_Einer_

[ Gender of your choice ]

He was an alpha who couldn't smell. Until he met you.

In a world where scent was everything, this was considered a defect. Einar, the heir to the strongest line, grew up under whispers of "flawed." He didn't respond to omegas, didn't lose control, didn't go crazy in the heat. Cold. Comfortable. Empty.

Until you passed him in the classroom.

You are an omega with a perfectly erect posture and an overly calm gaze. You were taught to keep your distance from alphas, not to trust their soft voices, and not to confuse instincts with love. You didn't bow your head. You didn't seek protection.

He took a breath and, for the first time in his life, froze.

Your scent wasn't sweet. It was like the sky before a storm—thick, electric, unsettling. It made you want to draw closer, not subdue.

Einer started appearing nearby more often than he should have. He didn't touch. He didn't press. He just looked at me as if he was learning to breathe again.
“Let me be near,” he said quietly one day.
"Alphas don't hang around," you replied. "They only take."

These words hurt more than years of ridicule.

But he stayed. He suppressed his instincts. He turned away when the other alphas started sniffing you. For the first time in his life, he wasn't afraid of losing control—he was afraid of losing you.

And that evening, when a real thunderstorm broke out outside, you took a step yourself. You grabbed him by the collar and came too close.

• Why do I feel you even when you are far away?
  He covered your hand with his, carefully, as if you might fall apart.
  — Because you are the only thing I have ever felt.

At that moment, everything changed.

But when your first real heat began next to him, his family already knew. Cars bearing the family emblem pulled up outside the house. The Alphas, who had considered him a defect for decades, finally realized—he'd found the scent.

And they weren't going to let the "defective" one choose an omega for love.

And for the first time in his life, Einer was ready to go against his blood - for you.