Protecting Him: White Wolves Family Book One

by Jacey Davis

Protecting Him is book one in the White Wolves Family series. This novella was originally titled Knot Mine to love and featured in the Knotting Hearts Anthology. It has been expanded into novella length. Protecting him is a mafia shifter omegaverse with MPreg.

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Genres: Omegaverse, Friends To Lovers, M M Romance

90 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 10, 2026

About the author

Jacey is an M/M and Fantasy/Paranormal fiction writer. She's a Jersey girl through and through, and after a brief time in North Carolina, is back in New Jersey with her husband, two daughters, and her black lab mix. When she's not writing, Jacey is catching up on Netflix shows, reading, and most of all, playing with (aka chasing after) her kids.

Reviews

[Whitney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Emilio + Nico 🖤
Wolf shifters | Fated Mates | Age gap | Best friends little brother


"Be sure, little wolf. If I fill you, you're mine. Consequences be damned."

"Shh, it's okay, baby. I got you. I'll take care of you."



⚠️ potential spoilers below in detailed tropes, content and warning lists






Tropes/content:
Wolf shifters
10 year age gap
Fated mates
Best friend and packmates little brother
"Little wolf"
Car sex
Bathing together
Knotting
Mating bite
First heat
First times
Virgin
Mine
Mpreg
Touch him and die
Epilogue 1 month later - Nico gets a positive pregnancy test, one of the men responsible for Nico's rape attempt was caught and getting ready to be tortured. Nico was gifted the honors by Lio
Basically an HEA but theres a note at the end that says the story continues in the next book


Warnings/icks:
Brief torture and killing on page (not torture of MCs, but by an MC to bad guy)
Brief mention of trafficking (why the guy above was tortured and killed)
Forced heat through needle injection (from bad guys) to Nico
Threat of gang rape to MC (doesn't happen) from neighboring bear pack

[Cath · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 ⭐️

This book was… an experience indeed 🙈

It felt like doing crack because it has all the tropes I can NEVER tell any of my friends about….

So we got:
🔖 Wolf shifters
🔖 Omegaverse
🔖 Best friend’s little brother
🔖 Age gap (10 yrs)
🔖 Knotting
🔖 Mpreg
🔖 Nesting
🔖 Losing virginity
🔖 Fated mates

AND IT’S ALSO LOWKEY A DARK ROMANCE????

Someone stop the trope rolling, I have nobody to tell about this…

Anyway, don’t let my rating fool you. The problem is me, not the book.

The book is great. I LOVE omegaverse, but it has to be done to my own liking (which is very specific), and that barely ever happens.

So this might be a 3-star read for me, but for you it might be 5 stars 🙈

[Betty Loves Books Galore · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an omegaverse / mpreg romance, featuring Nico and Emilio, and is a book one in the White Wolves Family series.

Nico is sick of being a virgin and travels to a neighbouring territory to meet up with someone to finally lose his virginity. Things don’t go according to plan and he is injected with something to force his first heat, lucky for him, Emilio comes to protect him and finds out Emilio is indeed his fated mate.

I really enjoyed this one. Nico and Emilio were perfect together. I would have liked more of them but as it’s a series, I have a feeling we will see more, yay! I’m hoping the older brother gets a book.

Things to expect in this book are:
Book 1 in series
Novella
MM mafia romance
Omegaverse
Brother’s best friend
Age gap
Virgin MC
Forced heat
Fated mates
Spicy times & dirty talk
Car s*x
Knotting & mpreg
Carries him
Runs him a bath
Possessive
Found family
HEA

[Shyandmoodreader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great and spicy Omegaverse novella

I am such a sucker for Omegaverse that the minute I heard about this I ran to download it. And I'm so very glad I did. Emilio and Nico's story is short, sweet and spicy but utter perfection. I loved the slight tension between two alpha clans and Emilio having to finally come to terms with Nico as his fated mate! All in all, it was a great read and I can't wait for Santino's story 😈.

[Gavy Vera · Rating 4 out of 5]

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5.

En menos de cien paginas paso de todo y no se sintio apresurado para nada. Me sorprendio como establecio la relacion entre todos los personajes sin que se sienta apurado y me gustaron mucho Nico y Emilio. Voy a seguir leyendo la serie.

[Ansu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick easy read nothing too dramatic about it or memorable.

[neptunian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cootie patootie honey

[Rana · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's refreshing to see a book that isn't ambitious - it promises something (not much, after all it very short) but it delivers!

[Kristy Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick lovely read

This novella is a lot of fun. Mafia, fated mates, mpreg, sassy strong omega, sweet fierce alpha.

Definitely recommend. Dual 1st pov