Three pairs of eyes stared back at him. 

YooJin paused. Two men were on either side of a smaller man, one YooJin recognized instantly as a male omega. The man whose arm was perched against the wall above the omega’s head was broader and taller than any man he had ever seen. The other man was of comparable height and build to TaeHyun and stood beside them.

“What do we have here?” said the shorter of the two alphas as he turned to look at him.

YooJin met the omega’s eyes. He didn’t know what was going on but he could guess. The omega looked cornered.

“Let him go,” said YooJin, stepping into the room.

The bigger of the two alpha’s reached out and gripped the omega by the arm when his friend stopped him.

“Let him go,” the alpha said, a small smile on his face.

The larger man looked at his friend questioningly before releasing the young man.

The omega stumbled as he ran toward YooJin.

“Are you okay?” YooJin asked, not taking his eyes off the alphas.

The omega nodded, then turned and glared at the two men. “My alpha will hear about this!” he yelled before turning and running out of the room with surprising speeds.

YooJin blinked as he watched the him run away.

“Ah,” said the shorter of the two alphas as he made his way toward YooJin. “You just cost us our omega.”

“It sounded like he already had an alpha.”

The man ignored that as he stood in front of him and began to slowly circle him. “My, my, what a strange thing. Look, Seok, his pants are ripped.” He turned back to YooJin and smirked. “Did you come here alone knowing that two alphas would be here?” He suddenly leaned forward and sniffed at his neck. “Hmm… omega?”

“You can’t seriously think—” said the larger man who was now leaning his arm against the wall and watching them.

“I think he is,” the alpha continued slowly. “Though such a plain looking one…. He can’t be one of ours.”

YooJin quickly turned when the sounds of soft footsteps emerged from behind him.

A tall woman walked into the room, briefly meeting YooJin’s gaze. His eyes were drawn to the large scar that ran down from her temple to the opposite cheek.

She stared at him for a moment before turning away.

“What are you two doing here?” she said to the two alphas. “I’ve been waiting fifteen minutes for you.”

“Ah, Sera,” said the shorter of the two men. “Look what we have here. What do you think? An intruder or someone’s omega?”

She walked past them and picked up a scroll that was sitting in the middle of the floor.

The alpha grabbed YooJin's chin and forced him to meet his eyes. “He's not much but—”

YooJin pushed the hand away from his face.

The alpha stared at him in surprise for a moment before laughing. “You have quite the nerve for an omega,” he said before his head moved in a single nod.

Suddenly, a large hand grabbed YooJin’s wrist and pulled him high up off the floor. On instinct, YooJin quickly grabbed the bicep of the hand that held him.

“Look at that!” the shorter man said with a laugh. “He’s a monkey. Seok, swing him around and see if he'll hold on.”

YooJin gritted his teeth, gripping tight, as the large man swung him around as though he weighed no more than a ragdoll. When Seok stopped, the other alpha grabbed him by his hair, forcing their gazes to meet once again.

“What an ugly expression,” he said, “befitting an ugly omega.”

“My, my, look at him. He’s got some guts to look at me like that.” The alpha then yanked YooJin’s head back further. “Obviously, you don’t know much about us alphas. If you did, you wouldn’t have even dared to look us in the eyes. I think we need to teach him a lesson about the order of things.”

“I could do it,” said Seok, a grin upon his face that indicated an enjoyment at brutality.

“You’ll kill him if your fist so much as touches him,” came the soft, disinterested voice of the woman from across the room.

“Sera’s right,” replied his friend with a smirk. “You can hardly control your own strength. If you kill him and he actually turns out to be someone’s omega, though I highly doubt it, you could be expelled. Instead,” he yanked his hair once more, forcing YooJin’s eyes to meet his. “Let’s punish him in the way only alphas can punish omegas.”

The female alpha was quiet for a moment and YooJin saw a brief look flash across her face before she looked back down on the scroll she had unraveled. “He doesn’t interest me.”

The alpha turned to look at her. “You’re not going to join us?”

“No."

“Ah, I forgot how fussy you are. I wonder if it’s because you’re still female despite being an alpha.”

She turned to him and in a soft voice said, “Perhaps, the next time we’re in a dungeon I’ll just let the monsters rip out your heart.”

The man laughed then turned back to look at YooJin. He lowered his head and YooJin tensed when the alpha’s teeth softly grazed his throat. Bile suddenly threatened to rise up. “He’s not much to look at but his pheromones might be good and if that turns out to be the case,” he said with an smirk as he dragged his tongue across the path his teeth made only seconds ago. YooJin felt goosebumps form on the back of his neck. “I might even make him my mate.”

The large alpha laughed. “Three isn’t enough for you, Won-il? Are you looking to form a harem?”

“Maybe,” Won-il replied, a chilling smile upon his face while his eyes remained on YooJin’s. “Or maybe I’ll just get rid of one and replace them with him.”

“Just give Jae to me. I’d love another taste of her,” said the large alpha, laughing.

YooJin saw a brief flash of anger pass by the female alpha’s face before returning to its original, almost bored expression.

“Then I’ll leave,” she said. “The thought of your two dicks is unpleasant.”

The large alpha finally released him and as YooJin stumbled onto the ground he could see him turn to her with a large grin. “You won’t know for sure unless you try it. Why don’t you join us?”

She did not reply and instead, walked through the door, disappearing into the hallway from which YooJin had come.

YooJin turned back to the other two, gazing at them warily. He knew he was in trouble.

He suddenly pulled himself free from the large alpha’s grasp and hoisted himself up onto his back, using the force of his body to kick the man down onto the ground.

“What the hell?” Seok said in surprise just as he fell forward.

The shorter alpha blinked as he met YooJin’s eyes from behind his friend’s back.

YooJin glanced at the door. It wasn’t closed all the way, there was a small gap.

