Cook’s Choice by Janice M. Whiteaker

Cook: All I want to do is have a life.
Build a business.
One that can take care of me and mine.
And Carly is mine. Mine to touch. Mine to taste.
Mine to protect.
Doesn’t matter whose blood runs through her veins.
But King’s after everything I have. Wants to take the first bit of happiness I’ve known.
Thinks it belongs to him.
It never did.
And it never will

Carly: I just wanted a chance to learn the truth.
Who I am. Where I came from.
I thought I found it.
Except a man with danger written all over his body wants to take that chance away. Keep me from learning the secrets shadowing my life.
Only Cook isn’t trying to take anything from me.
He’s trying to protect me. Save me from a kind of monster I didn’t know existed.
But I’m not what the monster wants. Not really.
Turns out we both have our eye on the same prize.
Cook.
And no one can have him but me.