DAMN YOU, ALPHA
He was supposed to protect me. Instead, he destroyed me.
Damn you, Alpha.
Brian Kingsford is an Omega pretending to be an Alpha in a world that would devour him if the truth came out.
So when his father assigns him a new bodyguard, Brian expects another man he can intimidate, manipulate, and eventually drive away.
He is wrong.
Ace Duskmere is a disciplined Alpha, an ex-soldier who believes he knows his boundaries. He's the first person who refuses to be intimidated or manipulated by Brian's attitude. Naturally, Brian makes it his mission to break his control.
What begins as a game of provocation soon becomes something neither of them expected. Stolen glances turn into lingering touches. Arguments become charged with something neither man wants to name.
And the more Ace tries to keep his distance, the more Brian wants him.
But there's just one problem.
Ace is married.
He has a wife who loves him and a daughter who adores him. And he's supposed to keep the reckless billionaire heir alive—not become the man Brian can't stop thinking about.
Brian knows he should walk away.
He doesn't. He's never been good at walking away from something he wants.
Because Ace becomes the first person who truly sees him. The first person who stays when Brian expects everyone to leave. And eventually, the only person Brian cannot control.
Every choice Ace makes to protect his family destroys Brian a little more. Every choice he makes to protect Brian destroys his family a little more.
And Brian's father, Elias Kingsford, will not tolerate anything that threatens his family's reputation, his political future, or the plans he has made for his son.
Now Brian and Ace are trapped between desire, loyalty, and a secret that could destroy them both.
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Chapter: NOT HOW A BODYGUARD BEHAVESBRIANAce took the package from the concierge before I'd even seen the elevator light.Flat gray paper, a card tucked under the ribbon. Weston's handwriting. Ace turned it over once, read the name, and set it face down on the hall table."Send it back.""You haven't even looked at it.""He waited at that hotel until midnight." His voice was flat and very controlled. "He doesn't get paid off with one more gift. He doesn't stand a chance with you."It had been three days since the Marlowe. Ace had stopped hiding what he felt without ever announcing it. He stood closer. He kissed me often. We had sex constantly. We cuddled. And whenever *Cole* lit up my phone, Ace went quiet, glaring at the screen like he wanted to put a fist through the name. He was still my bodyguard, but he stood like a man guarding something that belonged to him. I should have been thrilled. Mostly I was afraid. We did everything a couple did, even bathing together. But I still wasn't sure what we were together. Lov
Last Updated: 2026-10-13
Chapter: NOBODY TOUCHES YOU BUT MEBRIANSaturday, I dressed for it slowly. Fitted tuxedo, the white one I hadn't worn. The silk tie was loosened just enough. I stood in front of the mirror and looked at a man I didn't recognize, someone about to make a terrible decision on purpose.Ace was waiting by the door with my coat over his arm."The car is downstairs," he said."Is that all?""Yes.""You're really going to drive me there?""It's my job."I laughed, short and hollow, and tried so hard not to break in front of him, though my heart already had. At last, I picked up my overnight bag, my hands shaking no matter how hard I tried to make it stop. I knew he saw all of it. Without looking at him, without begging again, I started for the door. If he doesn't want me, I'll show him how well another man does.My hand was on the doorknob when his voice stopped me.“Don't go.”It was so quiet I almost missed it. I turned, too fast like I was scared he would change his mind the moment I delayed.He was still standing there
Last Updated: 2026-10-12
Chapter: DO YOU ACTUALLY WANT MEBRIANThe photo ran on page one of the Sunday society section. *KINGSFORD AND COLE: THE MATCH NOBODY SAW COMING.* Weston's hand at the small of my back, close to my hip, his mouth on mine, my eyes closed, my smile so convincing I almost believed it.My father sent a single text. *Well done.*It was the first thing he'd said to me in years that wasn't a threat.---The real dates started. Two weeks of it. Dinners, a charity gala, a polo match where I hid behind sunglasses and let Weston explain the rules. He held doors and I let him. He remembered I hated cilantro. He made me laugh twice, and both times I checked whether Ace had seen us. I tried to gauge his reactions to everything. Ace saw everything. He drove us in silence, eyes on the road, hands steady. He sat in the front seat of a car where two men leaned toward each other in the back and never once looked in the mirror.On the fifteenth night, he missed a turn while driving.It was so small that Weston didn't notice. We were he
Last Updated: 2026-10-12
Chapter: LET'S TRY DATINGBRIANIt had been nine days since the patch incident.And since I bought myself a new phone and locked away the one my father had power over.I didn't trash it. My father would notice. I decided to play the game of choosing when he could track me instead.Ace hadn't touched me once. He spent most of his time in the study or out of the house. He drove me where I needed to go, and stood three feet behind me like a man on a leash he had chosen himself. The man who had parked outside Felix's building all night now looked at me the way he looked at doorways.He had asked to leave. I hadn't forgotten it. And he said he shouldn't have given me hope.How wrong he was. He had no idea I didn't regret any of it. My only regret was letting a game become something that hurt me. Ace had plainly decided not to want anything to do with me anymore. And he stuck to it like the disciplined ex-special forces soldier he was.---Jax's birthday was on the roof of a members' lounge called Halcyon. Halcyon
Last Updated: 2026-10-11
Chapter: BECAUSE OF HERBRIANThe elevator in Felix's building smelled like old carpet and someone else's takeout. I leaned against the back wall, one hand on the rail, the hangover pulling at me with every slow floor.Ace was leaning against the SUV when I came out. He had on the same shirt as yesterday, stubble shadowing his jaw.Two empty coffee cups were on the dashboard behind him. He didn't move toward me. He looked me over once, head to foot, the way you check something you were afraid to find broken."You're upright," he said."Disappointed?""No."I frowned and stopped a full arm's length away. Something was wrong with the picture, and it took my aching head a second to find it."Did you spend the night here? How did you even know where I was?"He held my stare and said nothing, his eyes giving away more than his silence did."Felix's place isn't in any file you have. He moved here in June. I never gave you this address.""Your phone.""My phone's been silent since I turned it face down, right afte
Last Updated: 2026-10-10
Chapter: HE'S JUST A BODYGUARD BRIANAce's study door was open two inches again.I stopped in the hallway with my jacket over one arm and my keys in my fist. Eavesdropping had become a bad habit of mine ever since that day he asked to be free."No, he'll be there too," Ace was saying. His voice had gone warm, the way it only did for one person. "I'll make sure of it. Tell Flaminia Mr. Rex is invited too."Melinda's laugh came through the speaker, small and bright.Dinner with Melinda's family was today. Sunday, by five. I had promised to come with Ace.I stared at the gap in the door for a long moment. Then I took the service stairs all the way down, because the private elevator dings and Ace's hearing was too good.---Felix was idling at the corner with his headlights off."Venom's dead. The club too," he said before I'd shut the door. "Cops have been parked on it since your crash at their race track. Don't worry. Rico's uncle has a boathouse on the river, that's where we've been hanging out. Private, no cameras,
Last Updated: 2026-10-09
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