Precinct's Promise

She told the mob to go to hell. He's the man who'll make sure they stay there.

Vera Kowalski has spent four years building a tattoo shop in Hell's Kitchen—inking skin, paying bills, and proving that the Army medic who came home broken could create beauty instead of just patching wounds. But when Frank Deluca's protection racket walks through her door, Vera does the unthinkable: she tells them no. They break her fingers for the insult.

She splints her own hand and opens the next morning.

Then he walks in.

Precinct didn't earn his road name by accident. The former NYPD detective spent three years building a case against Deluca's empire—until his own partner put a bullet in his chest and the system buried everything he'd built. Now he wears a Kings patch instead of a badge, and when Deluca's men threaten a woman on club territory, Precinct sees a chance to finish what he started.

What he doesn't expect is her.

Vera Kowalski with her steady hands and sharper tongue. Vera who splinted her own broken fingers and went back to work. Vera who looks at the badge-shaped burn scar on his chest—the one he put there himself—like it's the most honest tattoo she's ever seen.

She's not supposed to matter. She's just a shop owner caught in a thirty-year war.

But when Precinct claims her as his to protect, the line between justice and obsession disappears. Because Vera isn't just under his protection anymore.

She's becoming his reason to believe in something again.

As Deluca's empire strikes back with borrowed soldiers and brutal retaliation, Precinct will have to choose: the guilt that's been driving him or the woman who makes him want to live instead. But Vera isn't asking him to choose. She's standing beside him, needle in hand, ready to mark them both permanent.

In Hell's Kitchen, debts are paid in blood. Justice comes from the barrel of a gun. And when a cop who burned his badge finds an artist who refuses to break, nothing will stop him from claiming her.

Precinct's Promise is the ninth standalone MC romance in the Empire Kings MC Series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.