Win has always lived in the background, the shadow no one sees. One of four brothers, yet he never fits anywhere in the line. It has always been about scent. Everyone carries one, sharp as graphite, soft as jasmine, warm as sunlight on skin. Win has none. A blank sheet. Not even the faint neutrality of a Beta clings to him. Nothing. His three older brothers wear scents so powerful strangers bow their heads before they can think. Alphas. Untouchable. Wanted. He was ten when they walked out of the gender clinic and everything fractured. The warmth faded. Hands stopped reaching. Questions stopped coming. He did not change. They just stopped seeing him. Years stretch thin. He learns to expect the silence. The cold shoulder. His brothers' careless arrogance. The world treats him like he is not there. By 21, he has almost made peace with it. He is scentless. Worthless. A flaw in a world built on pheromones. Then he crashes into Sea, the kind of Alpha people whisper about. The true kind. Born to lead, to burn, to own. Skin meets. Win locks up. Fire sears every nerve. Rage rises, raw and blinding. Something ancient snaps deep in his chest. He kisses him. A scentless nobody. A wreck. And still he dares to take the mouth of the man who has everything Win was never allowed to want. Sea does not pull away. He cannot. Confused, furious, burning, he wonders why his body betrays him. Why those eyes, those hands, those lips hold him captive. A True Alpha, they call him. He tells himself it is only rut coming early. That a boy with no scent could never unravel him. That it is nothing. He is wrong. He breathes in. The scent hits him like a storm - turns his blood to flame, his will to water, his pride to desperate need. It should not exist. Win was never scentless. He was a puzzle kept incomplete, waiting for the only piece that could ever fit. And that piece has always been Sea.

Hindi maikakaila ang taglay na kakisigan ni Agos. Isa siya sa mga pinaka pinagkakatiwalaan ng Datung si Gamatian, kaya naman nang mamatay ito ay siya ang ginawa nitong bagong Datu. Hindi rin namang maikakaila ang kakisigan ni Agos, isa siya sa mga taong may pinakamaraming batok-marka -- simbolo ng tagumpay.Pero lingid sa kaalaman ng lahat, siya ay may sikretong kinukubli-- isa siyang Aswang!! Papaano na ang Kinaturangang bayan kung ang datu mismo ang siyang panganib? Makakaya niya kayang itago ang sikretong ito? Gaano katagal niya kayang itago ito? Ano kaya ang mga sigalot na haharapin ng Bayan dahil sa kanyang katauhan.