Lady and the Hunter (Alpha Mail #3)

Chapter 1

To: Alpha Mail

From: Lia Quinn

Subject: A request I shouldn’t make.

Message:

I’ve spent years fighting men like the one I’m about to ask for.

Men who take.

Men who decide.

Men who don’t check first to see whether the world approves.

I can’t shake the truth I’m too proud to say out loud.

I want someone who feels like danger in human form.

Someone who looks at me and sees what I bury:

a woman who is exhausted from being good.

Send me a man who doesn’t ask permission to enter a room.

A man with sure hands, steady aim, and instincts honed somewhere far from Charleston.

A man who knows how to track what he wants—and takes his time doing it.

I won’t pretend I’m ready for him.

I won’t pretend I won’t regret this.

But if you send someone…

don’t warn me.

Don’t soften him.

Don’t make him safe.

Just let him come.

And let me face what it means to want a man like that.

—Lia