PACK RULE #9: FATE COMES SECOND FOR A SINGLE DAD

I didn't move to Cooper Valley for love.

I'm here to raise my daughter in peace, work at Wolf Ranch, and keep my wolf on a tight leash.

Because I don't have time for distractions. Or complications. And definitely not both in the form of a female.

Joy is my new next-door neighbor-sweet, sexy, and entirely off-limits.

She always has a messy bun and a laugh that melts steel.

She makes my little girl giggle like I've never seen before.

She makes me burn with need.

She's sunshine. I'm thunderclouds.

I tell myself I'm too gruff, too brooding, too busy being a father to want her.

But my wolf doesn't care about rules. He thinks she belongs to him.

He knows she smells like fate... and tastes even better.

How can I stay away? In the end, it seems fate will decide for me.