Vice

VICE

A Dark 1% MC Romance

Nico Valenti was born into blood.
He chose something harder.

Raised inside an Italian crime family that expected obedience and silence, Nico walked away at seventeen with nothing but a motorcycle and a refusal to belong to men who mistook control for loyalty. Texas didn't ask questions. The road didn't care about his name. And the outlaw club that watched him ride knew exactly what he was before he ever earned a cut.

Dark Reigns MC didn't raise him.
They took him in.

Before the military, before the discipline and medals, Nico learned the outlaw code the only way it's ever taught. Ride straight. Earn your place. Don't flinch. When he chose to enlist, it wasn't escape. It was sharpening the blade. Eight years of war stripped away anything unnecessary and left behind something precise, controlled, and lethal.

When he came home, Dark Reigns didn't hesitate.
They put him where he belongs.

Enforcer.

They call him Vice because once he closes his grip, there's no panic, no mercy, and no release. He applies pressure slowly. Methodically. Until resistance collapses and silence takes over. Loyalty is non-negotiable. Betrayal is terminal.

Then a bullet drops him.

He wakes in an ER under fluorescent lights, stitched together by a woman who doesn't look at him like a monster or a legend. She's calm. Steady. Too familiar with violence to be afraid of it. As a nurse practitioner, she treats his wounds with practiced hands and guarded eyes, understanding him in ways she never explains.

She knows the weight of this life.
The cost of it.
The rules that keep men like Nico breathing.

What grows between them isn't fast or easy. It's deliberate. Built on restraint, recognition, and the quiet pull of two people who understand exactly what the world can do to you. Their connection is forged in shared truths, not confessions. In trust earned under pressure.

But Dark Reigns MC doesn't exist in peace. Enemies don't stay buried. And Nico's past, both the one he escaped and the one he chose, is never truly gone.

Loving Vice means standing close to violence.
Standing with him means accepting the consequences.

And Nico Valenti will burn the world down before he loses what's his.

Because this time,
he's not choosing between the road and love.
He's fighting for both.