In the suffocating crowd of the mate registry, one alpha's composure crumbles the moment he catches her scent. She was never meant to be his. An omega with eyes too sharp and a mouth too quick, she stirs something in him that his careful plans never accounted for. The hunger he has kept locked away for years breaks free, demanding the kind of claiming that ruins men like him. When another alpha marks her as his prize in front of the assembly, something savage takes hold. He takes her on the slick tile floor before the watching crowd, his knot locking deep while her heat claws through every pretense between them. She moans for more even as she curses him. He gives her what she begs for and what she pretends to hate, filling her until his seed runs down her thighs and his mark burns on her neck. But the registry keeps records. The rival remembers. And the omega who melts for him in the dark carries secrets that could cost him everything he has built. His obsession has become a cage with no key. Her heat demands his presence like a addiction neither can refuse. As another claiming ceremony looms and enemies circle closer, they must decide whether the bond forged in sweat and submission can survive the world outside those locked doors, or whether the men who want her will finish what they started. Two full novels of knotting, breeding, and the dangerous edge between possession and surrender.