Elizabeth Darley is a gorgeous accountant living a sedate life of numbers and going home alone. She's always liked it that way. But one day she becomes attracted to Kurt Landan, her ex-Navy SEAL neighbor. He is handsome and seems nice. She just has no idea how to approach him.

Then trouble at work turns into a dangerous, life threatening ordeal and she goes to Kurt for help. She discovers that this strong, handsome man has an incredible, horrifying secret. She has no choice but to accept his bizarre existence because she has no one else she can go too.

A sexual encounter with him risks complicating matters, but then the trouble she is running from catches up to her. She is completely out of her depth yet has no choice but to place herself under the Protection of the Wolf.

*** Standalone short story, no cliffhangers. ***