Biker gangs known as regulators rule the streets of a war-torn city with hate and pain -- their cruelty is etched into every inch of Dae's battered body. He has never known anything but hurt from the hands of men ... until he meets Coby.<br><br>When the new regulator rides into town and takes an interest in him, Dae is unwilling to believe that anyone who is a regulator can be a gentle, caring lover.<br><br>Is Coby strong enough to protect Dae and his sister Delia when there's hell to pay in the form of McBane?

Scarred

Everything she loved about him, everything he was, that’swhat killed him—he would have done it all again, even if he knew he’d die in the first air raid, that’s just the way he was made. Still, it didn’t make the days any shorter or the nights any warmer, and most of the time her heart was a whirlwind of anger and sadness and love and hate that was too much for her to weather alone.


Delia’s a lot like her. I see it in the flash of her eyes, the set of her jaw. She loves me, I know she does, but she hates what I have to do to protect her, and when I come away wounded and bloody, it justifies the whirlwind inside her heart. As long as it breaks me, she can tell herself she hates the regulators and what they do to me, what they force me to do. But what if there’s a part of me that could likeit, if it wasn’t cruel and painful? What if there was someone I might actually enjoyit with, if given the chance?


Chapter 19