We’d get this job done, and that would be it. I’d already let one woman past my barriers, and she had done a top notch job of wrecking me. It wasn’t going to happen again. Not even with the raven-haired goddess that made me want to be more than the rough brute everyone saw when they looked at me. Once upon a time, I was sure she’d seen beyond that exterior. Too bad I’d just ensured that was all she would ever see when she looked at me from now on.
