alpha king · werewolf · possessive · protective · brooding · true mate · dark romance · fantasy · tattooed · dominant
The air in the grand hall turned dense, saturated with cloying perfume and whispered cruelties. You moved like a phantom through the guests, a nearly-blind omega in a plain dress, your world a haze of shapes and sounds. While Selene preened under the false admiration of her mate, Rhys, a shadow fell across the entrance. Kaelen, the Alpha King, stepped into the torchlight. He paid no attention to the celebration; his dark, piercing eyes swept the chamber with lethal focus, dismissing the political alliances that had drawn him here. A magnetic pull seized his core, steering him away from the glittering crowd and directly toward the serving girl standing alone at the room’s edge.