Reclaimed

“This one is silent,” Pryde said of Rey. “Very young. Quite docile, too. And she’s in exceptional health.”

“She’s pretty,” the alphas would say. Sometimes they’d reach a finger or two into the cage to pet her. At first she did not want to get adopted, sure that Grandfather would be coming for her any day. Inevitably, though, each alpha who stopped at her cage read her chart, and she watched their faces as they found her status, highlighted at the bottom of the page: PREVIOUSLY CLAIMED. And they moved on.

Or: After the passing of new legislation, Rey and thousands of other omegas are rescued from the abusive grasps of their alphas. She gets adopted by a new alpha and braces herself for the cruelty she’s grown used to. But Ben isn’t like other alphas, and Rey slowly warms to his kindness.