Forbidden Protector

I was the forbidden fruit she left to rot in a six-by-eight cell.

Now I’m her only option—and one kiss away from forgetting why I ever let go.

She disappeared the second they slapped cuffs on me.
Now she’s back—same eyes, same curves.
My body remembers.

Every. Single. Forbidden. Inch…

Somehow, she’s sold me on the world’s worst
Helping fix up her daddy’s house.

My plan? Stay distant.
Keep my hands—and my heart—to myself.

But now we’re knee-deep in sawdust and stolen glances.
And it only takes a spark to set us both on fire.

She says she never stopped loving me.
That she wanted to defend me..
That her father threatened to make my life inside worse if she did.

I want to hate her.
Hell, I should.

But then she kisses me like I’m still hers…
And I let her take me apart all over again.

Just one more time. That’s what I tell myself.
Until she drops the most unforgivable secret of all.

She didn’t just walk away.
She had my son.