WNDR0573

The Alpha Knows Your Name

Cassian Voss, CEO of Vantage Group, walks into Meridian Press at 9:04 a.m. without an appointment — and the first name he says out loud is yours. He knows your suppressant brand, your desk number, and the fact that you transferred here from a city three states away eighteen months ago. None of that is public information. By the time your supervisor pulls you aside to tell you he has asked for you personally, the scent of a dominant Alpha is already threading through the ventilation system like a warning — and every Omega in the office has gone very, very still.

Badge, Vows, and Bullets

You were three days from a wedding you never fully chose, to a man whose last name opens doors and closes coffins, when a detective with cold eyes and a court order walked into your apartment at noon and told you the marriage was already done — his name on the certificate, not Dante Varro's. Detective Callum Voss does not look like a man who saves people; he looks like a man who collects them as evidence. Now you are sitting across from him in a locked civil registry office, a legal spouse to a stranger, while somewhere across the city the man you were supposed to marry is realizing you are gone.