I never planned to come back to Winter Crest.

Not after the night my scent broke loose in a locker room full of Alpha boys, and two of my closest friends turned on each other in a way I still have nightmares about.

For 12 years, I stayed gone. Suppressed. Silent. Safe.

But now I'm here for my dream job as an NIHL photographer… and the moment I step into the arena, everything inside me goes wrong.

My suppressants fail.

My scent leaks.

And the only two Alphas who don't go violent are the ones I swore I'd never face again.

Luca Vale—cold, lethal, captain of the Frost Kings.

He was the boy who used to protect me… before he became the man who looks at me like he wants to own every breath I take.

Jaxon Roarke—reckless, magnetic, captain of the Steel Wolves.

He was the boy who would've burned the world for me… before he became the man who would tear it apart if I walked away again.

Now they both scent-lock on me.

Both claim they're the only ones who can keep me safe.

Both feel the same impossible pull I do.

Because my biology hides a secret:

I'm a rare dual-bond Omega, designed for two Alphas.

And the bond they triggered as kids never died.

It only went dormant.

Until now.

Now the rivalry between them borders on feral.

Now my heat is coming—dangerous, unstable, unstoppable.

Now I'm trapped between two enemies who would bleed for me… and slaughter for each other.

I thought the real danger was choosing between them.

I was wrong.

The real danger is what happens when both captains decide I'm theirs, and refuse to let me go.

Two rival Alphas.

One forbidden Omega bond.

One heat that could ignite an entire league.

And a truth none of us are ready to face…

Sometimes you aren't meant to choose.

Sometimes you're meant to surrender.