DOC

Mercury Silva had been surviving hell since the day she was born. A mother who, on her best days, was nothing more than a drug-dealing prostitute. A father who was never more than a shadow of a sperm donor. She survived being shot at, blown up, and even prison.

For six years she drifted from town to town, never stopping long, searching for the place her soul could finally settle. She found it in a small seaside town called Lampsing, California. Or maybe, she found him. Doc.

But wanting Mercury in his life and actually letting her in were two very different things. Doc knew better. He’d walked that road before—loved hard, lost harder—and the scars still cut deep. A full-time relationship wasn’t in his wheelhouse. One-night stands? That was safe. That was enough. He didn’t need some sharp-tongued, blue-eyed blonde blowing holes in his carefully ordered world.

Until she did.

One night, in the middle of a multi-club meeting, Mercury became his responsibility. Not because of fate. Not because she asked. But because Doc couldn’t stomach the thought of another man’s hands on her—and because, in front of a barroom full of hardened bikers, he opened his mouth and claimed her as his old lady.