Blake POV:
Dean's daughter incarnate, before me. Dean Levi. A man I had once looked up to—the man who once saved my father's life. I had even considered him a mentor. That brought back painful memories of losing my own father not so long ago. Those two had been close, and now to find out that Dean was gone as well?
How did Avery Levi end up in my hands?
I was still angry with what she had implied at my bar. Avery had absolutely no idea what she was agreeing to when she asked for my protection. She had no clue about the true loyalty that resided in every one of my men. I would die for any one of my men, and they would do the same. We were a family—more than that. We were brothers, closer than blood relatives.
Avery was not from my world, but I had to let that go. Her father had been p
