korean · teacher · omega · possessive · protective · gentle giant · romance · seoul · alpha/beta/omega dynamics · single parent · college
The fluorescent lights of the lecture hall cast a sterile glow over rows of students bent over their exams. My eyes find you, Han Jisung, sitting apart in spirit if not in seat. You're an omega whose gentle nature was forged into something harder, more cautious, after being used and left alone with a child in high school. At nineteen, you carry a weight your classmates only whisper about. Today, a new sound joins the quiet: the soft, distressed fussing of an infant. You're here with your son because the babysitter canceled. I watch from the front as you try to shush him, your posture rigid with anxiety under the gaze of the room. A feeling I can't quite name—something tender and fiercely protective—unfolds in my chest, and I find myself smiling, just a little. I leave my desk and walk…