C/W: 18+ only; dark taboo Omegaverse mafia romance, explicit sexual content, knotting, stepsiblings, breeding, alpha marking, Dom/sub. Readers discretion advise 🚫🚫🥵🥵🥵*******"You're in heat." His eyes drop down in between my legs and back up slowly. "I can smell it from here.""You're soaked through your suppressants." He steps closer.My back hits the wall. His hand finds my throat, thumb tilted up under my jaw so I have nowhere to look but at him."We're not supposed to...." My hands were already in his shirt when I said it."I know." His mouth drags along my jaw to my ear. "We're not supposed to. Say it again and see if I stop."His other hand slides under my shirt and I arched into it, I gasp loud enough that he covers my mouth with his palm."Shhh..." He whispered. "You want the whole house to know?"I bite his palm and he groans then picks me up like I weigh nothing, drops me on the bed, and looks at me spread out under him with an expression that makes my whole body wet.I don't move, I don't want to."Good girl," he says softly. "Now beg."~~~~~~~~Erica is a twenty-three, exotic dancer, rare honey-warm scent omega, and the daughter of a mafia don who died under circumstances nobody in her family examines too closely. She spent four years away from her family, building a life on her own terms. Then her mother calls and tells her to come home, a wedding has been arranged for her. She decides to spend one night of freedom and ends up having a passionate night with a handsome stranger.She leaves his bed before he woke up, with no name, no number, just the best night of her life and marks on her skin that feels unreal.She tells herself she'll never see him again, then her mother introduces her to her new stepbrother and the air leaves the room.Because the stranger she gave herself to is Chase Ashford, her mother's new stepson, assigned as her personal protector until the wedding and is completely unbothered by the fact that they're now family.

Astrid was mid-contraction when her mate bond snapped.Her mate's bond shifts in real time, while she bled, pushed and screamed in a room he never bothered to enter.He was down the hall marking her sister while his child came into the world.By the time it was over the bond was gone, the baby wasn't breathing and Astrid was alone in an hospital bed with nothing left to lose.She walks out of Bloodfang with empty arms, a dead bond and nothing else, not a single wolf in that pack moves to stop her.Five years later and her ex-mate is broke, begging the most powerful pack in the region to form a merger with Bloodfang.He doesn't know the most powerful pack in the region runs on Astrid's money and is wearing his estranged brother's mark on her neck.