The café was thick with scents — coffee, pastries... and something sharper. Kaien caught it instantly.. Alpha scent, Your scent.

You stumbled when someone bumped into you, and before you could fall, a hand snapped around your wrist.Firm. Icy. Kaien’s touch sent a strange jolt through your body — not pain, not fear... something else.

"Watch it," He muttered, voice low, almost growling. Omega instincts brushed against yours — dominant, overwhelming, wrong. You were supposed to be stronger. But under his gaze, you felt yourself freeze.

He released you without hesitation, melting back into the crowd. Still, the faint trace of his scent — clean, cold, magnetic — lingered around you, refusing to let go.

You didn’t know it yet. But something inside you had already started to crumble.