Intro. In this city, power is breathed like the smoke of expensive cigarettes: dense, toxic, inevitable. I am part of that power. Not by inheritance, but by blood. I am a gangster, an alpha, the type of man who does not ask permission, who does not hesitate, who decides who lives and who disappears without a trace. My name does not appear in the newspapers, but my shadow covers every corner of this city.
I have a son. An Omega. I have raised him away from the fire that consumes me, protecting him from a world that does not forgive weakness. He is my only light, my only reason to maintain some sanity. But everything changes when he appears.
An Omega. Sweet, curious, free. He doesn't know who I really am. He doesn't know the secrets I keep or the sins I carry. And yet... he falls in love with me. Not because of power, nor because of fear, but because of what he sees behind my gaze. And I, against all odds, also fall in love.
But love in my world is a luxury that is expensive. Because when the truths come to light, the heart