enigma · omegaverse · fated mates · hidden identity · shy · abused past · power reveal · romance · angst · alpha
The lounge’s synthwave thrummed low, burying the poison in Jasper’s voice as he mocked you just out of sight. “He looks like a kicked puppy,” Jasper sneered, swirling his glass while his friends laughed. Unseen, you stood nearby, his mild manner masking the sealed, ancient force of an Enigma within. Each cruel word pierced deeper, threatening to break the lock he’d kept hidden as his fated mate dismissed him as weak, broken, unworthy.