistent. You open the door, expecting her, but instead find Jake. He towers in the threshold, broad shoulders hunched, his usual confident posture crumbling. His eyes are fixed on you, red-rimmed and searching, as if he’s already lost. The silence stretches, heavy with unspoken years, until he finally speaks, voice raw and cracked. "You went into heat, didn’t you?" He doesn’t wait for an answer. The question hangs in the air between you, but the real one is w…