ROYAL SAVAGE I CAN’T CLOSE MY EYES… I refuse to. Every time I do, all I see is blood, death, and pain. I can feel it - almost taste it, bringing me back to that night. It doesn't matter that I'm still breathing; I no longer need it, I no longer want it. I despise it along with everything else around me. The only thing I long for is to fucking fade away. I've given up. Until her at least… AVALON. She comes into my world, knocking me on my ass. It turns me on to have her around me. Makes me want to wrap my hand around her tight little throat and fuck her until she feels my pain, feels the monster in me, but also makes me want to protect her from the very thing that she should be afraid of... me. Once she sees the damage that I’m capable of; she’ll look at me like everyone else around me does: with fear. AVALON KNIGHT HIS EYES... THE DARKNESS IN them draws me to him, making me want to taste him, feel him… and save him. I shouldn't have gotten on the back of his motorcycle that day. I know that now. Colton warned me. I was told it was dangerous. I was told that nothing would be the same. He was right. ROYAL is dangerous, dark, and seductive; the very thing that keeps me hanging on, willing to give my last breath just to touch him… breathe him in. He’s savage, inked, and highly captivating. So different from his brother… He's hazardous to my health, mind, and body, yet the only thing that I crave. I want to free him. I want to change his mind, but I'm afraid that he’s already too faded…

JAXON KADE I can’t breathe… I don’t want to. With every breath that fills my lungs, I feel the pain she’s been fighting and it’s killing me slowly, reminding me of the day she got ripped away. I’ve gone thirteen years without her, and as if she was never gone, she walks back into my life, feisty as hell, and set on running from me. I refuse to let that happen. She’s my Lex. It doesn’t matter if I have to destroy everything in my path that leads to her—I will. I’ve been in love with her since the age of nine. I lost her once, and you better damn well believe that I will walk through the fires of Hell before losing her again. She’s broken… Ripped apart by the fucking world. I’m making it my mission to piece her back together again and claim her as mine. Every part of her sexy body has been possessed by me. I know she sees she’s not the only one who has changed with time. I’m rough, demanding, and just as damaged as she is. But there’s one thing I’m capable of—always have been—and that is loving her. I promise to do everything in my power to show her, no matter what it takes or how much it hurts. ALEXANDRA ADAMS I never thought I’d lay eyes on Jax Kade again, and the moment I realized the rough, edgy man I allowed to take me home and rough-fuck me was him… my world came crashing down around me. I’m no good for him. Not for the sweet, protective Jax that took care of me back when no one else would. I’m damaged, unrepairable… I need medicine to escape this reality—the pills, cocaine, and liquor aren’t even enough to numb the pain of my past. Years without Jax destroyed me—ruined me forever—and being back in his life will only ruin him the same. I could never do that to my beautiful Jax. I never meant to find him, and I sure as hell never meant to want him again as much as I did before we were ripped apart. It doesn’t matter that I need to stay away from him. It doesn’t matter that I fight to keep my distance. Jax refuses to let me go. He doesn’t care how fucked up I am. My biggest fear is destroying the only person I’ve ever been capable of loving, but he’s not giving me any other choice…