The Grumpy Landlord

He's my best friend's grumpy brother, my new landlord, and the one man I'm strictly forbidden to touch. Ethan Rourke is a surgeon with a God complex and a house like a museum. Cold. Sterile. Terrifyingly orderly. I'm a chaotic artist with a cat who thinks prize roses are chew toys. When I got evicted, he offered me his guest house. Big mistake. Now I'm living fifty feet away from the most brooding, damaged, insanely hot man in town.
He wants silence. I bring noise. He has strict rules about "boundaries" and "quiet hours."I have a bad habit of breaking them. We are fire and ice. We shouldn't work. But when a late-night argument turns into him pinning me against a wall covered in paint.I realize the ice is just a shield. And the fire is going to consume us both. He thinks he's too broken to love. He says I'm just a temporary mess he has to clean up.
But the way he holds me in the dark tells a different story. I'm ready to paint a future with him. If only he doesn't scrub me out of his life first.