Breaking the Ice by Esme Taylor

Hettie:⠀⠀
I love a happy ever after, but I know I will not get one.
Romance is for other people and I’m just a supporting extra.
I made a pact with myself to avoid the opposite sex at all costs. I won’t let my heart be broken again.
It was working fine until I met him.
The Viking.
But it’s hard to ignore someone who’s built like a mountain, has icy eyes you can drown in, and keeps unexpectedly coming to my rescue.
My heart tells me to run, but my body has other ideas about what it wants to do with him.

Reid:
I don’t do relationships. They never get inside my house or in my bed.
I always make it clear that it’s a one-time deal, but they never believe me.
They think they will be the one to change me.
They’re always wrong.
Because what would they think if they saw my black soul and icy heart?
Now there’s her. In my house. I invited her in.
But she needed me. What else could I do?
I can do one night with her here, can’t I?
I just have to stay awake.