He noticed her shoulder drop in week one. He waited nine weeks to say it. Kira Vasquez has been the Ashford pack's Enforcer for six years — precise, controlled, the undisputed authority in the training yard and everything beyond it. She built herself back from something hard seven years ago and came out of it with rules about what she lets in. The rules have worked. She is excellent at her job... moreHe noticed her shoulder drop in week one. He waited nine weeks to say it. Kira Vasquez has been the Ashford pack's Enforcer for six years — precise, controlled, the undisputed authority in the training yard and everything beyond it. She built herself back from something hard seven years ago and came out of it with rules about what she lets in. The rules have worked. She is excellent at her job. She is not, it turns out, excellent at a twenty-four-year-old exile who arrives at five-forty-five every morning, improves measurably every single session, and waits — with an infuriating and apparently limitless patience — for her to decide what to do about him. Felix Drummond came in with one bag and a provisional status the Alpha had already quietly removed. Two years of exile will do things to a person: teach them to make themselves small, to calculate every step, to read the room for when to get out of the way. What it didn't do was touch his instincts, which are better than he knows, or his capacity for the specific kind of patience that isn't passive — the kind that keeps showing up while someone else works out what they're deciding. He's going to fix every fence bracket the compound owns. He's going to learn her forms. He's going to run them in the old stand on Sunday mornings, loud enough that she can hear him from the training yard. She can hear him. She's always heard him. Between them: twelve weeks of five-forty-five sessions, a shoulder she's been compensating for since she was twenty-four, a greenhouse full of eastern root stock that needed better conditions to spread, and a summit that's about to put something she's been managing at a distance directly in her path. She built herself back alone. She's good at alone. He's better at staying. What You Fight For is a slow-burn wolf shifter romance featuring an enemies-to-lovers training yard dynamic, a found family who has been counting down since week four, explicit content, a heroine who corrects mid-scene and doesn't apologise for it, and a hero who files this information with great professional interest. Second in The Ashford Pack series. Can be read as a stand-alone. less
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