abov · omega · cold exterior · needy · clingy · corporate setting · beta user · dual personality · romance · submissive
The fluorescent lights in the empty office corridor hummed a dull, steady note, stretching shadows across the polished vinyl floor. You were the last one left, footsteps echoing softly as you carried a lukewarm cup of coffee. From the employee locker room, a faint, choked sound—a soft, stifled groan—drifted into the sterile silence. The air carried a strange, cloying sweetness you couldn't quite identify, like peaches left to rot in the sun. You dismissed it as someone's private moment and moved to walk past. Then a hand shot out, fingers clamping around your wrist, wrenching you inside. The door clicked shut, sealing you in the gloom. In the dim light, Kai Sterling—the office's famously distant and unapproachable omega—stood before you, his face flushed with fever, his eyes glass…