"I'm toxic, but maybe she's the antidote." 

 Callous, calculating, and controlled, I’m a man with no one to care for and nothing to lose. A man to reckon with. 

At least until my carefully emotionless life is upended when she’s placed under my protection. 

Wren Caputo. 

The off-limits daughter of my dead best friend.

From the moment she looks up at me with those pretty gray eyes, she owns me.

Even as I fight it. 

Even when I push her away. 

When I hurt her with venomous words. 

And unforgivable actions.

Somehow, she sees past the man I present to the world.

She doesn’t flinch when faced with my worst self. Instead, she unlocks a side of me that I didn’t know existed anymore. 

She makes me feel. 

More than I’d ever believed possible.

I’m falling for her, forbidden or not. 

Right or wrong. 

She's destined to be mine. 

Until the reason she came into my life becomes the very reason she may be driven from it.

And I’ll do everything in my power to keep her safe from forces that would drive us apart. 

 Because even though I don't deserve her...I'm taking her anyway.