When Tessa's ex escalates from threats to showing up at her door, her father calls the only man he trusts completely.Reid Lawson is forty-four, controlled, and dangerously protective. He moves her into his secure house the same night and lays down rules she is not allowed to break.She is not to leave the property. She is not to answer the door. She is not to hurt herself in any way.Every evening he checks her body for new marks with careful, lingering hands.The tension between them builds fast. One small injury and a late-night body check is all it takes for the line to snap.Reid does not do casual. He never has.Once Tessa belongs to him, he has no intention of letting her go.And when she finally tells him she wants to stay and call him Daddy for real, he makes sure the entire world knows she is his to protect.