Golden Honeytrap

※ This novel was a sequel to the same author’s <Uprightly or Lovably> series, and it could be enjoyed without reading the previous work.

If snagging the Serpente boss’s lover’s place with nothing but a face was a skill, then that was a skill.

That was Schmidt’s usual assessment of him.

At least, until the day the infamous Serpente collapsed under his hands overnight.

“You don’t know me, but I know you. Schmidt Blair. Twenty-four. Alpha. Your father ran away after owing Serpente a huge debt, and because of that debt, your omega older brother almost got dragged in, so you took his place and became a mafia member, didn’t you?”

He had thought the man was either fearless, or blinded by the money and power of the Serpente boss. Either way, he had seemed pathetic. But he had been wrong.

“You should go home, Schmidt.”

A gentle smile, like he was soothing a child, and a hand held out in front of him.

And a sweet offer to pull him out of that hellish underworld.

The moment Lewis’s gray eyes caught the moonlight and shone like translucent silver, Schmidt thought he understood why the boss of Serpente had fallen for him.

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Five years later.

Schmidt, who had followed Lewis and entered Amabile, remade himself into Amabile’s ace with one single resolve, to stand beside Lewis.

But to Lewis, a veteran agent, love was nothing more than “fabricated business,” and Schmidt’s desperate one-sided love was nothing more than an unnecessary obstacle to mission work.

“You don’t even hate me?”

“There were times I wondered why you were so mean only to me. Was it because I was an alpha?”

Lewis wanted to push Schmidt away, and Schmidt had no intention of giving up his place beside him.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

A honey trap for a honey trap.

To break down the wall he had built, Schmidt decided to set a special honey trap designed only for Lewis.

Target: Amabile codename ‘Ro’, Lewis Hayden.

Operation type: reverse honey trap.

A beta who did not believe in love, and an alpha who had become an agent because he had fallen for him.

After waiting five years, Schmidt finally had his chance.

The chance to set the most perfect and lethal trap of all.

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Character Info

✿ • Gong (Top)
✿ • Lewis Hayden (34) – codename Ro.

Beta. Blond hair and gray eyes. Specializes in honey traps. Tall, handsome, and easy on the eyes. Thanks to his smooth, gentle personality, he was good at winning people over regardless of their trait.

Five years ago, he had casually pulled Schmidt out of the underworld, only to find that Schmidt had followed him into Amabile and, worse, had fallen in love with him. That left him feeling burdened. On top of that, being assigned to partner missions with Schmidt was more than enough to keep him on edge.

✿ • Soo (Bottom)
✿ • Schmidt Blair (29) – codename Upsilon.

Alpha. Former Serpente mafia. Black hair and black eyes, with the masculine appeal and handsome looks even Lewis had acknowledged. He had been recruited by Amabile president Robert and joined the agency, but in truth he had followed Lewis there because he wanted to become an agent Lewis would recognize. He just didn’t realize that feeling was a crush.