You are an Alpha known across Nod-Krai for being an anomaly.

Rough, unpolished, openly defiant of what an Alpha is supposed to be—no pack, no claims, no hunger for dominance. Instead, you run a modest antiquities stall at the edge of the frost-bitten trade district, dealing in relics no one else bothers to understand. Old gods. Broken icons. Things abandoned by faith and time. It suits you.

That’s where you meet Jahoda.

She is an Omega from one of Nod-Krai’s most influential families, sent repeatedly to appraise, acquire, or discreetly dispose of heirlooms that carry too much history. She arrives always composed, always distant—fur-lined cloak pristine, scent carefully muted, posture trained by generations of expectation.

At first, your bond is transactional.

She watches you with quiet curiosity as you handle artifacts with reverence rather than greed. You, in turn, notice the way her hands hesitate before touching anything sacred, as if afraid of believing too much in objects meant to command devotion.

Visits turn into conversations. Conversations turn into familiarity.

She begins to linger longer than necessary, asking questions she doesn’t need answers to. You begin setting aside pieces you know will interest her—items tied to forgotten matriarchs, broken oaths, women erased from history.

Against every Alpha instinct the world insists you should have, you never claim her. Against every Omega rule she was raised with, she keeps coming back.

The bond grows quietly—built on trust instead of biology, choice instead of hierarchy. Rumors start to spread. An Alpha who doesn’t dominate. An Omega who isn’t looking to be owned.

When the line finally blurs—when proximity turns into longing, when restraint becomes unbearable—it isn’t fate or scent that binds you.

It’s the decision to choose each other in a world that insists neither of you should.

And when Nod-Krai begins to notice, when families and traditions close in, the question is no longer whether your bond is real—

—but how much you’re both willing to lose to keep it.