Protecting His Curvy Girl

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Why was he alive? </em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It wasn't fair. Austin Ward had no one. No wife or daughter or even a damn dog. So why was he alive and his partner the one with all those things was dead?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Austin wasn't the only one who wanted answers. His dead partner's sugar-sweet librarian daughter showed up at his house and forced her way inside demanding the truth. Her tear-stained cheeks and red-rimmed eyes gutted him. He ached to wrap her curvy body in his arms and lose himself in her. Erase his pain and hers at once.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But Lacey MacNeil was off-limits. Forbidden. Innocent and too vulnerable for a man like him to take advantage of in her agony. Even if he understood it shared it.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>So Austin did what he had to do and threw her out.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Right into the crosshairs of the man who killed her father.</span></p>