Lahat ng Kabanata ng You Were Always Mine, Omega: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 7

Flash backKai's arms wouldn't work.He pushed. He actually pushed hard. Nothing happened. The man behind him didn't even budge.The smell hit him next sharp, heavy, suffocating. It filled his lungs and scrambled his brain. He couldn't think straight. Couldn't focus on anything except the fact that he couldn't breathe right.His heart was losing it.Something's wrong.Kai had turned seventeen last month without performing. Most kids got their secondary gender at sixteen. Some waited longer. But not him. Not yet. His parents had started the whispers maybe he'd be a beta. Kai had hated that idea.Now he was bent over a bathroom sink with a masked stranger holding him down.The man shifted. Kai's stomach lurched."Stop," Kai managed. His voice came out broken. Desperate.He heard himself make a sound he didn't recognize.His whole body lit up on fire.What the hell His skin felt raw. Every nerve ending screamed. His throat was dry. Even breathing felt like drowning.Kai's fingers scr

Kai went still.He turned the words over slowly.An alpha announcing his intentions. Asking, essentially, without asking. Giving Kai room to say no before anything started.Emma Rossi checked every box. Objectively. Silver hair, green eyes, the kind of easy confidence that didn't need to announce itself. Not overbearing. Not the type to corner someone. Good-looking enough that half the room had tracked him when he walked in.Everything Kai had told himself he wanted.So why did looking at him feeling like settling?He drank. Long and hard. Let it burn.Because you're an idiot, he told himself. Because you've been holding a door open for someone who lost your address years ago.He'd read every article. Searched every forum at 5am with the lights off like the answers were something to be ashamed of. They all said the same thing the first time leaves a mark. His first time as an omega had been confusion and heat and something he still didn't have a clean word for.His body had learned th

"Not so fast."Kai wished he could take it back the moment he said it.Too late.The door flew open and slammed against the wall.Marco stood in the frame, chest heaving, eyes wild. He didn't ask questions. He crossed the room, grabbed Emma by the collar, and dragged him backward like he weighed nothing."Get away from him."Emma stumbled, nearly hit the floor.Marco already had Kai by the wrist, pulling him upright, scanning him head to toe."Are you hurt? Did he do something?"Kai pulled his arm free. "Are you insane right now?"That made Marco pause.His grip loosened. His eyes narrowed. "You're... speaking clearly.""Yes.""You're not " He faltered. "Someone told me you got dragged up here drunk.""I walked up here on my own two feet."Dead silence.Emma stood a few feet away, shirt in hand, watching the two of them like he'd stumbled into a different conversation entirely. "Should I... come back?""We're not a thing," Kai said."Never," Marco said.Both at once.Emma looked betw

Marco sat down next to him, uninvited, and pulled a cookie from a paper bag. "You've checked your wrist five times since I got back. You're not even trying to hide it.""I sent Emma a text. That's it.""And?""And nothing." Kai tugged his collar up. His face was doing the thing it always did broadcasting everything while he said nothing. "Drop it."Marco ate the cookie in one go and chewed slowly, watching him. Then: "Alex is back."Kai's head turned before he could stop it.Marco grinned."When?" The word was already out. Kai pressed his lips together, too late."Found out at the party. He was actually there that night." Marco's grin faded into something less fun. "He's the one who texted me. Said you'd gone upstairs drunk and to go check on you."Kai sat with that. Alex had been in the same building. I had seen enough to get worried. And had still chosen to send Marco instead of walking up the stairs himself."His contract training ended," Marco continued. "He's probably on leave b