'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.
I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.
The damaged wealthy hero is actually a hugely common trope in romance, and alpha heroes are very common in romance.
It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.
Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.