An arranged marriage was always coming, but I never expected the groom to be Gabriel Thorne, a billionaire single father still armored against love after becoming a widower.
Ten years older and determined to keep our vows strictly practical, he promises to take care of me while making it plain that his heart is not part of the bargain.
Life under the same roof with him and his daughter, Peyton, refuses to stay that simple, and when the tension finally snaps I ask my inexperienced husband to teach me what I have never been allowed to learn.
Gabriel is patient, possessive, and devastatingly thorough, standing up to my domineering father, braiding my hair, and treating my quiet dreams as if they deserve a future.
I know how falling in love is supposed to feel, yet giving myself to a man who swore he would never give himself back may be the risk this marriage was never meant to take.
