He built a formula to shut his biology off. Then an alpha walked into the room and every reading went off the scale.

Soren Calloway has spent seven years proving he doesn't need anyone. A biochemist who engineered his own suppressant, he's an omega who measures everything — his heat cycles, his scent output, his carefully rationed distance from a world that treats unbonded omegas like a liability. His life runs on data. Clean. Controlled. His.

Then Dash Pruitt stops two feet away at a contractor reception, asks him which wine to pour, and Soren's whole instrument reads true mate at a strength that shouldn't be possible.

Dash has kept his alpha instincts locked down for seventeen years — ever since he learned what unchecked wanting cost the people he loved. He does careful. He does controlled. He does not do rut, or bonding, or the pull toward one impossible, infuriating, brilliant omega who argues about wine and won't let anyone close.

But biology doesn't care about seven years of suppression or seventeen years of restraint. And when a corporate acquisition threatens to seize the very formula that keeps Soren independent, the two men who've built their whole lives around control have to decide what they're willing to risk when the wanting is real — and chosen.

Because a knot is instinct. A bond is a choice. And Dash refuses to take anything Soren can't give him with his eyes open.

Knot What I Expected is a steamy, emotion-forward MM omegaverse romance with two razor-sharp voices, consent woven into the heat, a found family worth fighting for, and a hard-won happily ever after. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Just two careful men learning that the safest thing they'll ever do is fall.

One-click now and find out what happens when the most controlled omega alive meets the one alpha who won't rush him.

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