When Wynter Jaymes' mate passes, he has no idea how he'll survive. Sure, the province's laws were changing and omegas gaining freedoms, but he's of another generation. He'd been mere chattel and was never prepared to make his own way without an alpha. To make matters worse, someone from his past appears and forces him to relive the worst moments of his painful past before he could barely begin to process his loss.

Why Wilder "Cav" Cavanaugh attended Warden Jaymes' funeral, he couldn't logically answer. He'd been compelled to come, memories of a single heat spent with Wynter urging him there. A skeptic, he'd never believed in the fated mate bullshit, yet one look at Wynter and he'd been done for. He'd been ready to run away with his omega and start a new life.

He'd thought his omega had felt the same, but he'd been dead wrong. Losing Wynter nearly broke him, yet there he was at that funeral, ready to pick up the pieces and beg for the scraps of his omega's love. When he finds his carbon copy at his omega's side—a young man who called another father for over three decades—the treachery magnifies the simmering anger he's held on to since being forsaken all those years before.

Wynter is forced to face Cav and the son they made that heat—and expose deep family secrets that threaten to destroy the Jaymes clan.

Trigger Warnings: Physical abuse, child abuse, mental health issues
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This book is part of Kelex's Omegaverse
Three series based in the same world

The Omega Quadrant
His Surrogate Omega, 1
Unexpected Heat, An Omegaverse Short, 1.5
Suddenly His Alpha, An Omegaverse Short, 1.9
His Reluctant Omega, 2
His Forsaken Alpha, 3
Appetite for an Alpha, 4

Alphas of the Western Provinces
One Wild Heat, 1
One Wild Omega, 2
Three Alarm Heat, 3

Omegawood
The Alpha's Hidden Desire, 1
Waking Up Alpha, 2