Free Originals Ride: Hellions Motorcycle Club (Hellions Ride Book 8) by Chelsea Camaron

Marie. Thank you for having faith in me and my club.”
    “As Claudia says, ride until we die, baby.”
     
     
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    They spend three years locked up in the state jail for possession with intent to distribute across state lines. Mary Alice had a rough time of it early on, but she’s strong. Claudia and she moved in together for a bit to help each other with the babies growing up.
    The club now has an attorney who said it would be in our best interests to separate the businesses. Haywood’s Landing now has my car restoration and mechanics shop down the street from what was once Clive’s and is now Roundman’s bike shop. Claudia and he are building a house on the lot next door so the property is expanded.
    Mary Alice doesn’t want Danza on the road anymore. I told her he could work for me since Frisco has been running the bike shop while Roundman was away.
    While they were locked up, we managed to build a real clubhouse and grow the Hellions MC. We are stronger than ever before, even though Fury MC has kept their distance.
    The day they rolled in on Clive is one that is forever engrained in my memory. I will never forget the fear I felt, the helplessness that consumed me as I was left with no choice but to take a life in order to save that of my friend and myself.
    We are family. Through thick and thin, we hold each other up.
     
     

Dear Rhett,
I know you expected me to visit today and bring Savannah. I can’t. I just can’t do this anymore. The time is nearing for you to return home, and I’ll be honest with you and myself, I don’t think you should come to our house. You see, while you’ve been serving your time, so have we. You see, while you’ve been away, I’ve been okay on my own. Rocky, Frisco, and all the club have stepped in during your absence, but more than that, I’ve learned to stand on my own without you. I’ve learned not to wait for hours on end for you to pull in to our driveway. I haven’t had to spend my time wondering if you would come home or if you would pick a fight with me just to have an excuse to leave.
This is the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make, but for me and my daughter, I’m asking you to go to the compound and not here. I’m asking that you let me go.
I’ve stood by you through everything. I’ve done anything asked of me. Now I ask of you to please make this easy and let me go.
You will always have my heart, but I cannot continue to remain numb to the pain you continue to bring me. I will love you with every breath I take, but I need the same from you.
I want a life with mutual respect, adoration, and emotion through the good and the bad. If you can’t give me that, then at least give me the freedom to be on my own rather than wait around for you to have an epiphany that will never come.
With love and tears,
Mary Alice
    Three weeks until I get out of this place and this is what she sends me.
    I punch the brick wall of my cell, and Roundman stands and comes to me.
    “Wanna tell me what that’s about, brother?”
    “Not gonna let her go,” I growl.
    “Then you better straighten out your shit, brother.”
    I let my mind go over all the wrongs I’ve done. The first time I stepped out on her, I told myself it was just to have something new. Mary Alice was my first everything. I knew it was wrong, but each and every time I let a barfly touch me, I found some way to justify it to myself. There is no justification. I’m wrong. I have taken for granted the gift of her love. I have expected her loyalty without giving it in return. I have left my woman and our child while I serve time and really not given a second thought to what it has done to her. Well, I see clearly now. I’ve done wrong, but all is not lost.
    This isn’t the end, Mary Alice. I’ve made mistakes, but I can’t walk away.
     

Homecoming
     

    The guys are getting released this morning. We are giving them the day with their women so they can get laid. Tonight, though, it’s a party at the