Scarred Souls

He feared being touched. Until she became the one thing he couldn’t stay away from.

Hope

The cartel thinks I’m dead.

After years of violence, fear, and living under my father’s control, I intend to keep it that way. My new identity is supposed to protect me. My quiet seaside life is supposed to keep me hidden.

Then Vaughn Decker walks into my world and destroys any illusion of safety I had left.

Scarred, tattooed, and mean enough to scare most people away, Vaughn makes it painfully clear I’m nothing more than a means to an end. If I help him destroy my father’s cartel, he’ll disappear from my life for good.

But the longer we’re forced together, the more obvious it becomes that Vaughn isn’t just fighting his enemies. He’s fighting himself.

He flinches from touch like it burns, sleeps like a man expecting nightmares, and watches me with the kind of obsession that should terrify me.

And no matter how hard he pushes me away, I can’t stop wanting the broken, dangerous man beneath the scars.

Even if getting close to Vaughn Decker might ruin us both.