Some people are born into a family. Others find one. Pond, Phuwin, Gemini have spent their entire lives growing up together-living only a floor apart, sharing meals, birthdays, holidays, heartbreaks, and every ordinary moment in between. They're neighbours by address, but family by choice. Pond has loved Phuwin for as long as he can remember. He just never planned on telling him. As childhood quietly gives way to adulthood, friendships begin to blur into something deeper. Long-kept secrets surface, impossible choices test unbreakable bonds, and the people they've always called home suddenly become the ones capable of breaking their hearts. With an overprotective older brother who notices everything, best friends who know each other a little too well, and feelings that refuse to stay hidden forever, love is bound to complicate even the strongest found family. A slow-burn romance filled with longing, laughter, heartbreak, healing, and the kind of love that grows over years instead of days. Tropes: • Childhood Friends to Lovers • Neighbours to Lovers • My Brother's Best Friend • My Best Friend's Brother • Found Family • Protective Brother Trope • Slow Burn • Mutual Pining • Friends to Lovers • Happy Ending • Mature themes near the end

In the underworld, bloodline matters more than love-and power is everything The Archen and Natachai families rule the mafia world from the shadows, their names enough to make even the strongest packs bow. Bound by decades of alliance, their bond is built on loyalty, violence, and silence. There is no space for weakness. Especially not for omegas Dunk Natachai is born into a family that never wanted him. An omega in a lineage that worships alphas, he grows up learning that fragility is a sin and obedience is survival. Hated by his father and tolerated only because of his powerful alpha brother, Dunk lives quietly, carrying a love he was never meant to feel-for Joong Archen Joong was once distant but human. Then he was sent away Seven years of brutal mafia training turns him into something colder, sharper, and untouchable. When he returns, the boy Dunk loved is gone-replaced by an alpha whose presence carries danger in his pheromones and indifference in his eyes Dunk's love is one-sided, unspoken, and slowly destroying him Joong's silence is not cruelty-it is control In a world where omegas are treated as possessions and love is seen as weakness, emotions become weapons, and scent becomes betrayal. As power games tighten and blood is demanded in exchange for loyalty, both must face a truth the underworld refuses to accept: Sometimes the most dangerous rebellion is choosing to love. This is a mafia omegaverse novel about power, neglect, silent devotion, and the cost of burying the heart for survival #joongdunk #omegaverse #mpreg