From Greasy Queen To Polished Power
me loft above the old Road Vipers clubhouse, now silent, soon to be gutted. H
d to ta
r hands stained with grease. Ten years with Jax, and th
s," she said,
toms is launching next month. The lounge
the words. "And you a
heart gave a hard thump against he
like
is voice rough. "It's been a long time coming
omeone. Lily. She's a waitress d
er. Lily. She'd seen her once, a kid
stable life, someone to look out for h
The words hu
dded, almost as an afterthought
from for him – he saw it as a distant, irrelevant fact, not the safety net it always was. He
continued, oblivious to the storm inside her. "They cal
ifferent, Ava. Lily's different. She's not like you were. You could ride out
aking up, the danger, the wild loyalty she'd given
he said. Her v
edroom, and started pulling a duff
asing his forehead. "You're
. She almost laughed. A
ax. No
satisfaction. She wouldn
relieved. T
hat's go
turing his clean new life. And she, apparently, was just a piece of the old one, easi