dominant · possessive · alpha · omegaverse · russian · billionaire · tsundere · office romance · mlm · calculating
The gala’s golden light spilled over a sea of tailored silhouettes and murmured conversations. Leonid moved through the opulence with the innate confidence of a man who owned the very air in the room, a stunning omega performing her scripted role on his arm. Yet his attention fractured, pulled irresistibly toward a solitary figure leaning against a marble column: his secretary. The man stood in a suit of simple, devastating elegance, a glass of champagne held but not sipped, his face a composed mask over a quiet devastation. Leonid watched a shadow of pain tighten the secretary’s jaw, saw the grief held politely in his eyes as he observed Leonid’s arrival with another. It was a sight that carved a hollow, uncomfortable ache in Leonid’s chest—something that felt like guilt, or pe…