The difference between being kept and being chosen.
Seren Voss has spent six years hiding what he is. As an omega operative in his family's criminal organization, survival means suppressants, scent neutralizers, and never, ever getting caught.
Then he gets caught.
Emilio Cavallo should have interrogated him. Should have used him for intelligence, leverage, or worse. Instead, the Cavallo underboss offers protection Seren never asked for—and doesn't trust. Because alphas who say they're protecting you are usually just finding prettier words for ownership.
But Emilio keeps giving Seren choices. Keeps asking instead of taking. Keeps proving that being wanted isn't the same as being owned.
When six years of chemical suppression fails and Seren's heat breaks through, the stakes change completely. One night of desperate biology becomes something neither of them planned for—a pregnancy, and a future that terrifies them both.
Now Seren has to is staying because you want to different from staying because you have to? Can needing someone be something other than surrender?
And when his former family comes to reclaim their "property," will the life he's building with Emilio be enough to make him fight for it?
A scorching M/M mafia omegaverse romance about the difference between being claimed and being chosen. Features an omega who refuses to perform weakness, an alpha who asks for consent even when biology says he doesn't have to, found family, mpreg, and a happy ending earned through trust instead of biology.
I enjoyed reading this story of two rival Mafia families finding someone to love. Seren broke into a rival's home to gather intelligence for his family. This becomes a story of gaining self autonomy after a lifetime of none to finding his forever love. Highly recommended book.