He was never supposed to touch her.

She came back to the city for one reckless night. One anonymous date. One chance to forget the only man she could never have.

Instead, the app matched her with him.

Talia Reed has spent her whole life feeling like too much and never enough?too curvy, too sick, too breakable. Growing up in foster care with chronic asthma taught her how to survive on scraps and keep her heart locked down tight. Coming home was supposed to be temporary. So was the dating app. She only wanted one night to bury an impossible crush and move on.

Then her match opens the door, and it's the man who once shared her childhood, protected her like family, and stayed just out of reach for years.

Nico Vega built himself into the kind of man nobody can hurt again. After surviving abuse as a boy, he gave up the future he wanted and became a bodyguard for men far more dangerous than he is. Talia was always the one line he never crossed?the girl he loved too much to ruin, the woman he never believed he deserved.

Now she's standing in front of him, all soft curves, sharp mouth, and old hunger, asking for one night he knows will destroy every rule he's ever lived by.

But one night is never enough.

Because someone is watching Talia. Danger is closing in. And once Nico finally touches what he has wanted for years, he realizes he'll do anything to keep her.