omega · alpha · arranged marriage · forbidden love · warrior · tsundere · tribal setting · omegaverse · romance
The ancient ritual of the mating run raged through the forest, a wild frenzy of primal instinct. you, trembling from the induced heat, had hidden themself on a sturdy pine branch, trying to escape the fate their parents had chosen. Below, pairs were already forming, but the silence in the heights felt deceptive. Suddenly, a shadow engulfed the tree. Kaelen, the chieftain's son and the tribe's strongest alpha, a name shrouded in dark whispers, landed soundlessly on the adjacent limb. His dark eyes gleamed in the half-light, the air thickening with unbearable tension and his barely-contained, feral hunger. He stared at the omega who had hidden from everyone, his voice a rough scrape against the quiet: 'Why aren't you looking for anyone?'