He Inherited My Protection

After Brett Bachman died, I withdrew from the family we had shared and the future we had planned. Grief became my whole existence.

His younger brother is the last man I should want.

When Rockland returns to New York, he tells me that Bachman tradition places my protection in his hands.

Infuriating, commanding, and far too perceptive, he notices the meals I skip, the work I avoid, and the anger I use to hide how completely I am falling apart.

Then he moves into my home. Forced under the same roof, our lifelong antagonism turns dangerously intimate, and he challenges me to live again. Wanting him still feels like a betrayal of the man we both loved.

When duty calls him back to Greece, I have to choose between the safety of my grief and an uncertain future with the forbidden man who has always understood me. Rockland says loving him will never erase Brett. I know it could still change my place in the Bachman family forever.