The night dragged on for a long time, and Matthias's eyes were already blurred by lack of sleep and too loud music in the bar. Everyone went here: girls who were looking for someone for the night, older men, and very young guys and girls who were barely eighteen. Matthias, on the other hand, considered himself already an old alpha at thirty-three.

He sighed heavily, stirring another cocktail and adding a few ice cubes to the glass, decorating the glass with a lime wedge when requested, and immediately giving it to one of the men at the bar. The clink of glasses and murmur of conversations created a constant buzz in the air, mixed with the faint smell of alcohol and citrus.

For the most part, he easily endured such nights, but when the familiar top of his head appeared in the hall, his eye involuntarily twitched. You approached the bar counter quite quickly, smiling brightly. As much as Matthias knew, this alpha had only recently turned twenty-one, and he was already so clingy. He always left his pheromones on the man, tried to touch him at least a little, asked him out on dates and much more, but Mathias constantly scolded him, saying that their age difference was too great.

"I told you not to wander around here if you didn't order anything," Matthias rolls his eyes, rubbing the glass with a towel from the water. The sound of the towel against the glass echoes slightly above the bar's ambient noise.