He had eleven months left. His biology didn't wait.
Emery Sato is twenty-four, unregistered, and running out of time. In a near-future America where the Designation Act requires every omega to submit to Bureau-assigned bonding by twenty-five, Emery has spent six years doing the impossible: hiding. Black-market suppressants, forged beta papers, a stockroom job in a desert town too small to notice him. Eleven months from aging out of mandatory assignment. Eleven months from free.
Then the suppressants fail. His first heat in eight years hits in a grocery store parking lot, and the Bureau dispatches the alpha pair who've been on the waiting list for three years.
Noel Lindqvist is cold, precise, and built like a man who has carried things heavier than his own silence. Tomás Restrepo is warm, loud, and arrives at a forced bonding assignment carrying his mother's cooking. Together, they have legal authority, biological compatibility, and the patience to wait out an omega who would rather claw through a wall than accept what his body already knows.
Emery doesn't want the bond. Doesn't want the knot, the claiming bite, the nest his hands keep building from stolen hoodies while he sleeps. Doesn't want the way his body floods at the scent of birch soap or leans toward cinnamon without his permission. He doesn't want any of it.
His biology didn't ask.
BONDED is a dark omegaverse MMM romance that follows one reluctant omega and two very different alphas through forced mating, heat cycles, knotting, dubious consent, and the slow, devastating collapse of a man who defined himself by running — into someone who chooses to stay. This is not a rescue story. This is a story about what happens when the body arrives somewhere the mind hasn't agreed to go, and what grows in the space between captivity and belonging.
Featuring: an alpha pair with opposite approaches to claiming, involuntary nesting and pheromone bonding, explicit heat and rut cycles, bond bites that open a permanent emotional channel, a world where biology is law, and a door that was never locked.
This book contains graphic content, dubious consent through biological imperative, and dark themes intended exclusively for adult readers.
He spent six years running from his designation. They caught him in an afternoon. The worst part? He could leave tomorrow. He won't.
