Bad Boys Don’t Stay by BB Easton

No getting attached.
Leave before you get left.
Supplies. Shelter. Self-defense.
Survival above all else.
I’ve lived my life by a strict set of rules—rules that have kept me alive, rules that have kept the nightmares of my past at bay. But the moment I met her, I crossed all of them out with a giant X and scrawled the words Protect Rainbow Williams next to them in murderous block letters. That’s all I cared about. Keeping her safe. Keeping her—period.
But Rain doesn’t need me to protect her anymore. The danger is still out there—it’s everywhere—but she has her little found family now, a roof over her head, food on the table … him.
And I have nobody to blame but myself.
In my world, rules aren’t made to be broken.
They’re made to keep you from breaking.
A mistake I won’t make again. Because without Rain, there won’t be anything left of me to break.

* Previously published under the title Fighting for Rain.