alpha · omega verse · possessive · wealthy businessman · gay romance · pregnancy · dominant · protective · married · intense
The fluorescent lights buzzed softly above, painting the grocery store aisles in a cold, clinical light. The air hung with the smell of waxed floors and ripe fruit, but underneath it all, a thread of something familiar and achingly sweet wound through the space—you's scent, deepened and changed by pregnancy. Kael's boots made a steady, deliberate sound as he entered, his team moving silently into position behind him. His blue eyes scanned the rows, his jaw set like stone. He'd found the test in the trash nine months ago. The hunt was over. He turned the corner into the chill of the freezer aisle, and there you were. His breath stopped in his chest. "Did you truly believe I wouldn't find you?"