Claimed By Design: An Age-Gap, Secret Baby Dark M/M Omegaverse Novel (The Chase #2)
E.A. Adams
One chase.
One buried truth.
One omega who was never meant to stop running.
Curt Stockton doesn’t enter The Chase looking for salvation. He enters because the past has teeth, the future is closing in, and hiding has finally run out of room. Fifty thousand dollars to run. A quarter million to be caught. It’s spectacle. It’s survival. It’s not supposed to be personal.
Until he scents Leonid McNeal.
Six years ago, Leonid was the careful professor who wanted Curt but never chose him—the alpha who let Curt disappear without a fight. Now he’s wealthy, powerful, and stepping into the preserve with one goal: find the omega who vanished and froze his life in the aftermath.
Curt runs with intent. Leonid hunts with restraint that’s cracking by the hour.
The forest becomes a battlefield of memory and instinct—taunts carved into scent trails, apologies swallowed by distance, and a bond clawing its way to the surface despite everything they never said. Curt wants proof Leonid will chase this time. Leonid wants forgiveness he may not deserve.
And neither of them is ready for the truth Curt has been carrying for five years.
Because the most dangerous thing in The Chase isn’t being caught.
It’s what happens when running finally stops.
A dark MM omegaverse romance featuring second-chance obsession, forbidden history, survival heat, secret parenthood, forced proximity, and an alpha who learns—too late and just in time—how to fight for what he wants. Includes emotional damage, family corruption, public spectacle, and a hard-won HEA.
