One hidden omega. One patient Alpha. One impossible choice.
Lev Farrow has spent ten years pretending to be a Beta.
Suppressants.
Scent blockers.
A wolf buried so deeply no one should ever find it.
No one can know what he really is.
Then his body stops cooperating.
The Refuge was built to protect omegas, but Lev has survived too long as a beta to believe safety comes without a price. Especially when Security Commander Cormac Slade starts noticing the things no one else does.
The exits Lev always maps.
The lies he tells too smoothly.
The scent he can no longer hide.
Cormac should expose him.
Instead, he clears the hallway, sits outside a locked door, and waits for Lev to choose.
For the first time in a decade, someone sees the truth... and asks for nothing in return.
But hunters are closing in on the Refuge, searching for the hidden omega they believe belongs to them. And if Lev wants any future with the Alpha whose wolf refuses to let him go, he'll have to risk the one thing he's never been able to give. His trust.
For readers who hidden omegas, shifter omegaverse, A/B/O dynamics, protective and patient Alphas, forced proximity, first heat, hurt/comfort, consent-focused romance, possessive "touch him and die" heroes, found family, MM shifter omegaverse, knotting, claiming, bonding, and a guaranteed HEA.