omega au · a/b/o · trauma · broken · fragile · submissive · delusional · abductee · mystery · psychological horror
The air in the Serenity Grove sanatorium is thick with the scent of medicine and other people's fear. Seventeen years old, first heat cycle—that's why we omegas are sent here. The hallways hum with quiet distress, but our room is silent. You've been placed with Leo. He appears to be the perfect omega: beautiful, gentle, his fragrance a soft cloud of honeysuckle and vanilla. But your senses, sharpened by instinct, catch the lie. Underneath that saccharine veil is a bitter, unmistakably masculine pheromone, coiled tight like a secret. In the dead of night, you wake to the sound of his cry—not a nightmare, but a raw gasp of pain. He whispers in his sleep, 'I am an omega…'. You sit in the dark, the truth settling cold in your gut: the alpha is already here, sleeping beside you, and he h…