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I grin at her.

“God, I love you, Sweets.”

“I love you more, Bryson.” She says, leaning across the console and sealing her lips with mine.

I know that another baby will be a big adjustment. We got lucky and Naia loves the kids just as much as they love her. I know that Roland will have to get used to a younger brother or sister but he’s so good with our friends’ kids that I’m not too worried. No matter what, I know that as long as I have Bianca by my side, I’ll be able to get through anything.

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MINE TO PROTECT

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He would do anything to keep her safe.

Aaron has had his eye on his little next door neighbor for months.

He's close to twice her age though, so he's been holding himself back from claiming her.

That hasn't stopped him from watching over her and making sure that she's safe.

When he finds out that someone else is trying to take her from him, he decides that it's time to step up and let the world know that she belongs to him.

He's going to stake his claim and show that Annalise is his to protect.

*Warning! This book alpha is over-the-top, head over heels in love with his girl. If you're looking for a steamy insta-love story then this book is for you!

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AARON

The feeling of the bed dipping slightly wakes me up. I smile to myself, already knowing who it is. Annalise. She moved in next door to me about nine months ago when her mom got remarried. From what I heard it was a quick courtship and it wasn’t long after the marriage license was signed that her mother passed away. A heart attack one night and she was gone leaving behind a daughter and husband and one hell of a mess.

The first time I saw her she was walking down her driveway with her head down. She was kicking a loose rock while she walked. She had the hood of her sweatshirt up so I couldn’t see much of her face but there was just something about her that made me want to take a second look. I stopped walking and just watched her, hoping that she would look up at me.

My patience was rewarded a few minutes later when she stopped and glanced up at me. Maybe she felt my eyes on her or maybe it was just fate. She was gorgeous. Light blonde hair flowing above her shoulders and framing her face with big blue eyes that seem to take up most of her face.

She stared back at me and something inside me shifted and seemed to just click. I had never felt this kind of connection with anyone before and I needed to see where it would lead. As I went to take a step towards her though, a woman opened the door and yelled for her to come inside. I learned two things that day. That her name was Annalise and that she was mine.

I spent the next two months trying to get close to her. I would wait for her to come home from school and when she would start to walk down the driveway I would smile and wave at her. After a couple of weeks of this, we managed to work up to actually stopping and talking for a few minutes.

I can still remember the day that she sought me out and it will always make me feel ten feet tall. It was about three months in and she hadn’t had school that day, some teachers in-service school day, so she had come over to my house. We had sat on the back patio and talked for hours and it is still the best day of my life. The more time that I spend with her, the more I fall in love with her. She’s so sweet and smart and beautiful and she deserves someone better than me but I’m selfish and I know that I can take care of her. I will always protect her.

The first time she came to my house in the middle of the night I had let her in and tried to get her to tell me what was wrong but she wouldn’t say. I put her up in my guest room and when I woke the next morning, she had made me pancakes and left them on the counter for me but she was gone.

Two days later I woke up to another knock on my door in the middle of the night and she had finally told me what was wrong. I had given her a key that same night and she started to sneak over and sleep at my house a couple of times a week. Annalise has been sneaking into my house now for about six months. It had been getting more and more common in the last couple of weeks to the point that she was here every night.

She had started sleeping in my bed about a month prior. Having her so close and being able to wake up with her wrapped around me has been the sweetest torture but I already know that I will never ask her to stop.

Tonight must be another bad night. My smile fades as I think about why she’s sneaking into my bed at midnight. Her new stepfather, Conrad Walker, likes them young as evidenced by the twenty-one-year age difference between him and his new wife but it seems that he may like them even younger. He’s been trying to get into my Annalise’s panties for months now. She’s mine though and he will never get to put his hands on her. In a week she will turn eighteen and I will make her mine in every sense of the word. She is mine and I will do anything to keep her safe. She is mine to protect.

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ANNALISE

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