Madisyn 'Syn' West wasn't looking for a hero. She'd already learned that lesson the hard way.

 

After finally escaping a relationship that left her bruised in ways no one could see, she did the only thing that made sense—she ran. Straight into her older brother's guest room, surrounded by baby bottles and the quiet chaos of his new family. It wasn't glamorous, but it was safe. And safe was all she needed while she poured everything she had left into building her tattoo shop from the ground up.No distractions. No complications. No men.

 

Then Ryat slammed into her on a dark downtown street.

 

Literally.

 

Tall, irritating, and unapologetically arrogant, he didn't even apologize—just looked at her like she was the inconvenience. Syn wrote him off as another jerk she'd never have to see again.Until he showed up at her brother's house the next morning. In sweats. Eating her cereal. Apparently, he's her brother's teammate. Which means he's everywhere now—at Sunday dinners, in her kitchen, under her skin in ways she refuses to acknowledge.

 

Ryat thinks she's prickly, guarded, and impossible to read. Syn thinks he's cocky, intrusive, and entirely too observant.

 

They're both right.

 

But when the past Syn escaped comes looking for her, the man she's tried so hard to hate becomes the only one she trusts to stay.