Book excerpt: Two best friends have been apart for the first time in their lives, and it might have changed them more than they were ready to face... Destin I thought I was just picking up Seb, my life-long best friend, from the station for a week of wild antics. He desperately needs the distraction from his studies, he’s been working way too hard. But when I catch sight of him, my heart starts beating in a way I’ve never felt before. Seb is my best friend. We’ve basically grown up together. He’s almost like family. Only, these new feelings inside me are definitely not ‘familial’ in the same way as they used to be. I want to claim Seb, make him mine, and that scares me. I’ve never wanted to mark an Omega before… Seb These last few months have been the longest stretch of time that Destin and I have been apart, living in different cities, no longer seeing each other every day. Destin decided to stay behind to work at his father’s company, while I went away to university. After all the stress from classes and missing my best friend, I was looking forward to spending the week relaxing and catching up at home. Only, the moment I step out of the station and catch sight of Destin, I know that I won’t be relaxing this week. My heart starts to race and my body heats up, making me very aware that the guy who’s always been at my side is not just anyone, but an Alpha. An Alpha I’m very attracted to. An Alpha who, as far as I know, has no interest in male Omegas like me… This is the first novella about Alpha Destin and Omega Seb in Blossoming of Fate, which takes place in the non-shifter Omegaverse Mates World and contains mpreg (male-pregnancy). This novella may include any of these elements: steamy scenes, ‘I need tissues NOW’ moments, cries of ‘why, oh, why’ and cliffhangers that make you bite your nails (and curse the author).