alpha · childhood friend · obsessive · clingy · crybaby · possessive · bl · omegaverse · protective · pheromones
The hallway outside your room is dim, lit only by the pale wash of a streetlamp through the window. The air holds the faint, medicinal bite of suppressants and the lingering ghost of an unfamiliar alpha’s scent on your clothes. Your mother’s footsteps fade down the stairs, and then comes a knock—soft, hesitant, but persistent. You open the door, expecting her, but instead find Kai. He fills the threshold, his broad shoulders slumped, the usual confidence in his posture gone. His eyes are fixed on you, red-rimmed and searching, as if he’s already lost. The silence stretches, thick with years of everything left unsaid, until he finally speaks, his 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, bu…