It’s been a very long time since I’ve been with a woman. By choice. Even as my brother and my fellow cops have paired off and started families, I’ve focused on policing Crescent Cove. It’s a good small town filled with great businesses, wonderful families, and babies. Many, many babies. But I’m not about that life. Until we hire a new dispatcher after Bonnie retires. She’s younger than I am. Beautiful. The sunshine to the worst of my grumpiness. Hooking up with her is off-limits. I shouldn’t do it. And yet how am I supposed to resist the first woman who’s made me want to…well…not be so much of a d!ck? She doesn’t know about my past. But now she and the baby she’s carrying are my future… Author Note: Stern cop Christian Masterson doesn’t just bend the rules, he sets them on fire. Protector Daddy is a standalone accidental pregnancy romantic comedy with a happily-ever-after ending and no cliffhanger.