Every Last Reason

I fell for her even though I knew better, and I walked away to protect us both. Now it's three years later and I'm deep undercover with the FBI. Figures that the bikers I'm trying to take down would be targeting her; that's just my damned luck.Ironically, she's free to love anyone she wants now. But she doesn't know that she can trust me. And I don't know that I can trust myself to be around her again.Regardless, I'm going to keep her safe—with my life if it comes to it. Honestly, the risk to my survival, I'm trained to deal with. But the risk to my heart in all this? That's a whole different story...----Previously published as Emerson Drake (c) 2018, completely rewritten in first person POV and revised throughout with newly added content, and a different extended ending.