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    “Does it comfort you,” Dunk said, low. “To think of yourself as a fiendish beast that everyone else must seek to destroy?”

    Twelve years after Ashford, Aerion finds he cannot run any longer.

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    He knew that such a fate would one day fall to him as well. Not marriage to a dornishman, the King had surely bound Dorne close enough with all those alliances already. But marriage all the same, to whomever it might be. Some lord of convenience, no doubt, one offering advantage to the throne. A coward, perhaps. A craven. Or some doddering old fool. Mayhaps even a beta spouse who would leave him forever shackled within his own flesh. Longing, never truly satisfied, never knowing the feeling of being joined to the kind of lover capable of making him whole. 

    But this haunted him most: the thought of being bartered like a broodmare to some wretch who would never grant him any respect. Love he did not expect — he knew that was too much to hope for. But respect… Was even that too much for him to ask? 

    When the youngest Targaryen prince, the sole omega of the royal line, gets promised to a lord of the Reach against his wishes, he seeks aid on the only one he deems capable of saving him: his galant older brother, the heir to the throne.

    He did not imagine his brother to already have his own thoughts on just who his hand should be given to.

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    “If he is of the chieftain’s blood, he must be killed as well,” one of them said. His rank was evident in the heavy fur upon his shoulders and the ornamented blade at his side. The square fell suddenly silent.

    “Too precious to kill,” the one called Dunk murmured. His voice was not loud enough for the others, nor did he seem to speak to them at all.

    He only looked at Aerion. As if there were something in his eyes he meant to take. He kept looking, and looking, until the dull grey in his blue eyes seemed to lift, as though some long-rusted lock within him had been broken open.

    “Or we could sell him. He would fetch a fine price.”

    “Too precious to sell,” the alpha said again. Even if Aerion did not understand the words, he knew it was a refusal.

    “He is mine by right of the axe,” he declared then, his voice rising this time, loud enough for the whole square to hear.

    In which Aerion is meant to be a bride, loses everything before the vows can be spoken, and is claimed instead by the man who destroyed his world.

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    Maekar grows up seeing his brother as the ideal alpha, knowing that he is far from the ideal omega. He falls in love with him anyway.

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    Egg’s older brother stands in front of him, the kitchen counter between them. Dunk’s eyes are fixed on the three inches of exposed skin beneath the hem of his shirt. His jeans are slung so low on his hips that Dunk can see the v at the base of his torso, and there’s a flash of a black tattoo disappearing into his waistband.

    He’s 18, Dunk thinks, his throat tight, and you work for his family

    or: Dunk, back from college, is Egg's new babysitter. Aerion is the older brother from hell sent to torment him.

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    18 Mar 2026