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Chapter One

Ride

Jesus

I feel like a fucking Mack truck hit me

I shift against the ce into rimace with theofpain it nearly takes my breath

I can feel the burn of the ropes against ht it, there’s no way to get free The sa into the skin at s, but it’s so fucking dark I really can’t make out much I think I’ e to take intothem to burn

I listen to the noises around me, but it’s just silence I’m not a man who has much time for fear I’ve actually never felt it, at least as an adult If I were ever going to succumb to the emotion however, it would be now

Still, I beat it down and do ether, and really, that takes much more effort than it should I left the party at the club early, just wanting to be alone

We’d just burned Creek’s cut and shared a drink in hisoff steaht fraunned down, shot in the back by soing down one of us

The Deadly Scorpions have finally taken over Bastrop, Texas We have ventured into San Antonio and Houston,our connections, so we’re set up to run our businesses without being fucked with It hasn’t been easy, and it’s been bloody, but I had ht the worst was over Creek’s death was proof I rong As President of the club, I feel the weight of Creek’s death more than others My brother trustedlet him down

That’s why I left early I just needed to be alone and grieve I got out to my bike, felt this sharp pain at the back of my head, and then the world went black