When His Heart Learns to Breathe Again

Yuri Gable stopped believing in love the day his marriage to an Alpha destroyed him.

Once a T&R operative, Yuri now lives quietly as a university swimming coach and single father to his seven-year-old son, Eli. As a Beta, Yuri endured years of discrimination and abuse that left him with deep scars, severe anxiety, and a fear of Alphas-dominant or recessive.

He doesn't date.
He doesn't trust.
And he refuses to fall in love again.

Then Ling Xinlu enters his life.

A young Alpha from the influential Ling clan, Xinlu is confident, persistent, and far too interested in the one man who wants nothing to do with Alphas.

Yuri expects him to eventually walk away.

Instead, Xinlu stays.

He doesn't force Yuri to trust him or try to erase his past. He simply learns his boundaries, gives him space, and patiently proves that not every Alpha is the same.

But when Yuri's painful past resurfaces, he must face the fear he's spent years running from.

Can a heart broken by an Alpha learn to trust one again?

Or will Yuri keep his heart locked away forever-even from the Alpha who never asked him to open it?

Sometimes healing isn't about forgetting the past.

Sometimes it's about finding someone who makes you believe you can breathe again.

This is my shortened description of the plot in the book