Total pages in book: 73
Estimated words: 70940 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 355(@200wpm)___ 284(@250wpm)___ 236(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 70940 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 355(@200wpm)___ 284(@250wpm)___ 236(@300wpm)
I slap my hands on my thighs and say, “We’re the great detectives! Fuck the biker clubs. We should make our own club!”
Mykel snorts. “Loser.”
I giggle. “You love me.”
“One thing’s for sure,” he chuckles. “Life wouldn’t be the same without you, kid.”
I grin.
Bring it on.
9
THEN – BRIELLA
18 YEARS OLD
I laugh, throwing my head back as my best friend, Aviana, wiggles her booty to a song we’re playing as we get ready for a party at the clubhouse tonight.
It’s not often they hold parties where we are allowed to attend, but tonight it’s my eighteenth birthday and they’re making an exception for me. I’m totally grateful because I wouldn’t want to have it anywhere else. God no. Those guys are so much fun. Alarick is stepping up now to run the club for King, who is wanting to take a bit more time away from it to travel with my mom. That’s nice, I think, that he can hand it down. Not entirely, of course, he still wants most control, but he wants to be able to have that bit of freedom too.
Now Alarick is twenty-five he’s definitely fitting in a great deal more and all the other guys are now patched in as members.
“I’m so freakin’ excited,” Aviana tells me. “I hope Cohen is there, he’s so super-hot.”
I shake my head. “He’s got a girlfriend.”
“So?” she says, staring at me with wide brown eyes. “Like I care. One look at this booty and he’s going to forget her name.”
That’s what I love about Aviana. Her personality is addictive. She’s so fucking strong minded and hilarious. She knows what she wants, and she’s not afraid to say it. If she’s displeased, she’ll make sure you know about it. If she’s happy, she’ll laugh until you swell with joy. She’s the best person I know, and I’m glad I met her a year ago when she moved into town and started at the same school.
We’ve been close ever since.
“You’re terrible,” I giggle, running a hair straightener through my hair. “Do you think my dress works?”
“Girl, your dress is so hot even I’m thinking about turning lesbian for you. Seriously, you rock white and it’s so tight on that bootay that I’m thinking maybe Alarick is going to reconsider his options, too.”
“Don’t even,” I roll my eyes at her. “Alarick is my friend.”
“Honey, Alarick wants to bend you over and take that virginity more than he wants to breathe his next breath.”
I shake my head. “He is seeing someone, I’m fairly certain there is nothing there between us.”
Aviana rolls her eyes. “You’re dreamin’ lady. We’ll just see what tonight brings, shall we?”
I snort and finish doing my hair and makeup. I’m not going to lie, at eighteen, I’m definitely looking my best. My body is curvy and filled out in all the right places, my hair is long and thick, my eyes are bright, and lips are full. I am excited to see what tonight brings, I’m excited to be sharing it with the club.
I’m just damned excited.
“You girls ready to roll?”
I look over to see King standing in the door, dressed in his usual club attire with his leather jacket sitting on his broad shoulders, where it always is. His eyes scan over me and his brows go up. “Your momma know you’re wearin’ that?”
I roll my eyes and laugh. “Yes, she picked it with me.”
He mumbles something under his breath and then nods at Aviana. “How are you, Avi?”
“Good, King, how are you?”
“Good. How’s your father?”
King always asks her about her father. I have no idea why. My guess is he does some sort of business with him. I don’t get involved in anything to do with the club, but I’m also not blind to what actually goes on there. We all know that they deal with illegal and dangerous business. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
Aviana’s dad runs some big company, and if I’m perfectly honest, he creeps me out. I’m not sure what it is about him, but he has this evil edge to him that I think behind the scenes is pretty bad. Avi is a happy girl, but I’ve also seen the sadness in her eyes when she talks about her family. Beneath the surface, I know she holds a lot of pain and doesn’t share half the things that have happened to her.
Her motto is “You still get to choose who you are, no matter what has happened to you. Your past does not define you and the only person that can sculpt your future is you.”
I love her for that.
She’s strong and she’s brave. She’s the kind of girl that would get knocked down and even bloodied and bruised she would pull herself back up again, put a smile on her face, and keep fighting. She doesn’t believe life is here to be wasted and she doesn’t let anyone come between her and what she believes in.