Bound to the Biker Capo

Nessa Callahan runs dispatch for the Iron Fangs and knows every route on the coast by heart. When the president dies and Rafael Vasquez takes the seat, the old men deliver an arrangement: marry the rival founder's daughter to seal the truce. Nessa doesn't want the truce, the ring, or the man. Rafael doesn't want a wife who knows where the bodies are. They marry in a back office with two witnesses and an enemy watching from the parking lot. The marriage becomes a standoff of logistics — she moves the routes an hour earlier to prove a point, he moves them back. Then a warehouse burns, and the buyer behind it isn't either family. It's a cartel front, and it has been inside their marriage the whole time. The fuel stop. The trunk. Six brothers riding out with no plan. Nessa walks home with the traitor's gun and the traitor's knee, and keeps her chair at the table. She didn't want a husband. She got a partner with an engine.