They say you can’t outrun your past.
They’ve never met me.
I disappeared the night my cover blew in Caracas. One second I was an undercover linguist working the kind of operation that doesn’t exist on paper. The next—I was bleeding, hunted, and very much alone. Until he found me.
Dominic Laredo.
Navy SEAL.
A man with no patience, no filter, and no idea what I really am.
He was supposed to be a one-night mistake.
He turned into a marriage license and a borrowed name.
Now I’m living in his house, wearing his ring, and trying to remember what it means to feel safe.
But ghosts like me don’t get happy endings.
We get hunted.
And I just brought the danger straight to his door.
This wasn’t supposed to happen.
I wasn’t supposed to fall for him.
But the more he touches me, the more he sees me—the more I wonder…
What if the life I was running from
wasn’t nearly as terrifying
as the chance to stay?
I never planned to fall in love.
But love has a way of pulling you out of the shadows.
Even when it burns.
