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Prologue

Callie

I’d gotten a call fro me he’d been shot, but not to worry Who did he think he was talking to? I’d been taking care of hiht him home from the hospital—that wasn’t likely to stop just because he was doing God knohat in sooing on with hi between me and the world That hy he was in this ave up his education at one of the ious universities in the country and joined ame all alone

I hadn’t had any say in the o and I’d been too wrapped up with holding ether to be able to stop it I’d been such a ure out how it had played out the way it had But I was no longer that broken girl who allowed herself to be patted on the head and told that everything was going to be okay I was going to bring my brother home, no matter what I had to do

When I pulled up to the gate, there was a ainst the fence outside When he saw ain as if he wasn’t overly concerned about what I was doing there That was his firstat my chest as he started toward my car That was his second mistake His third lancing at my hand that rested in my lap

If he had seenat my boobs, he wouldn’t have been so surprised when I pressed the Taser against his chest

Once he was down, I got out and rolled open the gate in front of lad, but a little baffled, that there was no lock on the gate They ate to keep intruders out Their mistake

I started back for ravel I wanted to just leave hi, and I was afraid if I left hi there in the ht over his ass So instead of hopping indown the road before sorabbed both of his ankles It tookhiot hi up I needed to get the hell out of there

I once again walked toward round as I passed it If he woke up before I got to the big house, or whatever the fuck it was called, I didn’t want hi forfor me at the moment was the element of surprise

I pulled the car through the gate, but s as they were Jesus, I needed to stop having such a freaking bleeding heart I left ate before heading down the road They weren’t going to be thankful that I knocked out their guard, but at least I didn’t leave the gate open That had to somehoork in my favor

When I pulled up to the huge building, I could see there was so on, but it didn’t stop me Not once did I think I should coetto stop me

I kneas a bad idea—knew the entire trip was one step away from a clusterfuck—and as soon as I saw Asa I took that final step I was so consues It was his fault All of it; from the son I had at home in some shitty worn down apart in so his life and ulti shot It could all be traced back to Asa The bastard

There was a couple standing outside when I pulled up, but before I could even gettoward the building I couldn’t understand what he was saying over the pounding in my ears I was finally there; I knew it fro It was al as I’d known him

I knew I looked like a crazy person, but whenout of the club, I used the only protection I had and started waving the Taser around I was hoping they wouldn’t be able to tell what it was until I could figure out what the hell I was going to do I hadn’t thought things through very well I’d been so anxious to get there that the ra into a Motorcycle Club’s compound uninvited had barely crossed my mind

Just as I was beginning to get really scared, I saw Asa walking through the group and all the anger inside me wiped away any fear I had felt That’s when I started screa

“You fucking dick!” I yelled, hwith the power behind it “Where the fuck is my brother?”

He started walking toward“The fuck are you doing here, Callie?” he yelled back, running his fingers through his hair “You’re outta your goddamn mind!”

I wasn’t thinking straight I was scared that I wouldn’t see my brother in the sea of faces beforethe truth when he’d toldraet him, and I was terrified that I was too late to help him