How to Deal When Your Intimidating Neighbor is Actually an Omega

Kota is a college student and a proud Alpha, but you’d never know it from the way he scurries past his neighbor’s door. The man next door is a walking wall of intimidation—towering, carved with sprawling black tattoos, and radiating an aura so fiercely dominant that Kota has always assumed he must be an Alpha of the highest order. For months, Kota has treated the hallway like a minefield, dodging any encounter with the brooding hunk and convincing himself that some predators are simply best left undisturbed. That carefully maintained distance shatters in a single, dizzying instant when an intoxicating wave of pheromones seeps through the walls, hitting Kota with a force that muddles even his dullest senses. It is unmistakably the sweet, heady call of an Omega in heat, and it’s coming from next door. Convinced that his terrifying neighbor has finally brought a partner home, Kota braces himself for an awkward escape—only to stumble upon the last revelation he ever expected. The source of that devastating scent isn’t some mysterious guest; it’s the tattooed giant himself, writhing and utterly alluring in a way that shatters every preconception Kota ever held. Now trapped in a corridor of confusion and dangerously rising tension, Kota must navigate a neighbor who is nothing like he appears, a primal instinct he can barely control, and the mortifying secret that he has never been with anyone at all. With his pride, his safety, and his virginity all hanging in the balance, he has to figure out how to survive this encounter without revealing just how hopelessly out of his depth he truly is.