nor
ly banked into the switchbacks of Dead Man's Ridge. Below us, the shee
lso a member of the Iron Bastards escort, constantly braking and accelerating; I thought he didn't know how
st to vent my anger. Damaris called this behavior "road rage." She sai
romantic legend that every girl
lso gone over a cli
ight through the rusted guardrail. I could imagine that terrifying fall-as the cab crumpled, Jax
ed, the femoral artery barely missed, bone splintering through denim. He didn't stop to set the bone. He tore his flannel shirt into strips, b
mountain air had plummeted below freezing. Clara was soaked, cyanotic, he
. He stripped off his soaked, blood-caked leather cut, discarded the remnants of
e life back into her failing pulse. His rough stubble scraped her temple as
, his sweat dripping onto her cold cheeks. When dawn finally broke through the rotting timber, Clara's br
. If it were me, I'd just put a bullet thr
y helmet cracking against Diesel's back armor with a
rmly on the gravel shoulder of the highway,
lded from twisted exhaust pipes and rusted chains
d over his shoulder, his boots skidding a
ched over ape-hanger handlebars. The man in front wore a sleeveless denim v
obnoxious, deafening crackle that
a stream of brown tobacco juice onto the tire of Diesel's bike
r knife strapped to his thigh, his
lder armor, leaning forward. "Stand down, Di
h a solid thud. I stared straight at the Prospect through my tint
ing through the idling engines like a blade.
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