OK, well. If he were being totally honest, his role in the MC back then had given him pause about being in a committed relationship.
He hadn’t felt good thinking about being the Road Devils body-man, picking up the dead and ferrying them all over the country to get rid of the evidence, then going home to a sweet, loving woman. He’d been afraid that he would bring some of that ugliness back with him, that it would just cling to him like dirt under his shoes. He was convinced that he’d contaminate his woman’s innocence and poison the relationship, and he didn’t want to do that to someone.
When Wolf had taken the club legit a few years before, Viking had been thrilled, mostly because he was finding it harder and harder to deal with the dead. As a doctor, he’d always stood with one foot in
