by Brook Wilder
“Hey.”
Harley walked in, a six-pack of beer in her hands.
“I brought back up.”
I shook my head as I shut the door behind her.
“I’m not drinking.”
She whirled around, her eyes narrowing.
“You’re not drinking? Are you serious? But you always get drunk on the anniversary.”
I fought the urge to blurt out the real reason I couldn’t drink.
“My stomach is rolling today. I-I haven’t been able to keep anything down.”
Harley stared at me for a moment, before shrugging her slim shoulders and plopping down on the couch, taking the six pack with her.
“Whatever. More for me. God, these exams are a killer. Tell me again why I decided to torture myself like this?”
I joined her on the couch, curling my legs beneath me.
“Because, you are going to be the one sister in the family that has a college degree and make tons of money.”
She rolled her eyes as she popped the top on the beer.
“You’re trying to butter me up.”
I rolled my eyes then.
“Oh, whatever. You are going to be a fucking awesome nurse. Dad can put you on retainer to patch up the bullet holes.”
Harley nearly spit out her beer, her peals of laughter making me smile.
Even though we were only half sisters, we had this bond between us that most full-blooded siblings did not have. The problem with that was that Harley had started following in my footsteps, though her outbursts were ten times worse. While I just wanted to be the president of the Horsemen one day, Harley had wanted to be memorable in more ways than one. She had started really acting out, making Tessa and my dad stress out over her antics. I had talked to her more than once about it, but it had always ended in a shouting match and one of us storming off.
The turning point was when Harley had been kidnapped by our dad’s former right-hand man, Grayson Barnes. While he hadn’t touched her, the time she had spent in that building, alone, had affected Harley greatly. My friend, Sydney, had rescued her just in the nick of time and from that moment on she had turned her life around.
Now she was enrolled in nursing classes at the local college, well on her way to becoming the nurse that I knew she secretly wished to be.
“Did you pass your exam?” I asked, picking at the pillow in my lap.
“Yeah,” she answered, relief on her face. “Who would have ever thought I would have such a hard time with medications? One more, and I am done for a month or two.”
“Good,” I smiled as she cracked open another beer.
Harley looked over, eyeing me.
“Are you okay? I know I’ve been busy with school and all and haven’t been over here for you lately.”
I pursed my lips, knowing exactly what she was talking about. Two months ago, I, along with Sydney and Roxanne, had been kidnapped by the Teutonic Brotherhood. The Brotherhood was a neo-Nazi group who specialized in illegal weapon sales. Though we had only been in their hands for a very short period of time, the shootout that had occurred as we were being rescued still haunted me at night.
“Maybe we have met our quota for being kidnapped.”
“I hope so,” Harley sighed, leaning back on the couch. “I really hope they all burn in hell.”
I couldn’t agree. There was one person that had been present during my kidnapping, one person who could make my blood boil and my stomach do funny flips whenever he was present.
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OTHER BOOKS BY BROOK WILDER
FRONTIER REAPERS MC TRILOGY
DECEIVED
BETRAYED
FORSAKEN
DEVIL’S MARTYRS MC SERIES
DEVIL’S DEAL
DEVIL’S SEED
DEVIL’S BARGAIN
DEVIL’S PACT
DEVIL’S VOW
DEVIL’S PASSION
GHOST RIDERS MC SERIES
BOUGHT
SHACKLED
DIRTY CRUISERS MC SERIES
RIDE HARD
RIDE ROUGH
RIDE WILD
RIDE FREE
RIDE DEEP
RIDE HOME
CONTARINI CRIME FAMILY SERIES
CLAIMED BY THE DON
CHAINED BY THE DON
BOUND BY THE DON
BROKEN HOUNDS MC SERIES
RENEGADE
REVENGE
REDEMPTION
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