CHAPTER 1 CONTINUED

Baek’s outburst barely scratched the room’s thick veil of arrogance. The bosses were too entertained, the alcohol too strong, the night too long.

Hime twirled her glass lazily, eyes half-lidded as if bored of this whole charade.

“Baek-ah, next time you wanna waste our time, at least book a spa. I could be getting a facial right now instead of watching your hairline recede.”

The table howled. Sira clutched her stomach from laughing too hard.

Baek’s jaw clenched, but he swallowed it down. He couldn’t lash out—not here, not when everyone was watching.

That was the thing about Hime. She mocked, teased, cussed, and everyone laughed with her. No one could quite figure out why she held such sway—why her presence, despite her height and her smugness, commanded the table.

No one… except Sira.

Because Sira knew the truth: Hime was an Omega.

One of the rarest in existence.

A secret hidden under silk and sarcasm.

If anyone else in this room—these Alphas, these predators—found out? She’d be swarmed. Claimed. Reduced.

But Hime never let them see it. She was too sharp, too smug, too untouchable. She blurred the line so perfectly that even the strongest Alphas dismissed her as just another arrogant heiress with too much money and not enough fear.

Everyone… except maybe one.

Across the table, Xander sat silent. His whiskey untouched now, his eyes steady on her.

The weight of his gaze wasn’t like the others’. He didn’t leer. He didn’t smirk. He simply watched, as if he smelled something in the air no one else did.

Hime met his stare and smirked wider, masking the flicker of unease in her chest.

“What?” she teased. “Don’t tell me I’ve left the big bad wolf speechless.”

The table chuckled again, but softer this time. There was something heavy in the silence between them.

Finally, Xander’s voice rumbled, low, velvet-dark:

“…You talk too much, Hime.”

She tilted her head, lips curling.

“And you brood too much. Looks like we’re both fucked, huh?”

Sira slapped the table, cackling. “UNNIEEEE.”

The tension snapped back into laughter, but Sira caught it—the flash in Hime’s eyes, the way her hand tightened around her glass.

Because when Xander spoke, for a second… her instincts had screamed.

Alpha.

Not just any Alpha—one who could ruin her carefully built mask with a single move.

She swallowed it down, smirk sharp as ever, pretending nothing was wrong.

“Anyways,” she drawled, leaning back, “Baek. Wrap this shit up. My shoes cost more than your office, and they’re starting to hurt.”

The other bosses laughed, clinking glasses, mocking Baek openly now. The chaos of the room was uncontainable.

But Xander didn’t laugh. He sat in silence, watching her like he already knew the secret she swore no one would ever uncover.

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