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too handsome for blood. It improved some men, added to the grizzled roughness that called them to the MC. Not for Luke. He was clean-cut and smart. Shining armor exchanged for a chrome bike, but it was all the same. Blood only reminded me of the war that stole too many friends and created far too many enemies.
    And ruined something between us that might have become fairy tale. 
    Luke rubbed the blood on his pants. “I never wanted you involved in this. Where’s a safe place I can take you?”
    I had no reason to doubt him, and every reason to refuse him. “Take me back to Sorceress.”
    “Lyn, I’m serious.”
    “They took the cash I counted for the deposit. I’d like to know how much I lost from this idiocy.”
    “You almost lost your life.”
    “And whose fault is that?”
    Luke stood well over six-foot, two hundred pounds of solid, unyielding muscle. It wasn’t his strength or the guns that made him the most dangerous man of all. He used his head. It got him into trouble, but Luke somehow earned more respect than he deserved. I tried to pretend it wasn’t his baby blues and soothing baritone that convinced me to behave.
    “If Blade Darnell is dead, we’re all in some serious shit,” he said.
    I shrugged. “We’ve been, or haven’t you noticed? Just because men aren’t dying in the street right now doesn’t mean we have peace .”
    “It’s gonna get a lot worse.”
    He didn’t know the half of it, and I wasn’t about to tell him. “It’s not my concern. None of this is my business. Don’t you forget that.”
    “What do you know about Blade?”
    “I know if I don’t get to my club in the next hour, Thorne is going to send his men across the river, and Temple will be the least of your worries.” I lowered my voice. “We’ve been through enough today. Don’t make it worse.”
    “I’m trying to protect you. You know you’re the only woman I—”
    Now I got on the bike. “It’s getting late. Let’s go.”
    “Lyn, I’m gonna need your help.”
    What was I supposed to say to that?
    He didn’t know what went down with Blade, and if we wanted to survive, if we wanted to keep the Valley in one piece, it had to stay that way.
    No matter what trap Temple set, no matter how many men they sent after us, we didn’t have a choice. I didn’t have a choice. Too many people needed my help, and nobody was bothering to think about the consequences. Secrets stayed secret, even if it was a murder or feelings I couldn’t reveal.
    Feelings I knew he felt too.
    “No one can help you now, Luke,” I said. “You knew the danger when you turned from Anathema. Don’t pretend a deal with Temple isn’t a deal with the devil. I won’t get dragged down with you. Not after what you did.”
    Luke set his jaw. The hard angles flexed in the dim light. His expression blended gallant tolerance with an outlaw’s aggression.
    “Let’s go.”
    I didn’t want to piss him off, but it happened. I hated his hardened glare. His eyes were too beautiful to waste on hatred and frustration and violence. I’d looked at him for so many years and saw only confidence and stability and integrity. How had everything gone so wrong?
    And why did it hurt so much to lose something I never had?
    I didn’t speak, and he wouldn’t have answered. He climbed onto the bike. The engines roared in the familiar rumble of danger and excitement. I sunk my fingers into his arms, hoping my nails pricked him, and wishing I hadn’t savored the chance to be close to him.
    Luke Halley was the worst decision I never made. He wasn’t the one who got away. I pushed him from my life before he crashed into it. I broke the heart I never gave to survive the wars he started and the lives he destroyed.
    I wasn’t his to save. He wasn’t mine to protect. We weren’t good for each other, but damn, he might have been my kind of challenge.
    If he was framed for Blade Darnell’s death, the truth would rend the entire Valley in anarchy. It wouldn’t be