Chapter 4 Chapter 6 Chapter 5 Save me? Pick between the two of us? I didn’t need saving. And I sure as hell wasn’t giving him the chance to play hero for her. I was going to haul her up myself and smash her little sob story to pieces. I gritted my teeth. One kick.

Chapter 3 Chapter 5 Chapter 4 Daryl didn’t answer. He simply ripped a heavy tactical Kevlar vest off the hook by the door and shoved it hard against my chest.  “I owe her parents a blood debt,” he said, his voice completely flat. But his knuckles were bone-white where he gripped the ripstop nylon edge.

Chapter 2 Chapter 4 Chapter 3 My right boot hadn’t even hit the concrete yet. Daryl let out a low, guttural grunt. His massive frame hunched forward, his knee slamming hard against the concrete floor of the garage. No one in the room dared to breathe. I stood over him, my chest heaving.  “That cut

Chapter 1 Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Up on the second-floor metal catwalk, Chloe pinched her nose, leaning back slightly as if my very existence was emitting toxic fumes.  Deep in the shadows of the dimly lit chop shop below stood Daryl. Broad-shouldered and built like a damn tank, his chiseled face was stone-cold, devoid of