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"Fuck. I thought I was going to have to put you back together again.

We got back to the bikes, and Gabe went with Knuckles while Natalia got on behind me. Her hands wrapped around my waist and her cheek tucked into my back.

"I love you," she whispered, making my heart sore.

"You have no idea how much I love you back, Kitten."

I felt her kiss my neck and we took off. Finally heading home.

EPILOGUE

JAMESON

Present Day…

Seven years had goneby since my life had been stripped away, and my first love murdered at the hands of that vile piece of shit, Rancid.

The echoes of that night haven’t quieted, but I did. Sadie helped me with that. I don't think she realizes what she did for me, how her love saved. And I loved her, in my own dark way, but I'd do anything for that woman and my baby.

The years had made me wiser and hardened us all a bit. I'd rebuilt the clubhouse, restructured all the members, and now we are stronger than ever.

My men sat around the table toward the back of the Clubhouse. Powertrain had found a way to make us quick money using crypto currency, and we made bank in the last year. We put it all into the reconstruction of the house, and now everything we owned was high-tech and digital. Hoax couldn't have been happier.

Everyone who I sat at my table knew what loyalty and brotherhood meant. No patch who hadn’t proven that earned a seat here today.

Scorn sat to my right. He’d been named Sergeant-at-Arms a few years back after Knuckles left. Knuckles had a run down with the Scorpions and some other dealings he had with his woman, who had been the sister to the President back then. After Brewer died, Tadeo Reyes was voted in as President. That had been a shit show as Cesar Dominguez betrayed him and killed him. Knuckles was caught up in the middle of all this. All I do know? Knuckles walked away. He took his woman and with a heavy heart, he disappeared, and I haven't seen my friend in years. But I vowed I would bring him back. And I don’t take those types of vows lightly. Not when it came to Knuckles.

Scorn had been a Nomad at the time. Never quite managed to settle until a skirt, a schoolteacher, made him see the light. He was a soldier through and through. Trusted. Ruthless. Calm otherwise. Just what the club needed. Spectre, our tracker, had left us his son Macabre. I’d reached out to him recently and he had finally returned to his seat at the table. Powertrain sat across from me, Goshawk had brought him in years ago and he was a good man to have. He’d shown his loyalty more than once and I trusted him beyond most. Bullet, our Secretary took mental notes in the corner. Any orders I made, he made sure they went through to the right people. Today I had some serious news.

“I’ve got some news.” All eyes were on me.

“Croak has taken the Presidency. Slit Dominguez’s throat and declared himelf National President of the Bloody Scorpions.” I announced.

Tick Tock sat across from me, fingers drumming against the wood like they did when he was trying to stay sane. And who could blame him? Croak survived the shot to the skull that night. Some say the bastard was reborn from hell itself. I say, he got lucky and slithered out. But luck eventually runs out.

Tick Tock slammed a fist on the table. “I should have killed the motherfucker when I had the chance.”

I nodded slowly. “Couldn’t agree more. You’re a better man than me, I would have put him down like a dog.”

“What’s our next move?”

“Stay on alert, watch your backs. If you think Rancid was bad? Croak. Croak was raised in hell and came out a demon.”

“He needs to die,” Tick Tock said.

“That day’s coming. For now, keep your eyes open. Croak’s a wild card and he’s not one to forget things so easily. He’s got a bullet in his skull that has him holding a grundge liike it’s currency.”

“I’ll make it my personal mision to bring him down.”

“You see anything, you report it to me first, Tick Tock. Don’t be going rogue on me, I don’t play like that, you hear me?”

“Yes, SIr.”

“I’ll hold you to that.”

“How’s Atlanta doing?” Powertrain asked.

“I dealt with Maverick, there won’t be any more issues on his end. He just needed a little talking to, but they’ll be more careful now. I sent him out as we got another ambush on shipments. I trust he’ll deliver. The eyes are now on the Rebel Raiders and on The Scorpions.”

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