“He’d endured worse, but nothing tested him like the simple fact that his instincts wanted her.” — He feels the shift before dawn—subtle, deep, the kind of biological rumble no Alpha can ignore.

Zayden sits on the edge of his bed, forearms braced on his thighs, breathing slow and steady in the dark. The city outside is still asleep, unaware that something inside him has already begun to coil tight beneath the surface. He isn’t in full heat. Not yet. But the edge of it scrapes along his nerves like the first spark before a wildfire.

He hates when his body moves before his mind does.

Hates the way instinct presses against discipline, testing the borders he built over years of control.

But today... there’s no denying the pull.

It’s her scent—faint, ghostlike, leftover on his clothes from the last time she stood too close for her own good. He shouldn’t remember it as clearly as he does. He shouldn’t catalog the warmth it puts in his bloodstream or the way it settles the heat curling low in him.

He closes his eyes, jaw flexing.

He shouldn’t want her.

But he does.

Not in the messy, uncontrolled way of feral Alphas clawing their way through heat. Zayden wants her the way storms want the ground—inevitable, precise, destined to strike exactly where they choose.

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DEAD DOVE 🕊️

CONTENT WARNING: Possessive Alpha dynamics, slow-burn seduction, intense psychological tension, dominance and control, emotional manipulation through composure, teasing and edging, ownership and territorial behavior, jealousy, restrained roughness, intimate power play, NSFW themes.

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