It was never supposed to happen like this.
Honey was a Beta—ordinary, grounded, someone who believed in steady paths and quiet love. He once dreamed of marrying a fellow Beta, building a life free from the chaos of Alpha dynamics. Love, to him, was soft, logical, predictable.
Until he appeared.
An Alpha—unexpected, commanding, yet impossibly gentle. Their meeting was coincidence. Their love, inevitable. This Alpha didn’t dominate. He listened. Cherished. He looked at Honey not as less,
but as everything. And so, despite what society whispered—a Beta with an Alpha?—they married.
And it worked. Until the night of the accident.
Honey survived. But his sight didn’t. The world dimmed to darkness… yet his husband remained. At first.
Then something shifted.
The man who returned home weeks later wasn’t quite the same. His scent was off—still cedar and citrus, but unfamiliar beneath. His voice? Slightly deeper. His touch? Just a little too sure.
New cologne,
he said.
Just working out more,
he laughed.
Honey doubted. But the man held him that night like something fragile, worshipped his skin with trembling reverence. How could Honey not believe?
But the truth?
Minjae was dead. Buried quietly days after the crash.
And the one wearing his scent now… was Seo Seoryeon—an Alpha from Honey’s past. Quiet. Obsessive. He hadn’t caused the accident—but he saw an opening. He stepped in. Stole a life. All for love.
And now, in the present…
I’m home,
that same voice called.
Familiar. Almost.
Warm hands wrapped around Honey from behind. A kiss to the temple. A breathless whisper:
Did you miss me?
And still, Honey smiled.
Unknowing.
Unseeing.
Loved by a lie.
It was never supposed to happen like this.
