So what if he was facing a major career change? Big whoop. He was about to share a sock drawer! Now that was astonishing. He, Cooper Dayton, an anxious, grumpy, unsociable mess was cohabitating with—late surprise here, folks—someone almost as much a mess as he was. Well, that sounded just fine to him. As it turned out, he was just as hard and prickly as he needed to be to shelter the sweet, vulnerable, deceptively soft man he’d fallen in love with.