Upon hearing those words, it was like a mountain of guilt had landed on Arden, threatening to crush him. He felt like his body was not his own as he nodded silently at Addie and completed his escape.
So, he thought blankly, that’s how the President saw it.
She had made it sound like Arden was being all noble by wanting to keep his true second gender a secret from Kade. She didn’t even comment on the fact that Arden had been lying by omission all this time, never once declaring that he was actually an omega.
While omegas were considered a protected class and it was illegal for employers to discriminate against them based on gender, many still didn’t follow the law by the letter.
It was supposed to be only a safety protocol for omega employees to disclose their second gender to relevant
