Ethan Carter is a genius cellist and a cast-off omega — dumped by his fiancé for his own half-brother, drugged and nearly assaulted on the night he's disowned. Fever-blind, he stumbles into a stranger's Rolls-Royce and wakes up married. Four years later he returns with a toddler, a terminal diagnosis, and a quiet plan: win the music competition, leave the prize money to his son and his "poor bodyguard husband," then die without a fuss. He doesn't know the bodyguard is Adrian Hayes — the hidden billionaire behind the city's most powerful group, the boy who pinky-promised to marry him in childhood, and the alpha whose pheromones match his at 98%. Now the ex-fiancé regrets everything. The rival brother plays dirty. A disguised grandmother is matchmaking. And when his glands begin to fail, the richest man in the country is about to show the world what "marked for life" really means.
