Ravenous

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>PACK RULE #9: FATE COMES SECOND FOR A SINGLE DAD</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I didn't move to Cooper Valley for love.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I'm here to raise my daughter in peace work at Wolf Ranch and keep my wolf on a tight leash.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Because I don't have time for distractions. Or complications. And definitely not both in the form of a female.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Joy is my new next-door neighbor-sweet sexy and entirely off-limits.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She always has a messy bun and a laugh that melts steel.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She makes my little girl giggle like I've never seen before.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She makes me burn with need.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She's sunshine. I'm thunderclouds.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I tell myself I'm too gruff too brooding too busy being a father to want her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But my wolf doesn't care about rules. He thinks she belongs to him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He knows she smells like fate... and tastes even better.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How can I stay away? In the end it seems fate will decide for me.</span></p>