Playing You by Claire Cullen

Needed—one omega assistant. Should be proficient in filing, typing, and, um, role-play.

Riley just can’t catch a break. With no job and no place to live, things are tough. He clings to his love of acting—pretending to be someone else, even for a day—but he can’t get hired to wait tables let alone get a bit part in a play. Just when he’s at his lowest, he meets Brendan. And his luck changes.

Brendan’s search for an assistant for his private investigator business isn’t going well. Then he meets Riley, an omega with his eyes on a career on the stage but his feet firmly on the ground. Brendan doesn’t usually hire people he finds out by the dumpsters, but he sees something more than a homeless omega in Riley. He sees potential.

The job Brendan offers Riley comes with a unique selling point—the alpha wants Riley to play the role of his omega partner when one of his cases calls for it. But when their first outing as a couple goes a little too well, they’re both determined to go back to just being friends. Until Brendan needs Riley to play a role much closer to home—his boyfriend at a family get-together. What could possibly go wrong?

Playing You is the third book in the Omega’ s Luck series. It’s an omegaverse shifter romance featuring two oblivious shifters, mpreg, and a smidgen of roleplay. There are some scenes not suitable for readers under the age of eighteen.