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Kai moves first; leaning back against the armrest.

“Well.Shit.”He whistles. “Cool, cool, cool. Just casually rewriting biology. No pressure.”

Lucian shakes his head, already dismissing it. “Rare-pack’s a myth.”

“No,” I say. “It’s rare. Not imaginary. There are case studies. Documented.”

Kai holds up a finger. “Also mentioned in that Alpha-Omega erotica series you swore you didn’t read.”

Lucian glares at him. “This isn’t a joke.”

“And yet here we are,” Kai mutters, dropping dramatically onto the couch. “Jokes and knots and panic attacks. What a life.”

“It explains everything,” Ash says quietly. “Why we didn’t go feral. Why we didn’t fight. Why every time one of us bonded her, the others felt it too.”

Lucian’s glare is thunderous. “And what - conveniently, we’ve juststumbledinto one?” he continues. “Are you seriouslysaying we justhappenedto find an omega whose biology is wired for all four of us?”

“No,” Ash mutters. “We didn’t juststumbleinto her -”

“No - sheraninto us,” Kai corrects, with a lazy wave of his hand. “Literally. Through a gala. Inheels. Iconic, really.”

Lucian shakes his head. “No one’s that lucky.”

“Or that doomed,” Kai adds. “Depending on your perspective.”

“Dramatic,” I note.

Kai just grins. “I mean, statistically speaking, I’ve definitely been overdue something wildly inappropriate and illegal.”

I brush him off with a shake of my head.

“She’s a biological anomaly,” I say. “But it doesn’t matter how rare it is. The OMB won’t accept it.”

“They’ll call it deviant,” Ash adds. “Unnatural.”

Kai scoffs. “They still think bonded alphas sharing a toothbrush is a felony.”

“We need to get ahead of it,” I say. “There’s a loophole. One I think Lucian’s father accidentally gave us.”

Thatgets his attention. His eyes sharpen.

“What loophole?”

“If we can prove her bonds are instinctual and stabilizing - not chaotic - we might be able to classify her as a Pack-Stabilizing Omega. It’s not a common designation, but it exists.”

Kai perks up. “Wait, is that like being the emotional support omega?”

Ash grunts. “More like biological glue.”

“She’s notglue,” Lucian snaps.

“No,” I agree. “She’s the structure. The one thing holding four alphas together without any of us losing our minds. That’s the definition of a stabilizing force.”

“And the claim?” Ash asks.

“We wait,” I say. “Until she’s ready. Until we have paperwork. Until the OMB has no excuse to intervene.”

“And if they come early?” Lucian drawls.

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