Lily Moreno lives for slow mornings, warm muffins, and her peaceful little café where everything smells like sugar and feels like safety. She's fought hard for her soft life - and she doesn't let anything violent, messy, or male inside her walls. Until the night a blood-soaked stranger steps out of a dark alley and into her world. Roman Kade is six foot five, made of rage and scars, and known in the underground fighting circuit as "The Bear." He doesn't do soft. He doesn't do safe. He doesn't do anything except fight, survive, and stay away from things he might break. But the first time he sees Lily - all curves, warmth, and attitude - he knows he's already too close. He doesn't belong in her world. She doesn't want anything to do with his. And yet... every time he shows up, he brings her a teddy bear. What starts as protection turns into obsession. What starts as tension turns into heat. What starts as a threat becomes the one thing they both can't live without. He was never supposed to touch her. She was never supposed to crave the monster. But some bruises feel better when you ask for them.