Adult Content Warning
This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
-
Tags
Summary
John Price has spent his entire adult life hiding what he is. As a decorated Captain in the military, a gruff, gravel-voiced wall of discipline and silence, he’s built a life around being untouchable, masked by scent blockers, sealed off by instinct, alone by choice. An unmated Omega, unclaimed and undiscovered, John has spent decades pretending to be a Beta. It was safer that way.
Until Millie walks into the pub.
A curvy, soft-voiced, sharp-eyed Alpha with flour on her hands and command in her bones, Millie smells like home and every suppressed instinct in John’s body rises to the surface the moment she arrives. She’s not like the Alphas he’s spent his life avoiding. She’s kind. Patient. And devastatingly good at breaking through his walls.
What starts as a tentative conversation in a small-town pub becomes a story of softness, chosen vulnerability, and the bond that grows between two people who never thought they’d find love this late in life. From nesting and knotting to pregnancies, public vulnerability, and generational healing, What We Grew Together follows John and Millie across decades of love, laughter, grief, and growth.