Connor by Taylor Rylan

When you’re a fae born in the shifter realm, the last thing you expect is to discover your mate is fae, sent from the fae realm just for you.

Connor Romano loves his family. Born to a vampire father and a fae mother, he’s spent his entire life witnessing firsthand the level his father would go to protect his mother, him, and their fae sister. Because of this, the last thing he wants is a fae mate of his own. The fates have other plans though.
Milo Thomas just wishes to feel wanted. Orphaned at birth and raised by his grandparents, he’s reminded frequently that he is the cause of his parents’ deaths. Milo endures and hopes that one day, he can find a way to escape the prison that he’s been subjected to for the past eighteen years.
Connor isn’t sure he’s the right mate for Milo, but the defeat in his mate’s eyes draws him unlike anything else. How could someone so young be beaten down by life already? Can he change that? Will they be able to make a life together like his parents did? Will Milo finally open up and let Connor in?

Connor is the fifth book in the Destined Paranormals series. It is a 40,000-word novella that focuses on fated mates and how they figure out those first few weeks together. This is in an mpreg world, and there will be a baby or possibly two, but this story does not focus on or cover the pregnancy.