The road blurred as I drove with one destination in mind—Jeremy’s. I’d lied to my mother to borrow her car, saying I was heading to Carol’s.” Everything my mother had said was stuck in my head like a glue that could never leave. “It’s either Zayne or another Lord” Zayne had told me the same thing. If I didn’t obey the rules, my life would turn out like hers. She thought she could keep me safe and let me date whoever I wanted, but she came to realize that the world she was born into was bigger than her. It was their rules, her obedience. If I defied like she did, I would face the same consequence, and she would fail in their world. “Jeremy is going to test if Zayne is really worthy of you. He’s challenging him to a bike duel.” Nonsense. This one was my exact purpose for being on the

