One Night with the Biker: Royal Bastards MC: Kansas City, KS

Six months of grief has turned one of the Royal Bastards MC's fiercest riders into a ghost of himself, and his brothers have finally had enough.

When his club brothers push him into a blind date, he agrees just to get them off his back. Ainsley Valois is supposed to be nothing—a name, a favor, a box to check. He doesn't want to feel anything. He doesn't plan to. But from the moment she looks at him like she sees straight through the leather and the loss, something long-buried claws its way back to the surface. One drink becomes two, two becomes a night neither of them can pretend didn't matter.

Then morning arrives with the cruelest kind of clarity.

A photograph. A frame. The words *Best Big Brother*—and the face of Roman Mac staring back at him.

Ainsley isn't just any woman. She's the little sister of the man whose world collides dangerously with his own, a connection that makes everything they shared the night before not just complicated, but forbidden in ways that could shake the entire club.

Now he's caught between loyalty and longing, between the code he's lived by and the woman who made him feel alive for the first time since Trinity's death. Walking away is the smart play. The safe play.

But in the Royal Bastards MC, nothing about love has ever been safe.