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Lila didn't take long to decide. She got up and followed Lucas quickly out to the parking lot.
Dawn was already lighting up the sky, and morning wasn't far behind it. Lucas led Lila straight to the van and unlocked it. He threw the bag into the van, along with some tanks of spare gas, and then hopped into the driver’s seat. As soon as Lila had strapped herself next to him, Lucas floored the gas pedal and sped out onto the road, leaving the Iron Sons far behind.
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Silence reigned for the longest time before Lila finally sought answers.
"Why are you doing this?" Lila demanded.
"I don't know what it is about you," Lucas tried to explain, "but I don't want to see you traded back to the Red Angels or kept locked in that dungeon."
"You suddenly grew a conscience and turned on your MC?" Lila asked incredulously.
"I know what it's like to be a pawn of the club, giving up an ordinary life for the sake of the club even when it keeps you from the things you want. The difference is I chose to be a pawn, but you obviously didn't. And that's probably why you ran away."
Lila didn't respond. Lucas, the man she'd slept with once, even though she hardly knew him, had hit the nail on the head.
"I just want a normal life," Lila said softly. She could hardly believe it was possible.
"And now you have the chance to live one," Lucas replied.
"So we just stay on the road, on the run like Bonnie and Clyde?" Lila asked.
"It's better than being a prisoner for the rest of your life, isn't it?"
Lila still felt overwhelmed by the events of the last twelve hours. But Lucas had just given her a chance, a real chance, to be free. As she thought about everything that had led up to this point, she felt herself drawn to him more strongly than before—and not just sexually. Slowly, Lila leaned over until her head was resting on Lucas's shoulder and closed her eyes.
"Much better," she whispered.
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Abigail never thought almost dying would turn one's life upside down quite so much, but her recent near-death experience is showing her just that.Pulled out of a house fire by her attractive but reclusive new werebear neighbor Ethan, Abigail Carter is determined to show her appreciation. But Ethan proves to be a reclusive hermit and he all but kicks her off his property when she tries to approach him.
Asking around, she discovers that Ethan's wife and children perished in a fire several years before and he blames himself. His self-imposed exile has cut himself off from the rest of the world and Abigail determines to change it.
Little by little she tries to reach out to him but by the time she realizes she's fallen head over heels it might be too late to re-think her strategy.
They say shifters only love once. Is Abigail brave enough to test this theory?
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Nolan Pierce isn't the type to sit back and take it easy.
After taking the heat for some of the clubs more violent activities, the boys of Satan’s Soldiers MC have pulled him off the street, putting him to work at one of the clubs fronts, a semi-legitimate car and bike shop. Nolan liked getting his hands dirty--just not with grease--and not being out with the boys doing the jobs that got his blood pumping was driving him crazy.
Kristina Evans is tired of being taken advantage of
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Growing up in a small town, and being known as a pushover has gotten Kris into her fair share of trouble. Deciding to reinvent herself, she takes off on a road trip, making her way across the country while searching for her inner strength. When her car breaks down in a tiny town where the only garage is a seedy-looking place run by an especially surly biker, she decides to try out the “new Kris.”
One look at the girl-next-door throwing attitude in his shop, and Nolan decided to have some fun
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Stuck in town for four days waiting for a part, Kris can’t get away from the dangerously sexy man who seems to follow her everywhere, and, taking “New Kris” for a spin, she decides to seduce him, and use someone else for a change. But when four days turns into a week, then two, and the sex is the best that Kris has ever had, the lines start to blur. If they can let go of the games, they just might find the one thing they've ever wanted.