Eight Years Ago
The town hadn’t changed yet.
East Haven still looked like every other dusty backroad town—cracked pavement, peeling paint, and the constant roar of bikes in the background. It was the kind of place where you either left and never looked back or stayed and burned slow.
Dani hadn’t burned yet.
Back then, everything felt lighter. She was eighteen and untouchable in all the ways that mattered. Her brother Rico had just patched into the Steel Vultures, and Jax was already the storm in the background. But her world wasn’t them—not then.
Her world was Roman.
They were inseparable. Childhood best friends turned something more without even realizing when the shift happened. It wasn’t one kiss or one night—it was a slow slide into something deeper. Long drives with music too lo
