Kyan comes back to Vegas intending to charm a deal from his aunt, not to discover Sai among strangers in the family's kink club, already getting hurt.
The gharial shifter he once loved spent a year teaching himself a world that never made sense, hoping he might grow brave enough to deserve another chance.
Play never slowed for Sai, and no one thought to give him a safe word.
Kyan is the one who finally checks in, yet choosing him means standing against the lioness mother who controls Kyan's accounts, his condo, and the jaguar bride already picked out.
A gentle, patient Dom and a nervous gharial now face the act his bloodline treats as unforgivable: mating for love.
