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Cracking His Code is a dark MM romance for readers who like their love stories dangerous, their heat explicit, and their anti-heroes completely, catastrophically gone for each other. Oliver Blaese has two rules. Never get caught, and never let anyone have the upper hand. He broke the first one the second he hacked a corrupt senator’s private server and downloaded a ledger tying him to a global human trafficking ring. Now half the billionaires in the world are trying to put him in a body bag. He needed a shield. So he hired Kirill Nikolaev. That was his second mistake. Kir is a Russian assassin who kills people for a living. He also possesses a calm that feels less like patience and more like a loaded weapon pointed directly at Oliver's self-control. While bouncing between European safe houses, systematically assassinating the syndicate's architects before they can find them, Oliver realizes Kir is the first person who's ever looked at him like he knows exactly what he needs. And what Oliver needs, it turns out, is someone who doesn't ask. Someone who takes. What starts as forced proximity becomes something neither of them immediately understand. Something that lives in the space between command and surrender. Between a punishment deferred and a promise kept. Oliver hates how much he wants to kneel. He hates, even more, that Kir already knows it. This is a story about two men finding, in each other, exactly what they didn't know they were missing. One a natural dominant who's never wanted anything this badly, the other a brilliant, defiant brat who's never trusted anyone enough to let go. Until now.

My mate, Jasper Morrison, says coldly, "Elena, I'm breaking our mate bond." We stand on the open ground at the edge of the Silvermoon pack's territory. The full moon hangs high overhead, and this should be the sweetest moment for fated mates. We've loved each other for ten years. And now, he's about to break the bond Moon Goddess has given us. "Why?" I ask in a shaky voice. "You're an orphaned wolf," he says, turning his face away. "You don't have the bloodline to match me. The pack Elders have already approved this." A tearing pain rips through my chest. Having the mate bond stripped from me feels like my soul is being torn apart. I collapse to my knees, gasping for air. "Serena's father is one of the strongest Alphas in the North," Jasper says, looking down at me without a trace of guilt. "She'll help me rise as the strongest Beta in the Silvermoon pack's history." "You said…" I clench my teeth, fighting the pain. "You said you'd spend your life with me." "I was young and foolish," Jasper replies, already turning away. "The bonding ceremony is in three days. I suggest you don't cause trouble." Moonlight glints off his retreating form. I watch him walk away, my fingers clutching the moonstone bracelet my mother left me. It's my only keepsake. A message from an unknown number appears. "Elena, this is Damon, your older brother. I've been looking for you for 20 years." "I've attached a black card with unlimited credit. The resources of the entire Blackwood pack are at your disposal. No matter what you're facing, I've got you." I stare at the screen. The Blackwood pack? The top wolf pack in North Anthica? Another message soon pops up. "I'll come get you in three days. Wait for me." My finger hovers over the delete button. It has to be a scam. I'm just an orphaned wolf. How could I possibly have a brother from the Blackwood pack? Just then, a voice message from Jasper arrives. "Elena, for old times' sake, I'll arrange a place for you in one of the pack's spare houses when the ceremony ends. You can stay as part of the pack. I'll take care of you." He wants me to watch him bond with another she-wolf and thank him for keeping me in the pack. I delete Jasper's contact, then rename the unknown number in my phone to "Damon". My fingers tremble as I type a single word. "Okay."