The Alpha Across the Hall (Primal Alphas #18)

She moved in to mind her own business. Her first heat had other plans — and so did the Alpha across the hall.

Luna Herrera is an Omega who has never once been in it for herself. She sees what needs doing and she does it — the dishes, the daycare run, the big pot of soup every Monday that somehow ends up half in his fridge. So when she moves in across the hall from an exhausted single dad and his three-year-old, taking care of them isn't a decision. It's just who she is. What she's never said out loud: being needed is the only thing that's ever made her feel like an Omega at all.

Isaiah Brooks is an Alpha running on four hours of sleep and pure refusal. Widowed ER doctor, former Army medic, built like a doorway — and locked down tight since the night he lost his wife and swore he'd never need anyone again. He tells himself Luna is just a good neighbor. He tells himself the low burn under his ribs is nothing. He tells himself a lot of things.

Then his rut starts to build. And her heat breaks early — in his kitchen, on a Wednesday, with nowhere left for either of them to hide.

He doesn't grab. He doesn't take. He gets down on the floor beside her and makes her say exactly what she wants — and what she wants is to be his. To serve him. To be claimed by him and taken care of in return. By morning she's scented, knotted, and his. By spring he's quietly rearranged his whole careful life so he never has to give her back.

He spent two years surviving. She's about to show him what it feels like to be kept.

A steamy age-gap omegaverse romance: a touch-starved widower Alpha, a service-hearted Omega who lives to take care of him, a single dad and his little girl, a first heat, knotting, claiming, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Primal Alphas Book 18 — fully standalone, no cliffhanger.