Chapter 1

Chapter 1Rory I had a rule. Never jump into black water during an active storm unless someone’s life depended on it, because in the dark you can’t tell the difference between a rescue and a suicide until it’s already too late to change your mind. I broke that rule the second I saw the kid clinging to the rail of the sinking cargo ship, screaming a name that wasn’t even his own, like grief had already started rehearsing before the ship had finished going down.“Rory, don’t you dare,” Talia yelled behind me, grabbing at my arm, but I was already out of my jacket and over the side before she finished the sentence, because that’s how it always went between us. She yelled the warning. I ignored it. We both knew the script by heart.I swam toward the sound of the kid’s screaming instead of his shape, because sound traveled better than sight out there, and I’d learned that lesson the hard way, on a night I don’t talk about.I got a fist around his life vest and started hauling him back to

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Chapter 2

Chapter 2 Rory I didn’t sleep. I sat in my office above the dock with a mug of coffee going cold in my hands and stared at the same four words on my laptop screen for two hours straight, Ashcroft Holdings, primary account, until the letters stopped meaning anything at all and just looked like a threat someone had typed out in polite corporate font. By six in the morning I’d made up my mind. I was going to walk into that building, tell whoever was sitting behind the CEO’s desk exactly where they could put their contract, and go back to running my company the way I’d run it for the last ten years, without a single Ashcroft anywhere near it.Talia tried to stop me at the door. “You said you’d sleep on it,” she said, arms crossed, blocking the exit like her five foot four frame was actually going to hold me back from anything.“I did sleep on it. For zero hours. That counts.”“Rory.”“I’m not doing this again, Talia. I built this company so I would never have to sit in a room with that

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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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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

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All Chapters of The Captain and her Younger Biker: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4