Chapter 1 Ava's Pov

The car died two miles after the last streetlight.One second, the engine was dragging me through the dark mountain road with a tired growl. The next, the steering wheel stiffened under my hands, the headlights flickered and the whole car rolled to a miserable stop by the side of the road.“No. No, no, no.” My voice cracked as I slammed both palms against the wheel. “Please. Please, not here.”The dashboard glowed once. Then went black. The silence that followed was worse than the noise.Outside, the mountain pressed close on both sides of the road, all tall pines and black shadows. Fog crawled low over the cracked asphalt. Somewhere far off, something metal creaked in the wind. A sign leaned crookedly near the ditch, its white paint peeling around the words:WELCOME TO GREYSTONEPOPULATION: 1,904Under it, someone had spray-painted in red:LEAVE WHILE YOU CAN.I stared at it for three full seconds.Then I laughed. It came out wrong. Thin. Shaky. Almost a sob.“Funny,” I whispered. “R

Last Updated : 2026-07-01

Chapter 2 Ava's Pov

No, he did not step out, I thought as I looked at the stranger with an open mouth.He appeared.It was as if the shadows had been holding him and finally decided to let him go.He was huge. Taller than every man in the room. Broad in a way that made the narrow space behind the bar look too small for him. His black shirt stretched across his chest and arms covered in tattoos that disappeared beneath the sleeves and climbed up the side of his neck. I saw sharp lines, numbers, shapes, symbols I could not understand.A scar cut through his left eyebrow and down toward his cheek.But it was his eyes that stopped me.They were grey. Cold. And fixed on the man blocking the door.The whole bar seemed to hold its breath around him.The bartender stopped wiping a glass. The pool cue lowered. The drunk man’s hand dropped from the door.“Cain,” Rafe said, trying for a laugh and missing. “I was just being friendly.”Cain said nothing. He only looked at him and Rafe took one step away from me. Then

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Chapter 3 Ava's Pov

“Nobody.”The lie left my mouth too quickly.I knew he heard it because his eyes sharpened like a blade being turned toward the light.“Nobody,” he repeated.I lifted my chin even though my throat felt tight. “That’s what I said.”The bar became too quiet.Even the jukebox seemed to have lost its courage. The low music still played from the corner but it sounded far away now, buried under the weight of every stare in the room.Cain stood in front of me, close enough that I could see the dark ink climbing from his wrist to his forearm. Thick lines. Strange shapes. A number half-hidden under the edge of his sleeve.His hands were at his sides, not touching me. Still, I felt trapped.“People who are running from nobody don’t look like that,” he said.I swallowed. “Like what?”His gaze moved over my face like he was reading a wound I had not shown him.“Like the door behind them is still open,” he said.My fingers tightened around the strap of my bag. “That sounds poetic. You write warnin

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Chapter 4 Ava's Pov

By morning, my hand hurt from holding the key.I had not slept at all. I had sat on the edge of the narrow bed in Room 4 with my boots still on, my bag beside me, and my eyes fixed on the bottom of the door until the shadows under it stopped moving.Once, close to dawn, I thought I heard someone breathing in the hallway.Or maybe that was me. Maybe fear had learned how to echo in my ears. When the first pale light slipped through the thin curtains, I stood too quickly and nearly fell. My knees buckled. I grabbed the dresser to steady myself, and the old wood groaned beneath my palm.“Get up,” I whispered to myself. “Leave.”That was the planSimple.Leave before Cain Harlow woke up.Leave before the men downstairs started looking at me like I was something marked.Leave before this town, this bar, this room with its locked door and old soap smell, began to feel like anything close to safe.Safe was dangerous.Safe made people careless.I splashed cold water on my face in the tiny bat

Last Updated : 2026-07-01

All Chapters of Claimed By The Ruthless Biker: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Chapter 1 Ava's Pov

Chapter 2 Ava's Pov

Chapter 3 Ava's Pov

Chapter 4 Ava's Pov