She shows up, beaten and broken from her marriage, and instantly changes everything. All the same, I have a two-year-old son to think about now.Īnd then there’s Ashley. Life, after all, continues to move right on along even when you’re not there to watch it go. It shouldn’t have been a surprise that by the time I came back home after all these years that she’d up-and-left town and gotten married.
Then the blonde wild-child of the Montana’s Reapers motorcycle club, Ashley Monroe, showed up and proved that I had a lot more to lose than I thought. I never expected that I’d have anything or anyone to lose when I enlisted in the army. Yet, the bruises from my past tell me to never trust another man again.īut Blackjack isn’t like any other man, is he? A part of me is desperate to believe I deserve to be loved, deserve someone like Blackjack in my life. That’s sweet and all, sure, but there’s more to him something about his stare that I can’t get out of my mind. He swears he’ll kill my no-good husband the second he steps foot in town. Though it’s only a matter of time before he picks up on my trail. Lucky enough, I got out of my marriage in one piece. My abusive husband, Harry? He made those distinctions very clear to me.Ĭonstant beatings, a forced a miscarriage, and then roping me in with my father’s notorious biker gang, The Reapers. When you’re married, there are the things you can live with… and the things you can’t.
