They tell me I'm a scandal waiting to happen.

My name is Blake Merritt. The only thing special about me is that I'm what they call an "omega male." A guy with complicated equipment, male on the outside, womb on the inside, south of my broken heart.

The man I loved, Dylan Conrad, left me almost eight months ago. Too bad I see him on the news nearly every time I turn on the television. He's handsome, wealthy, charismatic, and running for political office—and the reason he ended things between us left me devastated. He wanted to protect me from the ugliness of an election circus. He said he loved me. Then he left me.

He doesn't know that I'm pregnant with his child.

When Dylan shows up on my doorstep after all this time, he's shocked to learn I'm in the final weeks of my pregnancy. Dylan is as stunned to know he will soon be a father as I am to hear him say that leaving me was his biggest mistake.

That he has never stopped loving me.

But that doesn't mean I'm ready to fall back into his arms. There are scars on my heart now, and everything has changed.

Dylan is a man who thrives on challenges, but things may have gone too far. Has he forgiven me for never telling him that I was pregnant? Can I forgive him for shattering my heart, even if it was to protect me?

Because the world he plays in is merciless and full of dirty tricks, and my very existence is a scandal that can cost Dylan everything. I don't want to be hurt again, but I have plenty of my own secrets. Not just his daughter in my womb, but that I never stopped loving him...

Reader note: contains mpreg and m/m romance, a second-chance romance, plenty of hero grovel, not-so-secret babies, and pregnant omegas. It is a complete story with a happily ever after.