I never questioned why Kain was always there. Was that a mistake?
I’ve spent years building my life around my best friend Kain. He reminds me to eat. To sleep. To shower. He keeps track of everything I forget and somehow always knows exactly what I need before I ask.
Kain says it’s because we’re friends, and I’ve never had a reason to question him.
When he’s hired to help revive Dusk Protocol, the game I’ve loved for half my life, I finally get the chance to explore its forgotten history. But buried inside the restored archives, I find traces of something that doesn’t belong.
Hidden messages.
Dead accounts.
Secrets powerful enough to get someone killed.
The deeper we dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Then someone comes after Kain.
For years, he’s been the constant at the center of my world. The one person I never had to worry about losing. But as old secrets surface and the people behind them close in, I start discovering secrets much closer to home.
Because Kain hasn’t just been protecting me. He’s been playing me.
And the more I learn about the life he built around us, the harder it becomes to tell where devotion ends and obsession begins.
Scroll up to one-click Played by Design, a dark MM Alpha/Omega romance.
Played by Design is a dark contemporary MM Alpha/Omega romance featuring childhood best friends, oblivious mate, possessive Alpha energy, a touch him and die mentality, forced self-discovery, gaming obsession, hidden identities, criminal conspiracies, found family, protective caretaking, relationship sabotage, explicit consent, and a love story hidden in plain sight.
Genre: Gay Romance
I’ve spent years building my life around my best friend Kain. He reminds me to eat. To sleep. To shower. He keeps track of everything I forget and somehow always knows exactly what I need before I ask.
Kain says it’s because we’re friends, and I’ve never had a reason to question him.
When he’s hired to help revive Dusk Protocol, the game I’ve loved for half my life, I finally get the chance to explore its forgotten history. But buried inside the restored archives, I find traces of something that doesn’t belong.
Hidden messages.
Dead accounts.
Secrets powerful enough to get someone killed.
The deeper we dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Then someone comes after Kain.
For years, he’s been the constant at the center of my world. The one person I never had to worry about losing. But as old secrets surface and the people behind them close in, I start discovering secrets much closer to home.
Because Kain hasn’t just been protecting me. He’s been playing me.
And the more I learn about the life he built around us, the harder it becomes to tell where devotion ends and obsession begins.
Scroll up to one-click Played by Design, a dark MM Alpha/Omega romance.
Played by Design is a dark contemporary MM Alpha/Omega romance featuring childhood best friends, oblivious mate, possessive Alpha energy, a touch him and die mentality, forced self-discovery, gaming obsession, hidden identities, criminal conspiracies, found family, protective caretaking, relationship sabotage, explicit consent, and a love story hidden in plain sight.
Genre: Gay Romance