by Paula Cox
Dani was a firefighter who never thought she’d need a biker like me to save her.
I pulled her out of the fire, but now I can’t get her out of my head.
I know women like her.
She’s tough, but there’s no way she could ever hide her innocence.
I can see it in her eyes when she looks at me.
I can smell it in the air when she’s close.
She brings out the animal in me.
She makes me lose control.
She’s the match that lit the fire in me.
And nothing in the world can stop me from making her mine.
I WASN’T A HERO AND SHE DIDN’T ASK TO BE SAVED.
She's fought tooth and nail to survive.
I take what I want.
She didn't ask for a savior.
But she doesn’t know that I saved her for myself.
I f*ck and leave, simple and sweet. But when I saw her surrounded by those animals, something in me snapped.
Watching over some chick ain’t the kind of thing I do.
But Aimee was something else.
A spitfire with a body begging to be tamed, and a smart mouth I wouldn’t mind wrapped around me.
She knows I’m a monster.
But this monster’s her only chance of survival out here.
And I won’t stop until I make her MINE.
***
THIS JOB DIDN’T ASK ME TO TAKE HIS DAUGHTER, BUT THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I’LL DO.
I was supposed to kill the Don of our oldest rival crime family.
But that was before I got a glimpse of his daughter.
An untamable spitfire hiding under an innocent spoiled princess.
Once I saw her, I had a different plan in mind.
I plan to put her under me—night after night, again and again
Her father thought I was here to negotiate a truce between our crime families.
He had no idea I was sent to destroy them from the inside.
His innocent daughter was the only one who suspected me.
A princess who’s been sheltered from the world her father built.
One look at her, and the last thing I wanted was to keep her quiet.
I’ll finish this job, and then I’m taking her as a bonus.
She may try to uncover me for who I really am.
But not before I take her.
Strip her.
And leave her throat raw from screaming.
***
He left me broken and shattered.
I never thought he’d be back in my life.
I swore I wouldn’t give him a second look much less a second chance.
But that was before he came back like a whirlwind.
Not to sweep me off my feet, but to put me on my knees
JESSIE
It’s not every day that a ghost walks back into your life.
I did everything I could to put that horrible day out of my memory.
But with a single word, he brought it all back.
Brought it back and forced me to remember.
He tells me he’s back to right the wrongs of the past.
A second chance. A new start.
I should know better than to trust him.
After all… he broke my heart once already.
How can I be sure that he won’t do it again?
TEX
There was absolutely no way she should want me.
Hell, I wasn’t even sure if she still remembered me.
But I remember her.
There was no forgetting a girl like her.
She haunted my dreams for twenty years.
Left me hard more times than I can count.
I won’t pretend that I’ll fix the past and mend our wounds.
I won’t pretend that things won’t be worse before they get better.
But I nearly lost her once.
And now that she’s back in my life…
There was no way I’ll lose her again.
No way I’m ever letting her go.
Why bargain when I can buy her outright.
I’m a professional killer. Rescuing helpless women isn’t what I do. But when the daughter of my next target gets kidnapped and auctioned off, it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.
I’ll buy her and make her talk.
That was before I saw her. One look and I can’t tear my eyes away—can’t stop imagining her body pinned underneath mine.
One look and I know it’ll be impossible to keep my hands off her.
She thinks I’m here to save her.
She could not be more wrong.
I’m going to break my code. Then I’ll break her.
And show her what it means to be owned.
***
I was supposed to save his daughter, not keep her for myself.
When you kill for money, you know that your story probably doesn’t have a happy ending. But when I met Stella, I knew I might have a shot.
She’s everything I’m not… pure, innocent, and without a glimpse of how evil the world can be.
Her ex wanted her dead, her father wanted her safe.
Me?
I want her legs wrapped around me while she screams my name.
I want to save her so I can keep her for myself.
But all I did was put her in more danger.
Now I’m doing everything to keep her alive.
And when the dust settles, I’m going to make her mine…or die trying.
***
She was marked for someone else, but I’m taking her for myself.
I need a relationship like I need a bullet in the head—especially with a high-maintenance brat like Ana. The kind who’s got their head in the clouds instead of down here with the rest of us in the real world.
She thinks she can tell me what to do. She thinks she’s in charge.
I’ll tame her body, her mouth, her mind—and make her beg me for more.
One problem--her ex is a crazy bastard who thinks he can get her back by taking me out.
He thinks that I’ll give up what’s mine.
He couldn’t be more wrong.
***
I had every reason not to trust him
I should’ve known better than to let a brute like him into my life.
He turned my life upside down in the worst way possible: spread me open and took what he wanted—what I needed.
He wasn’t supposed to stay.
I wasn’t supposed to scream for more.
But when he holds me down and grinds his hard body into mine.
Makes me his possession and obsession.
Makes me forget who I am and what he is.
I can’t tell if this is all a dream come true.
Or if I’m trapped in living nightmare.
But as long as he’s by my side, I don’t ever want to wake up.