Hard Sin by Sybil Bartel

Author:Sybil Bartel [Bartel, Sybil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Alpha Antihero Series, Book Three
Publisher: Sybil Bartel
Published: 2020-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

I needed to clear my head, and riding was my salvation, but it was always a catch twenty-two. I couldn’t ride without thinking of my woman.

All those years ago on that dirt road in an orange orchard in the middle of nowhere, she’d trusted me not to wreck the only form of transportation we’d had. As I shifted through the gears, I could almost feel her hands on my leg seven years ago, showing me what to do.

She’d been patient with me. More patient than I’d deserved. She’d also been a spitfire, but she’d been my angel.

And fuck, she’d ridden so goddamn carefree. I could still see her hair blowing behind her and the smile on her face when she’d had a bike between her legs. She’d looked so damn happy. Simple shit had always brought her joy.

I wished for the millionth time that I hadn’t thrown away my time with her. I’d been so focused on getting in the Rangers and learning skills I thought would help me take down River Stephens that I’d been fucking blind to life.

There wasn’t a single thing I’d learned in training or experienced downrange that led to River Stephens’s death. I knew a hundred ways to kill a man with my bare hands, and yet the one thing, one goddamn thing, I’d neglected to take into consideration wound up being the fucking catalyst that brought River Stephens down.

Teamwork.

Except I wasn’t a part of any team. I wasn’t a part of anything, not even when I was in the Rangers. I was a goddamn island in my head, and the only person who’d ever made me feel like I wasn’t, was dead.

It didn’t take a truckload of guns for sale to bring Stephens down. It’d taken headcount, a shitload of armed men and, all right, two bulletproof SUVs and one of Stephens’s own men to turn on him. But I’d been blind to the reality of the situation until the shit had hit the fan with Kendall, and all I’d had was headcount. The resulting shootout was a cluster fuck, but it got the job done, and Stephens was dead.

That left Hawkins.

I’d be a fool to ignore Luna’s offer of help.

Two and half years wasted working for Hawkins as I tried in vain to get my guns stateside, all the while I bought into the bullshit in my head. I’d thought all I’d needed to do while I worked on getting my guns into the country was take down his men one by one and fuck his club all to hell. Or get a moment alone with him so I could pull the trigger.

I never got that moment alone with Hawkins.

He was smart enough to know I’d kill him if he left himself that vulnerable.

Downshifting, I pulled into a familiar parking lot and coasted to a stop before cutting the engine. For a long moment, I stared at the darkened building with the “For Sale” sign out front that’d been the one place besides the Rangers that I could get lost in.

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