Scent of Ruin: Dark MM Omegaverse Romance with a Possessive Alpha and Enemies to Lovers

Caius Vael has sat through four hundred and twelve intake hearings. He does not find the work distasteful. The wards run because someone makes them run. He is that someone — alpha, Court enforcer, the High Warden's most reliable instrument. He reads every accused the same way: face first, then hands, then the specific quality of their composure under pressure.

Emery Ashvane is brought in on a Tuesday.

He is twenty-six, charged with dismantling seven load-bearing scent-wards in Ward Five and operating as an unlicensed designation-sensitive healer. He stands in the dock with his hands loose, his face doing a very careful nothing, and cuts straight across the High Warden's formal reading with a flat, unhurried voice to say that the charges don't reflect what he actually did and he'd like to address that now.

The Court recorder stops writing. The junior assessors go still. Caius looks at him.

Then the scent comes through — past the holding smock's neutralizing compound, past the Court's industrial-grade suppression filtration, past the collar around Ashvane's throat that is specifically engineered to block designation signals. Not enough to identify. Just enough to be impossible. Rain-wet stone and something warmer beneath it, something Caius's body registers before his mind does.

He sets his pen down on the charge sheet with great deliberation and does not look at Emery Ashvane again for the rest of the hearing.

He will have to look at him again. That is the problem. The case is his to prosecute, which means the man standing in that dock will be in front of him for the next several months. And what Ashvane was actually doing in Ward Five — what the wards he dismantled were actually doing, and why — is going to require Caius to decide what he's loyal to.

Dark, sharply drawn, and built around two men who are on opposite sides of a system that turns out to be more wrong than either of them fully understood. If MM omegaverse romance with real political weight and enemies-to-lovers tension that earns every degree is your read, this book is it. Get it now.

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E-bog: 4. april 2026