Out of Bets: A Dark Enemies to Lovers MC Romance (Knights of Lovelen Book #3)

The Little Bird

Innocence was never mine to keep.

I was raised to be perfect. Soft-spoken. Untouched. A doll on a shelf my father guarded like currency. Sneaking out of my gilded cage was supposed to be a borrowed night—lipstick, loud music, the illusion of freedom. Instead, it dropped me into Lovelen's dark underbelly and straight into the path of the most dangerous man I've ever met.

The Poisoner warned me to go back to being oblivious. He said the world beyond the cage would ruin me. But I didn't want to be preserved. Six months later, my best friend is gone, girls who look just like me are vanishing, and I finally understand what innocence costs in a city that feeds on it.

I didn't ask him to keep me safe. I asked him to help me break the cage.

The Poisoner

Some things are worth becoming a monster for.

I know what happens to pretty things that wander into my world. I am not a hero. I am not safe. I am the poison men fear and never see coming. So I warned her away, and she listened. Until she didn't. The girl who returns to me months later isn't fragile anymore. She's hunting. She comes with leverage, access, and a cold-blooded bargain that tells me she's far more dangerous than anyone knows.

What starts as a deal turns feral. I told her I don't know how to be gentle. I told her giving herself to me means surrendering the right to pretend the dark doesn't touch her. And then her father reminds me exactly why men like me exist.

Loving her could cost me everything. But if anyone thinks they can take her from me, I'll poison every breath they dare to take.