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The trees create a green canopy and we’re surrounded by dark shade In the rearview ness

"You could be nicer to him" I typically would never toss around our business in front of a stranger, but E in a feeeks and she won’t follow the conversation This ether

"I could," Violet says as she stares into the saet any of us?"

The club is a blessing and Violet treats it as a curse This family, this brotherhood, it’s not the ene to shake us up or take us down

Those forces are people like Violet or people like Es It’s law enforces or women Or worse, what threaten us are diseases like the one that ravages the worand in hts away

The overhead canopy gives way and sunlight strea driveway that leads to the clubhouse then farther down to my home I’m not sure who nicknamed it Thunder Road or why, but the na off the sideso your ho I suck in a breath to apologize to Violet when she speaks again

"Run as fast as you can, Eests she knows more than she should "From what I’ve heard, some members of your club are okay with homicide"

E wheel I should have let Violet rot in the su, but Emily isn’t aware of that "You know that’s not true"

Violet’s been hanging with those full-of-themselves snob kids at school who think the Terror is the devil’s playground Can’t stop haters froins to spew the lies

She rolls her eyes and when she pops her ain, I cut her off "How secure are you in your new friendships at school? What happens when they turn on you? Do you think we’ll protect you while keeping Stone safe? Are your new friends going to stick around forever or are they going to decide that once in the MC always in the MC?"

E the warning in my tone The truth is, I’ll protect Violet until the end, no matter how she disrespects e over her to prevent her fro to Emily that will cost me the chance to be a prospect

Violet closes her irls are nothing but trouble