The fifth prince's omega
Aurean Veldar, the only Omega born to the prestigious Veldar family—one of the Empire’s founding bloodlines—was always treated like a cursed flaw in a legacy built on Alpha dominance. He was quiet, obedient, precise. Everything his father, Lord Halric Veldar, despised.
When the Empire’s succession war begins to boil beneath the surface, Halric throws Aurean into the fire. To secure favor with Second Prince Kael, the ruthless contender for the throne, Halric gives his son a final chance to "redeem" his bloodline: assassinate the Fifth Prince, Rythe Damarion—a brutal war hero feared across the continent. A man loyal to no one but the throne—and the Empire's greatest shield against Kael's rise.
But Aurean fails.
He’s captured.
And instead of mercy, he's met with scorn—not just by Prince Rythe, but by his own blood. His father, seeking to protect his political ties, publicly disowns and denounces Aurean, branding him a rogue assassin driven by envy and bitterness. Branded a traitor, his name stricken from the family ledgers, Aurean is sentenced to a fate worse than death:
He is to serve Prince Rythe Damarion as a personal slave—collared, broken, and kept beneath the heel of the very Alpha he was sent to kill.
Rythe, cold and ruthless, accepts.
But not to show mercy.
To make a lesson of him.
Yet as days stretch into weeks, and Aurean refuses to break, Rythe begins to see that the fragile-looking Omega who knelt before him in chains might not be as weak as he seems. There’s steel beneath his silence. Purpose behind his defiance.
And scars that run deeper than the blade he once held to Rythe’s throat.
In the shadows of court politics and the rising chaos of war, a forbidden bond begins to stir—but will it bloom into salvation, or burn them both alive?