Lucas has been hiding for his entire life. Cursed by what he is, eeking out a living on the fringes of wizard society, he has one foot in two worlds. His birth should have been impossible, and yet, he is alive; part wizard, part shapeshifter. He's managed to live under the radar and settle himself into a comfortable life. And if he's still lonely sometimes, well, that's just something he will have to get used to.
But when his mother needs help and calls Lucas, he meets the most powerful Alpha shifter in North America; Gabriel, a wolf shifter of the old blood. In an attempt to save Gabriel, Lucas accidentaly becomes his mate. Gabriel is overjoyed, despite thinking that Lucas is only one-quarter shifter, three-quarters human. He's polite, gentlemanly, sexy-as-sin, and determined to pry Lucas out of the shadows his secrets have shrouded him in.
But a war between shifters and wizards is brewing, and Lucas knows his secret will make him a target for both sides. And his birth father - Midas, head of the Wizard council and most powerful magic user in the world - is making plays for power. Almost thirty years ago, during the first paranormal war, Midas created Lucas in an attempt to create perfect, controllable soldiers of his own blood. If Midas were to ever find out where Lucas was, he would stop at nothing to get to him, and he'd even go through Gabriel to get what he wanted.
"I didn't ask to be this way!"
"What's wrong with it?"
Kegan laughed dryly, amazed by the stubbornness of the Alpha. "What's wrong with being weak and used as a breeding tool? Take a wild guess!" he snarled.
"You aren't what they made you. Not here," Calix said, trying to get the Omega to see his reasoning.
"I will never be anything but what they made me."
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Kegan has been raised in a pack where he was taught that he was nothing and looked down on for reasons he was never told.
When he is given away to another Alpha as an heir provider, Kegan is convinced he's cursed and will forever live a life of misery and pain.
That is, until the pack is raided by the strongest pack in the country and he learns that his soul is tightly intertwined with another's.
The only problem is that Kegan doesn't see himself as anything more than an item to be put up for auction, and he's convinced that his mate will never be able to change that piece of him.
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