When the Cat’s Away by Austin Bates

“He broke my heart…and I still haven’t gotten over it.”
The youngest in a large family, omega Andre always thought he’d be settled down and having children by now. It was going to be perfect – him and Jude and their brood, their own happy ever after. But Jude left… and Andre has never quite been able to move on from him. When Andre’s brother Sunny needs a manny to care for his son Haydon, Andre believes that being the best uncle in the world is the closest he’s going to come to his own child for a long time.
“I didn’t mean to hurt him. I was just scared – but now I’m ready for so much more.”
Andre wasn’t the only one that Jude ran out on – the expectations that he would take over his parents’ bakery also weighed heavy on his shoulders, and faced with so much responsibility, Jude started to unravel. But he’s back now to reconnect with his parents… and with Andre. Because sometimes you have to lose what you really want in order to understand that it’s been there all along.