Rope and Regret (Paradise MC #2)

He confessed before she ever had to ask. Now he has to prove it wasn’t just guilt talking.

Cal Bramwell built everything he has with his own two hands — the shop, the patch he’s six weeks from earning, a life nobody handed either of us.

I thought that included me.

Then his ex — three years together, before me — resurfaces grieving her father, and Cal decides being decent to her doesn’t count as anything — not the calls, not the coffee, not the one kiss he swears meant nothing and confesses before I ever catch him.

Nobody caught him. That’s what makes it worse.

Now his patch vote hangs in the balance, my trust is in pieces, and the whole club is about to decide, out loud, in front of everyone, whether Cal Bramwell is really the man he’s spent nine years building himself into — or just another guy who was good with his hands and nothing else.

I told him I need to see it, not just hear it.

He’s about to find out exactly what that costs.