Hard Limit by Sybil Bartel

One f*cking breath.
That’s all I needed.
Air in my lungs so I could exhale through the pain.

My ribs broken, my face in the mud, one leg useless, I tried and failed to lift my head. Mosquitoes swarmed, and the sun dropped. I wasn’t gonna die out here. No f*cking way. I was Tarquin Scott, and that was a hard limit. One arm crawl after another, I needed to man up.

I wasn’t dead yet.

But then I heard her voice, angel soft and breathless, and I wondered if I’d been kidding myself. I didn’t have time to figure it out. A small hand landed on my back and I fisted my bloody knife.

I wasn’t gonna die tonight. But someone else was.

*HARD LIMIT is the first book in the Alpha Antihero Series.