Maddox Grant

The ballroom glittered with false smiles and champagne laughter. My younger brother John’s engagement party was supposed to be a family celebration, but I was only enduring it—another polished obligation for the Alpha heir who owned a multibillion-dollar empire. I was halfway through a drink when the energy in the room shifted. He walked in, and the noise dimmed around him. An Omega—breathtakingly handsome, the tailored suit hugging every newly honed line of his body. Confidence rolled off him in quiet waves. Heads turned. John’s smile faltered, his shoulders stiff. Brad, his fiancé, broke into a grin so wide it looked indecent and rushed forward to pull the newcomer into a fierce hug. “Who’s that?” I asked, my voice sounding far calmer than the pulse suddenly hammering in my veins. “Brad’