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    In a modern world where alphas and omegas emit flower-based pheromones that define identity and desire, Mydei suffers permanent anosmia and pheromone suppression after being poisoned with an infertility drug during a succession power struggle.

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    “You’re soaked,” Phainon murmured, not turning.

    “You’re warm.”

    Phainon set the trowel aside, wiped his hands on the thighs of his trousers, then covered Mydei’s forearms with his own, thumbs stroking the delicate bones of his wrists. “You came all this way in the rain just to get me dirty?”

    “I came to get dirty,” Mydei corrected, voice soft, lips grazing the skin just below Phainon’s ear. “The rain was incidental.”

    “You still think I mind?” Phainon asked quietly. “That you can’t scent me the way others do?”

    Mydei’s breath hitched. He’d never said it aloud, but the question had lived under every touch, every shared glance.

    “I don’t know what you get out of this,” he admitted, honest and raw. “When there’s nothing left to smell. Nothing to trigger you. Nothing to claim.”

    Phainon’s thumb traced the line of Mydei’s jaw, then tilted his chin up so their eyes locked.

    “Your scent is irrelevant matter. I want you.”

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