Cheating and Betrayal Second Chance Romance Motorcycle Club - The Riders Regret #968133

She came to his clubhouse with his mother's pasta and left with nothing but the sound of her own heart breaking.
Vera Gibbs rebuilt herself once before — at seventeen, when her parents tore her away from Theo Burke and told her it was for her own good. She believed them. She moved forward. She became someone who did not need anyone, who measured rooms for a living and kept her own life immaculately ordered.
Then Theo walked back into it.
Same dark eyes. Same silence. Same pull she had spent fifteen years trying to forget.
This time she chose him with her eyes wide open. This time she let herself stop bracing. This time she cooked his mother's recipe and drove to his clubhouse to surprise him — and found him with someone else.
It's just a club girl. Said without guilt. Said like fact. Said like she was supposed to understand.
She understood perfectly. She just refused to live inside it.
What follows is not a love story about forgiveness coming easily. It is about a man who must dismantle everything he thought he knew about himself before he earns the right to stand in her doorway again. It is about a woman who spent months guarding a secret that nearly got them both killed — a professional hitman, a corrupt official, a threat she managed alone because she did not believe he would choose her over the club.
And it is about the moment Theo Burke took three bullets in a hallway without hesitation — not to win her back, but because there was never any other option.
Recovery. Reckoning. A father who refused to operate. A mother who recognized a stranger's face from a parking garage a year ago.
Some things cost everything.
Some things are worth it.
The Rider's Regret — because some men only understand what they had when it is already on the floor.