Imitation Mate

Tsukasa is the very picture of an elite alpha—born into a prestigious family, groomed for success, and now a rising executive in his father's corporation. He has lived his entire life by the rules of status and hierarchy, looking down on omegas and holding himself to an unyielding standard of alpha perfection. But a chance reunion with an old high school rival threatens to overturn everything he believes. Yoshiki was once Tsukasa's equal in ambition, yet the man he meets now is nothing like the alpha he remembers. Carefree, unkempt, and living with a baffling lack of discipline, Yoshiki seems to have abandoned all pretense of alpha pride. When they share drinks to catch up, Yoshiki drinks too much, and Tsukasa finds himself escorting his intoxicated former rival home. In that vulnerable moment, Yoshiki makes an unexpected advance, whispering that intimacy between alphas can be its own kind of pleasure. Though Tsukasa initially resists, the raw, forbidden pull of the encounter sweeps him away, and what begins as a single lapse quickly becomes a recurring entanglement. He reassures himself that this fruitless affair can end whenever he chooses—after all, it cannot produce bonds or offspring. But when strange, unsettling changes begin to stir within his own body, Tsukasa realizes that some instincts cannot be reasoned with, and that the line between control and surrender is far thinner than he ever imagined.