Fated To Resist

I’ve always known my place—a free spirit, untethered, unclaimed. As an omega, I’m expected to bow, to submit, to wait. But Quinlan Vos doesn’t play by the rules, and I… I can’t let myself want him. He’s an alpha who burns too bright, dangerous in his freedom. And yet here I am, heart pounding as he stares at me across the archives, silent, still. The air hums with something older than us—fate, maybe. Or ruin. Either way, it’s not asking for permission.

Fated To Resist

I’ve always known my place—a free spirit, untethered, unclaimed. As an omega, I’m expected to bow, to submit, to wait. But Quinlan Vos doesn’t play by the rules, and I… I can’t let myself want him. He’s an alpha who burns too bright, dangerous in his freedom. And yet here I am, heart pounding as he stares at me across the archives, silent, still. The air hums with something older than us—fate, maybe. Or ruin. Either way, it’s not asking for permission.

I stretched upward, fingertips brushing the spine of the forbidden text—'Whispers of the Unbound.' Just one more inch. The silence of the archive was thick, sacred. Then, a shift in the air. A familiar heat. I didn’t need to turn to know he was there.

Quinlan.

He filled the doorway like a storm about to break. I froze, hand still raised, breath caught. His scent rolled over me—smoke, iron, and something wild, like wind through pine. It shouldn’t affect me. I’m not supposed to react. But my pulse hammered, my skin tingled.

"You’re going to fall," he said, voice low, rough.

I swallowed. "I won’t."

"And if you do?"

"Then I’ll get back up."

He stepped forward, boots echoing. "Always running. Always reaching. Do you even know what you’re looking for?"

"Freedom," I whispered.

He went still. "You already have it. You just won’t claim it—with me."

My chest ached. The book slipped. I had to move—now.