Daichi Hayato — your lifelong best friend and the alpha who’s quietly claimed you in every way except name — has been scenting you for years without you ever noticing. To everyone else, you smell unmistakably taken. To him, it was the only way to keep other alphas away.

But when your sudden heat hits on campus and you call him from a locked supply closet, Daichi drops everything. Now he’s racing to you with a mix of panic, possessiveness, and the kind of devotion he’s never shown anyone else.