Out of Bets
(Knights of Lovelen Book 3)

Allison Aldridge

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About Out of Bets

The Little Bird

Innocence was never mine to keep.

I was raised to be perfect. Soft-spoken. Untouched. A doll on a shelf my father guarded like currency. Sneaking out of my gilded cage was supposed to be one borrowed night—lipstick, loud music, freedom. Instead, it dropped me into Lovelen’s dark underbelly and into the path of the most dangerous man I’d ever met.

The Poisoner warned me to return to my sheltered life. But I didn’t want to be preserved. Six months later, my best friend is gone, girls who look like me are vanishing, and I finally understand what innocence costs in a city that feeds upon it. I didn’t ask him to keep me safe. I asked him to help me break the cage.

The Poisoner

Some things are worth becoming a monster for.

I know what happens to pretty things that wander into my world. I am not a hero. I am not safe. So I warned her away.

The girl who returns isn’t fragile anymore. She’s hunting. She comes with leverage and a bargain that tells me she’s more dangerous than anyone knows. What starts as a deal turns feral. I told her I don’t know how to be gentle. Then her father reminds me why men like me exist.

Loving her could cost me everything. But if anyone tries to take her from me, I’ll poison every breath in their lungs.