A twenty-four-year-old bartender. Her fifty-two-year-old boss. Five months of watching each other across a small-town bar — and one night in his cabin that burns every careful line they drew.
Tess has spent her whole life making things easy for men who didn't deserve it. Then Cal Brewer put a man on the floor for touching her, threw her over his shoulder, and brought her home.
Cal held lines against wildfires for twenty years. He held the line against wanting her for five months — going home hard every night, telling himself she's too young, she's his employee, she deserves better. He held it until she touched herself in his bed, in his shirt, and the walls were too thin to pretend he didn't hear.
Now the man who wouldn't look at her twice is looking at her like he'll never stop. He talks filthy. He takes his time. He knows exactly what a man his age gives that boys never learned to. And Tess isn't making things easy anymore — she's making him break every rule he set for himself.
A grumpy protector who falls hard, a woman done being careful, and a night that proves twenty-eight years between them means he knows exactly how to take her apart. HFN.
Tropes: age gap · boss/employee · grumpy sunshine · protective hero · small town romance · dirty talk · forced proximity · possessive alpha
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