Reek:
I never wanted kids. I never wanted commitment either. Family never felt like something I was built for. Everybody who was supposed to love me made me feel left, used, or in the way, and I never wanted to ruin a child the way that I had been. So, when Ava came back from Thailand pregnant with my baby and four months too far along, my whole world came apart at the seams. Ava was already the one woman I couldn't get out of my head. Beautiful and stubborn, she got under my skin in a way no other woman had. Now she is back in Chicago carrying my child, looking at me like I owe her something more than lust, and I am stuck between the walls I built and the woman I cannot stop chasing or thinking about. The deeper I fall, the more I realize Ava is not just temptation. She is home, and that scares me more than any enemy ever could.
But while I am trying to make peace with fatherhood and a future I never saw for myself, my hands are still dirty. Sienna's deception forced me to put the cartel at risk, and opps reappear, starting a war. Bodies are dropping, revenge is circling, and the same man learning how to love his child and baby's mother is still the man willing to kill to keep them safe. Because Ava might be my soft spot, but the world around us is anything but.