“Grab him,” he heard Won-il hiss and before he knew it, YooJin was slammed onto the ground, the large alpha’s hand upon his chest.

The large man glared down at him.

“Ah, it looks like you may have hurt my friend’s pride,” Won-il said with a grin as he crouched down beside his head. “You see, he is one of the strongest hunters ever and he doesn’t take kindly to being taken down like a fool.”

YooJin tried to take a breath but the pressure of the alpha’s hand was crushing. He had never felt such strength before.

“Let him go, Seok,” Won-il said lazily, now looking at his nails.

Seok’s eyes held his even as he pressed down on him for a few seconds longer before finally releasing him. YooJin coughed and sat up quickly, attempting to scramble away from them when the large alpha grabbed him by the back of the neck and forced him to meet their gaze.

“Once he gets a whiff of my pheromones," Seok replied. "I’ll have him loud, panting and begging for it.”

Won-il tsk’d. “See? What did I tell you? You got him mad. He might even make you his mate despite you not being his taste whatsoever only to throw you away later.”

YooJin’s body tensed as his blood ran cold. He had no desire to be anyone’s mate, certainly not this buffoon’s or his friend.

In his head, he quickly calculated the distance from where they were to the infirmary. He had been gone a while, if Yoon had returned then, all he needed to do was get back. He didn’t want to have to rely on an alpha but if the alternative was this then—

The large man’s hand tightened around his neck as he felt his face creep closer to his nape.

Terror reared its ugly head and suddenly anger burst within him. He hated feeling helpless.

Won-il laughed. “He’s so angr–,” he said almost gleefully when his words were suddenly stopped by a large, wet gob of saliva that had been launched into his face.

Suddenly, Seok released him as Won-il grabbed his hair as his other hand wiped at his face.

“For your insolence,” he hissed in sudden anger and YooJin could tell exactly when his pheromones began to spill about him for the air became thick with a disgustingly sweet scent.

YooJin gagged. The alpha was pouring out his pheromones in a massive wave, one YooJin had never felt before.

“He doesn’t seem to be reacting much,” Seok said as he stood beside them, amused. “Perhaps your pheromones have no effect on him.”

“Shut up,” Won-il hissed back, pulling at YooJin’s hair and exposing his neck even further. 

YooJin’s eyes widened in panic as he watched the alpha lean in, his teeth exposed. His bite wouldn’t be enough to make him his mate but the bite of an alpha had the property to make an omega compliant and damn if he would let those nasty teeth anywhere near him.

YooJin pulled back and brought his arms forward, slamming his fist into the soft flesh above the alpha’s elbow. Won-il’s eyes widened in pain as he released him.

YooJin took that opportunity to scramble to the door when arms dragged him back to the ground and a fist came flying at his face, knocking his glasses to the ground.

Won-il struck him again and again in unhinged fury and YooJin idly wondered if anyone had ever raised a hand against this man before, desperately wishing that he be given the chance to be the one to give him his first beating.

The arms YooJin had held up to protect his face fell to his sides as the large alpha dragged him up with his arms clasped behind his back. “Anymore and you might kill him,” he said and Won-il, whose face was still twisted in fury, finally stopped.

“I’m going to make you my mate,” Won-il said, fury clear on his face, “and I’ll abandon you, forcing you to feel a pain so unimaginable, that you will forever regret your actions today.” He then grabbed again at the hair behind YooJin’s head and exposed his neck.

YooJin kicked at the large alpha with all his strength but the man barely blinked. His eyes widened in fear as he tried to twist away when suddenly Won-il was yanked viciously away from him.

The alpha cursed as he hit the ground. “Who the hell?” he hissed as he turned his head. He then paused.

“What the hell, it’s you TaeHyun,” Won-il said as he moved to stand. “I thought you were the chief.”

“What are you doing?” TaeHyun asked and YooJin couldn’t help but note that his eyes were as cold as ice.

Won-il however, seemed not to have noticed instead, picking himself up and brushing the dust from his clothes. “We found this omega sneaking around like a little rat near the guild room. He wouldn’t tell us who he was so we thought we’d teach him a lesson.”

“And who are you to do that?” Tae Hyun asked, his voice as cold as his gaze.

“Ha – like I said —” he started but then suddenly gasped. Both he and the large alpha stumbled and fell to their knees. YooJin, thankfully being of sound enough mind, rolled away before the large man fell atop him.

“What are you –” Won-il gasped. “Why?”

YooJin could feel the thickness in the air. The pheromones TaeHyun emitted were nothing like the ones he had released in the ‘Omega’ club. They were aggressive, threatening, and dangerous. It was a warning only an alpha like him could give.

YooJin dragged himself away. The room they were in was rapidly filling up with the potent scent. 

His knees started to feel weak and he fell to the floor. He briefly turned to look at the other two, whose eyes had rolled back into their heads. So this is what a high level alpha could do, he vaguely thought to himself. It was indeed terrifying. He felt so weak against this but at least, unlike the others, he was still conscious.

“You,” a voice said above him and YooJin looked up to see the alpha staring down at him. “What are you doing here?”

YooJin merely stared at him for a moment, surprised that he had strength enough to feel the irritation that was budding within him. That was the first thing this man had to say? “Admiring the ceiling.”

The alpha gave him a disgusted look. “You really are pathetic.”

And despite knowing that this alpha had saved him once again, the irritation YooJin felt toward him somehow trumped the anger and fear he had felt only moments ago. A surge of energy suddenly burst within him and he reached forward and pulled the alpha’s pants leg up, revealing his ankle and before he knew it, before his mind even caught up with whatever his body was doing, YooJin Tae, an plain omega, a nobody, moved forward and bit the leg of one of the most powerful alphas in the country as hard as he could possibly muster.