I cock an eyebrow as she shoves the marble notebook into my hands.
“What’s this?” I say, fighting off sleep as I picture her on her knees with her mouth full.
God, I’m a lucky man.
“Open it,” she orders, tapping her nails against the cover. “Wait,” she says as I move to open the book and leans down to press her lips to mine. “Okay, green light. Go!”
I laugh, opening the book and glance down at the lined pages. Narrowing my eyes, I flip through the pages and see they are all filled, the same thing written repeatedly on every line.
Gina Kincaid.
“I’ve practiced writing it a thousand times.”
Beautiful.
Right there in a name.
A name written a thousand times.
A name that’s filled every page of a notebook.
Hers.
Mine.
Us.
Beautiful.
Bonus Epilogue
Most people live their lives wondering about the afterlife. They ask themselves if it exists, if there really is a Heaven, and some question how the people who claim to love them—how those people will mourn the loss of them once they’re gone.
I never had to wonder, I died at fourteen years old and I can answer all those questions for you.
There most definitely is no Heaven and I can tell you for a fact that Satan exists.
So does hell.
As for the people who claimed to love me?
Well, I’d like to think they cared, maybe shed some tears when they realized I was never coming back to them. I like to think they fought, that they never gave up hope on me, but I’m twenty-six years old and I’m still living in hell.
They gave up on finding me.
They mourned me.
The probably even had a service for me.
Now, I’m just a distant memory, a piece of them they lost.
I’ve been sexually abused, sold, traded and now I’m property of a motorcycle club. I am a self-proclaimed whore, who has no respect for her body. I’ll spread my legs and suck dick on command as long as someone fills my veins with the shit that makes me forget I once had the perfect life.
I came from a good home, with two parents who loved me and my twin brother more than anything in this whole world.
I had friends.
A best friend who would have ended up right where I am today if I hadn’t of switched places with her. If I hadn’t of been the innocent fourteen-year-old girl who naively devised a plan to turn her best friend into her sister by setting her up with my brother.
I often wonder if that ever worked.
If my death brought them together. They were just kids, but who knows. It could happen.
Don’t tell me I’m being foolish.
I need to believe there is still something beautiful outside the walls of this clubhouse.
I need to believe love exists.
I thought I was in love once.
Three years ago after Rush’s old lady caught me and him together she threatened to castrate him and blow all his secrets wide open. Rush handed me over to the club, let them all have a go at me, but only one actually saw me for more than a quick fuck.
Stryker.
When you’ve lived the life I have you give up on the knight in shining armor and take whatever the fuck you can get. Stryker used me to fuck like every other Satan’s Knight, but he never fed my habit and to me that was big. It was huge. To me that meant he cared about me. I wasn’t just a hole for him to fuck but a woman he saw life in.
He didn’t care.
He just pitied me.
Tying the band around my bony and bruised arm, I flick my skin trying to find a vein.
I don’t want anyone’s pity.
I don’t want anything but my drugs.
I want to forget this life and remember who I was before I was shoved into the back of a van.
Finding a viable vein, I shove the needle into my arm and press down with my thumb, emptying the contents of the syringe into my bloodstream.
I close my eyes, waiting for the heroin to kick in and to be transcended back in time—to the pretty blonde girl with blue eyes that match her brothers.
I pucker my dry lips and kiss Ally goodbye and welcome the memory of Alexandria.
Next from Janine
The nomad series continues with Wanderer (Cobra's Story)
Roamer
Loner
Also, Coming Soon
The Riverdale Series Boxed Set (Written in First Person)
From the Ruins
Pipes story
The Sacrifice Series is the Rise & Fall of a Mobster
Rocco Spinelli in Sacrificing his Soul
Other Books by Janine Infante Bosco
The Tempted Series: *all can be read as standalone*
Illicit Temptations (Book One) – Michael & Nikki
Forbidden Temptations (Book Two) – Anthony & Adrianna
Uncontrollable Temptations (Book Three) – Jack & Reina
Reckless Temptations (Book Four) – Riggs & Lauren
Lethal Temptations (Book Five) – Blackie & Lacey
Eternal Temptations (Book Six) – the conclusion featuring all six couples which includes Victor & Grace.
The Riverdale Series: *should be read in series order*
Pieces – Book One
Broken Pieces – Book Two
Fitting the Pieces – Book Three
Jake’s Journal (Book 3.5) novella – companion to the series.
About the Author
Janine Infante Bosco lives in New York, she has always loved reading and writing. When she was thirteen, she began to write her own stories and her passion for writing took off as the years went on. At eighteen, she even wrote a full screenplay with dreams of one day becoming a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Janine writes emotionally charged novels with an emphasis on family bonds, strong willed female characters, and alpha male men who will do anything for the women they love. She loves to interact with fans and fellow avid romance readers like herself.
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Drifter A Nomad Series Novel
By
Janine Infante Bosco
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ISBN-13: 978-1370200245
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