> "There was never supposed to be a second moon."
In the capital of Caelis, where the hierarchy of Alphas, Betas, and Omegas ruled every breath of life, two moons now hung in the night sky. The first, pale and constant, belonged to the Alphas—their law, their pride, their fire.
But the second… it was new. Quiet. Rejected. Rumored to bring madness. The elders called it the cursed moon.
Eun-Ha had seen it only once, years ago, through the bars of a cold metal cage.
He remembered the silence of that night. No howls. No soldiers. Just him, curled on the floor, skin bruised from being "disciplined," his heat suppressed with forced injections. They had called him a failed Omega—too defiant, too loud, too dangerous.
He had called himself alive.
Now, free but hunted, Eun-Ha lived in the shadows. A tattoo on his shoulder marked the day he broke out—flames and thorns twisted into the shape of a shattered collar. He never bowed. Not to an Alpha. Not to anyone.
Noah, on the other hand, had never been caged—but he had been broken.
The world took his brother, his family, his name. He'd survived by disappearing. Quiet corners, false IDs, and the scent suppressants that burned his throat every time he swallowed them.
He thought Omegas couldn't destroy each other.
He was wrong.
He met Eun-Ha in the dead of winter, when even the second moon refused to shine.
And in that moment—Omega to Omega—something shifted in the stars.
Something forbidden.
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