Daire: Fae on Wheels, #5

By Riley Onyx

Lindsay

I swore never to fall for a fae again. But after a few too many drinks, he ends up in my bed. He's gone by morning to fight more monsters. Three weeks later it's clear the impossible has happened…

Daire

I didn't mean to end up in her bed, but I don't regret it. When I return months later, she's pregnant. I have to decide if I give up the hunt and return to faery with her, or I leave and never see her again. She deserves better than me.

Book 5 in the insta love paranormal romance series filled with fae bikers, monster hunting, and danger. For readers who want a bad boy fae warrior to sweep them off their feet. Steamy romance with no cliffhangers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Riley Onyx
• Release date: Dec 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215743508

Book preview

1

Lindsay

Ipour another glass of wine and hand it over. Later it will be shots, but for the moment it’s a meal and telling tales. I should feel something. Shay was Danni’s father and for a few months I’d thought myself in love with him.

Back then I’d been a naïve fool who’d been enamored with riders and all things fae, I believed Shay would take me there and we’d be a family. In hindsight, that would’ve been a disaster. He’d never wanted a wife and kids; he’d lived only for the fight. And in the end, it had taken him. I have no doubt that he'd be happy with the way he went out.

Maybe I should’ve relented and let him use the café as a meeting place like the other riders, but I can hold a grudge as well as any fae. He derailed my life, our daughter’s life.

Maybe I do feel something, anger.

These fae men swoop into the human world to kill monsters and have a good time before going home. They promise magic and faery, but don’t always deliver. They never look back and see the wreckage left behind. The single mothers raising fae kids, the lucky ones know what to expect. The unlucky ones discover their kid can see monsters.

This café is for riders, and the women they leave behind, the ones who know, who need help. And the ones who never got to go to faery because their rider kept fighting until he was killed. They are the ones I really feel sorry for; they had partner and were making a life in the human world while waiting to be taken to faery.

Riders can be selfish and cold.

But tonight they are somber and hurt and remembering their lost brothers. Some of them I knew. Some of them never came this far north. Some died before I was born.

Every rider here is old, even though most of them barely look mid-twenties. And some have been in this job for nearly one hundred years. I have no doubt some will be here for another hundred, or until they make a mistake that ends their fight.

Daire holds out his glass for a refill. His eyes are glassy. He’d volunteered with Shay, and they’d been friends for decades before becoming riders together. But Shay ditching me after getting me pregnant so he could keep fighting, had caused a rift between them.

I’m sorry, I say. It’s a lame thing to say. Every time I host a wake, I vow to come up with something more interesting, and every time I say the same dumb shit.

He glances as me, blue eyes, and dark hair. Like all the fae, he’s pretty. Had