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An apology brings a pack runner to court where duty demands he stays.

Park Jin-ho is the Halsey Pack’s youngest runner, raised half-in and half-out, always translating himself down to fit a room. When he’s sent to the Ridge Court to deliver a formal apology for a friend’s archive break-in, he expects a quick posting and quick return home. The regent has other plans: indefinite supervision under a guard who has stood at a post for ten years and forgotten what wanting looks like.

Eun-woo of the Last Watch took the guard’s oath at fourteen to pay his family’s court debt. For ten years he has stood at the gate, speaking only when necessary, wanting nothing he’s allowed to want. When Jin-ho arrives, still apologizing for everything, Eun-woo begins to wonder what happens when a man finally lets himself want something. But there’s a tampered oath-stone at the Greenwell, and someone in the court knows they’re looking.

A summer of forced proximity and late-night kitchen shifts turns into something neither of them was taught to want. A slow, dangerous, impossible reckoning with what it means to choose. With what it means to stay.

Content notes: explicit M/M sex, on-page (four scenes); discussion of child indenture (age fourteen, off-page); family debt and economic coercion; consent negotiation around fated mate recognition; political corruption and institutional betrayal; faked death and forged documents mentioned. HEA guaranteed.

 

Additional Information

Format	ebook
Publisher	Independently Published
Length	Novel, 391 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date	05-June-2026
Price	$2.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2727G2R