Luca Ricci has spent his life being useful. As his family's forger — and their only male omega — he has always understood his value: rare enough to be a political asset, skilled enough to be indispensable, careful enough never to want anything for himself. When his father arranges his bonding to Damiano Conti, heir to a rival mafia dynasty, Luca expects a transaction. He knows how to perform one.
What he doesn't expect is Damiano.
When Luca's heat is deliberately triggered at the treaty summit — an act of sabotage dressed as an accident — it is Damiano who gets him out of the room, Damiano who asks what he needs rather than deciding for him, and Damiano whose bond settles over him like something that was always meant to be there. Luca files this under variables he hasn't finished assessing and tries to think clearly.
It gets harder to think clearly.
As Luca builds a life inside the Conti household — its north-facing light, its warm kitchen, the man who leaves coffee at the exact right temperature without being asked — he is also quietly building a case. Someone framed the Conti family to collapse the alliance. Someone put something in his wine. The thread, when he finds it, leads somewhere he already suspected and hoped he was wrong about.
Forged in Bad Faith is a slow-burn mafia omegaverse romance about two people shaped by the same world into the same careful distance, learning — with considerable reluctance — to put it down. It features forced proximity, mpreg, explicit content, and an ending that earns its happiness.
Genre: Romance
What he doesn't expect is Damiano.
When Luca's heat is deliberately triggered at the treaty summit — an act of sabotage dressed as an accident — it is Damiano who gets him out of the room, Damiano who asks what he needs rather than deciding for him, and Damiano whose bond settles over him like something that was always meant to be there. Luca files this under variables he hasn't finished assessing and tries to think clearly.
It gets harder to think clearly.
As Luca builds a life inside the Conti household — its north-facing light, its warm kitchen, the man who leaves coffee at the exact right temperature without being asked — he is also quietly building a case. Someone framed the Conti family to collapse the alliance. Someone put something in his wine. The thread, when he finds it, leads somewhere he already suspected and hoped he was wrong about.
Forged in Bad Faith is a slow-burn mafia omegaverse romance about two people shaped by the same world into the same careful distance, learning — with considerable reluctance — to put it down. It features forced proximity, mpreg, explicit content, and an ending that earns its happiness.
Genre: Romance
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