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As Zach closed the distance between theasped and rushed forward “What the hell happened to your hands?” She lifted one large hand and stared in horror at the ravaged knuckles The skin reserinder

“Picked the wrong opponent” His voice was so flat, so dead, a prickle of fear coasted up her spine This was a“Way too tall and hard for me to beat”

Her face screwed up and she looked to Rocket What on earth was Zach talking about?

“Tree,” was all he said

A tree? Zach had attacked a tree? In all the time she spent with him, she’d never seen him lose his cool Sure, he was the enforcer for an MC, so she ell aware he had a capacity for violence, but she always i a tree until he decimated his knuckles was an act based purely on out of control emotion

Whatever happened that day had devastated hiive that to him She could put her reservations about ht to care for him

“Come on inside,” she said

He stared at her for a ed toward the house

With a heavy heart, Toni gave Rocket a sad s him here”

He scratched at the dark stubble covering his square jaw “Take good care of entle with him”

His entle as she doctored his wounds, but she wasn’t in the mood to decipher riddles As it was, those were ether in the two times she’d met him

“Will do”

Without further discussion, he returned to his bike and followed the car down the drive The second bikerZach’s bike because he deposited the er’s seat of the car Probably not the easiest to ride aapart