3 DAYS…
That was all he was going to give her, all he was going to allow himself.
3 Days to purge her from his system.
3 Days to teach her body how to come apart under his touch.
3 Days.

Then he’d walk away. He’d put her and everything she meant to him back in its box and tuck it away forever because a man with a dirty past and no future had no business with someone he would give his life to protect, even if he was protecting her from himself.