Bulkhead's Obsession

She built her dream from nothing. He'd tear the world apart to keep it standing. Ivy Marchetti didn't escape a soul-crushing corporate career to lose her bakery to men in expensive suits. When enforcers start threatening her lease and destroying her property, she does what she's done every day for four years—shows up at 3 AM, makes her bread, and refuses to break. She doesn't need rescuing. She needs someone who understands what it costs to build something worth keeping. Bulkhead doesn't talk much. The former Navy Seabee learned that buildings are more honest than words—they either stand or they fall. He's spent ten years with Battle Born MC, constructing walls for the brothers who became his family. But when he walks into a bakery under siege and meets a woman with flour on her apron and steel in her spine, something shifts. She's in his territory. Her building is falling apart. And he doesn't let things fall apart. Not anymore. What starts as protection becomes obsession. Every wall he reinforces, every door he repairs, every structure he builds to keep her safe—it's all for her. And Ivy is starting to realize that this quiet man speaks volumes in sawdust and blueprints. But the crime family that wants her building won't stop at threats. And Bulkhead won't stop until every last one of them learns what happens when you try to tear down what's his.