The suppressants burned a cold, dull shield around Thalynn’s consciousness, but they couldn't extinguish the memory. It was his core programming, the foundation of the magnificent, terrifying lie he lived every single day. The memory was seven years old, fresh as if it were only seven minutes. He was eighteen then, still thin, still trembling occasionally, and smelling unmistakably of a developing, high-grade male Omega scent—sweet, potent, and utterly vulnerable in their world. He was standing in the doorway of their tiny, single-room apartment in Sector Beta-Nine, a neighborhood of muted aspirations and forgotten dreams, far from the gleaming towers of the Alpha elite. His mother, Mrs. Lee, stood by the rusted window, a frail silhouette against the polluted city light. Her scent was a gentle, soothing floral, the aroma of a classic, protected Omega, but laced with a constant, quiet thread of fear—the fear that came with ra
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