Forbidden Age Gap Outlaw Biker Romance - Old Enough To Break His Vow #985395

My father’s last act was making his best friend swear a vow over his deathbed: keep me out of this life, no matter what it costs.
Elias Vane — the man the club calls Cross — kept that promise for seven years.
He buried my dad in the Dead River plot at the edge of a New Mexico river that hasn’t run in forty years. He pressed a worn St. Christopher into my palm. And he let me walk away to become someone clean and safe and three states gone.
Now I’m twenty-five, I’m back, and that vow is the only thing standing between us.
Cross is forty-two. Gray coming into his beard, Sergeant-at-Arms, hands that have done things he won’t say out loud. He tells me he’s too old. He tells me I don’t know what this life takes from a woman. He tells me he made a promise to a dying man — and every time he says it, he’s standing a little closer to me than the last.
But my father didn’t die the way they told me he did.
I found what he left behind: a coordinate scratched into the back of that medal, pointing to a patch of desert no one in this club will drive me to. Somebody wearing my father’s colors sold him to the men who left him on a back road to die. Cross has spent seven years keeping me away from a truth that’s about to put us both in the ground.
And I still can’t tell which promise he’s really keeping — the one to protect me… or the one that ends with me buried beside my dad.
I know exactly how old he is.
I’m old enough to make him break every vow he ever made.