Caught Off Guard

Carter “Pup” has one job in the Pack — seduce the mark, open the door, get out clean.

No feelings, no attachments, no exceptions.

It has always kept him safe.

Then he meets Daniel Rourke.

Daniel is everything Carter should avoid — older, controlled, impossible to read, a man who can undo him with a single look.

What should have been a simple setup for the Pack’s biggest heist turns dangerous the moment Daniel sees through him… and doesn’t look away.

Carter knows better than to want anything real.

And Daniel doesn’t fall easily.

But as the job draws closer, loyalty twists into guilt, and desire becomes something Carter can’t talk himself out of.

Caught between the family who raised him and the man he was sent to betray, Carter is one choice away from losing everything — the mission, the Pack, and the fragile connection he never meant to build.

Falling for the target was never part of the plan.

Walking away from Daniel Rourke might be the one thing he can’t do.

Content Warning

This story contains explicit sexual content between consenting adult men (M/M), including rough power dynamics, dominance/submission, and graphic sexual acts.

It also explores emotionally intense themes, including trauma, emotional dependency, fear of abandonment, incarceration and confinement, criminal environments, grief, and reconciliation.

Intended for mature audiences only.

Reader discretion is advised.