The story
It is just a formality, he said, on their wedding day.
Reynolds says it to Eliot and leaves to greet his comrade, four years of lies and another Alpha's scent still on him. Eliot does not cry. He pulls the ring off, drops it at his feet and walks into the hall across the way. Vaughn has been waiting in there for four years with white roses, starlight lamps and a ring he has kept since they were children. He climbed four ranks in that time purely to rewrite the law shutting Omegas out of the mech bay, and never said a word about it.
