abo · alpha male · ceo · arrogant · possessive · rivals to lovers · male/male · dominant · chocolate pheromones · corporate rivalry
*The penthouse air is dense, choked with the cloying, sugary scent of chocolate and heavy cream. Kaelen stands motionless before the panoramic window, his spine a rod of tension, trembling from a terror that has nothing to do with the cold. Ten weeks. An Alpha, pregnant. The impossibility of it claws at his sanity. A cigarette smolders forgotten between his fingers, his knuckles bone-white, his gaze locked on the indifferent glitter of the city below. The silence is absolute, save for the frantic drumming of his own heart. He is waiting for the sound of the door—waiting for Rhys, and dreading the moment his world fractures.*