Rescued by the Alpha SEAL (Iron Hollow Protectors #1)

Prologue

LOGAN

Y ou don’t expect a ghost to slam into you at thirty miles an hour in a Montana snowstorm.

But there she was—half frozen, wild-eyed, and swinging a messenger bag like she meant to take my head off.

I should’ve turned away.

Should’ve turned my back and let the dark swallow her whole—just another stranger running from a secret she wouldn’t name.

But the second I saw her face, I knew.

She wasn’t just running.

She was being hunted.

And she was running out of time.

I’ve spent the last five years buried in Iron Hollow—off-grid, off-radar, and off-limits. Built a life where nothing gets in and no one gets close.

Because the last time I let someone in, people died.

Now she’s here.

A woman with secrets stitched into her skin and fire in her bones.

A woman who looks at me like I’m the threat—while something worse circles closer in the dark.

She doesn’t trust me.

She shouldn’t.

I’ve done things she’ll never understand.

But I save her anyway.

Because she needed help.

Because she looked at me like salvation was a myth, and I wanted—just once—to prove it wasn’t.

And the second her body collapsed against mine, limp from exhaustion, heat burning through cold skin, breath ghosting my neck like a brand?—

They stir my primal instincts.

I didn’t ask for this.

Didn’t want this.

But I’ll be damned if I let anyone touch her.

She’s mine to protect.

Even if the truth she’s carrying burns this whole town to the ground.

And I’ll kill whoever tries to take her from me.