Moore than Expected by Liam Kingsley

Coming home has never meant coming back to Blackwater – it’s always meant coming back to him.
They say that being chosen as Alpha Select is an honor – and it is. But I’ve spent six long years away from home, undergoing the rigorous, brutal training to be my pack’s next leader. I’m no longer the insecure boy I left as. Now I can recite my shifter history backwards and forwards. I can negotiate business and diplomatic deals to help my people. I can take down any opposing wolf that I meet in battle.
But none of it means anything if I can’t claim Austin as my mate.
I don’t know if we’re fated. I don’t know if he wants to be anything more than my best friend. But I’ve been holding back my feelings for him for too long already. Now I’ve got a plan to win his heart – and to protect him from a rival alpha who won’t take no for an answer.