Knight With Benefits (Hell’s Knights MC #3)

Prelude

Gwyn

T he pain was there, at first.

The burning, desperate, life-altering pain, ripping my chest wide open.

The kind of pain that made you want to let go of everything, because nothing could be worth living through it.

But then the relief swooped in and extinguished the flames. Buffered that hole that had been ripped in my heart. The hole I realized was much smaller than it had seemed, once I was able to take a step back and suck in the first breath of freedom I’d had in years. The hole released the infection that had been building for so long.

He was gone.

My alpha, my mate, the man I had come to hate just as much as the bond forced me to need, was gone .

Tension and worries I’d carried for more than half my life slipped away, and suddenly there was light in the dark.

Hope .

I could finally have the life I’d dreamed about. I could escape the Purists and their increasingly flagrant disregard of life. I could start over and be an example to my boys and prove I was more than just an omega.

But hope was a dangerous thing. It gave others something to take away. Something to use to get their way. With nothing to lose I hadn’t cared what was done to me, but now…

Now I had something to fight for.