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Chapter 7
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The Captain and her Younger Biker Chapter 8
Chapter 8 Rory The second message came four days later, and this time it wasn’t just a photo. It was a photo and a single line of text underneath it, no name, no number I recognized, just six words that turned my stomach to ice the second I read them standing alone on the dock at six in the morning. Keep them apart, or everyone sees this.I called Talia before I’d even fully processed what I was reading, and she was at the dock in under ten minutes, hair still damp from a shower she clearly hadn’t finished, taking the phone out of my shaking hands to read it herself.“Okay,” she said, and I could hear her working hard to keep her voice level for my sake. “Okay. This isn’t random anymore. This is somebody who wants something specific.”“Keep them apart. Keep who apart. Me and Kian?”“Has to be. Nothing else about this makes sense.” She handed the phone back, arms crossed, jaw set in the particular way that meant she’d already started building a suspect list in her head. “I need to as
The Captain and her Younger Biker Chapter 7
Chapter 7 Rory Marcus started showing up more than any investor had a right to, always with some excuse ready in his back pocket, a question about the salvage schedule, a request for a dock tour, a reason to linger at the marina right around the time my crew was wrapping up for the day. By the end of that first week I’d started timing my breaks around avoiding him entirely, and by the second week I’d stopped bothering, because avoiding Marcus Holt apparently took more energy than just enduring him.“He’s not subtle,” Talia said, watching him from the wheelhouse window as he chatted up one of my deckhands down on the dock, clearly fishing for information about my schedule. “I give him credit for persistence, if nothing else.”“Persistence isn’t a compliment when it’s aimed at me.”“No, but it’s definitely aimed at you. I don’t think that man has asked one single relevant investor question since he got here.”I didn’t disagree. Marcus had a way of turning every conversation back towar
The Captain and her Younger Biker Chapter 6
Chapter 7 Rory Kian didn’t answer his phone for two full days, and I spent most of that time telling myself it was fine, that we weren’t anything to each other worth chasing after, that a man storming out of a doorway over a conversation he’d misread had nothing to do with me and everything to do with whatever complicated mess existed between him and his brother. I told myself a lot of things over those two days. Most of them were lies. The knock on my office door came on the third morning, and when I opened it he was standing there in his leather jacket, hair damp from the ride over, looking like a man who’d argued with himself the entire drive about whether or not to turn around. “You came back,” I said. “I never really left. I’ve just been avoiding you very badly for two days.” “That’s the same thing as leaving.” “It’s not, actually, because leaving would mean I stopped thinking about it, and I definitely haven’t stopped thinking about it.” He stepped past me into the off
The Captain and her Younger Biker Chapter 5
Chapter 5 Rory I didn’t sleep that night either, and I was starting to think sleep just wasn’t going to be a thing that happened to me anymore for as long as this contract lasted. I sat at my kitchen table with my phone face down in front of me like it was something that might bite, the photo still sitting there in my messages, unread by nobody but me, and I kept picking it back up every twenty minutes just to stare at it again like staring harder would somehow make it less real. Talia showed up at seven with two coffees and a look on her face that told me she already knew something was wrong before I said a single word. “You didn’t answer my texts,” she said, setting one cup down in front of me. “Which means either you were asleep, which I don’t believe for a second, or something happened.” “Something happened.” I turned the phone around and slid it across the table. I watched her face change as she looked at it, watched the exact moment she understood what she was looking at an
The Captain and her Younger Biker Chapter 4
Chapter 4 Rory “Rory,” Damian said again, and even through the static he sounded exactly the way I remembered, controlled, clipped, like every word had been weighed before it left his mouth. “I need you to explain to me why my brother authorized an unscheduled dive last night without running it through legal first.”“Good morning to you too, Damian.”“I’m not interested in pleasantries. I’m interested in why there’s an incident report on my desk with your company’s name on it and my brother’s signature underneath a decision that could have gotten someone killed.”I opened my mouth to answer, already bracing for the fight, and that’s when I heard the cabin door behind me, boots on the deck, and I turned around to find Kian standing in the doorway with his hair still damp from a shower, a mug of coffee halfway to his mouth, frozen completely still the second he heard his brother’s voice filling the small space between us.He heard it. All of it. The clipped tone, the way Damian said m
The Captain and her Younger Biker Chapter 3
Chapter 3 Rory Three weeks into the job and I still had not learned how to keep Kian Ashcroft on the deck where he belonged. The night dive was supposed to be simple. Drop, hook the last two crates, come up. Then a support line snapped somewhere above us and the debris field started folding in on itself like a fist closing, and I heard him grunt once through the comm before the whole mess shifted and I lost sight of his light. I went after him without thinking about clearance or protocol or the fact that Talia was going to murder me when we got back. I found him pinned at the shoulder by a bent strut, kicking hard, and I got both hands in the front of his wetsuit and hauled until something gave and we went tumbling up through black water that did not care if we made it. I should have shoved him off. I had shoved men off for less. My hands came up to his chest instead and stayed there, fingers curled in the zipper of his wetsuit, and neither of us moved away. The boat rolled un
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