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Since we’d lost the ga for the playoffs, and were officially off until next season began, leavingto do but think about how irl pissed me off

Instead of dwelling on how she always knew just how to pressthat I kneould piss her off even more I called her mom

Finding her nao and put it to my ear

“Hello, Lincoln,” Winnie Cross, Conleigh’s mother, drawled “To what do I owe this pleasure?”

She knew exactly what I was going to ask

I sighed “Is it time yet?”

Winnie laughed “You knohat he’s going to say”

Eight years ago, when I h by none other than Steel Cross, the president of the Alabama chapter of the Dixie Wardens MC

Nor that got in the way of what I wanted, but it was hard to tell o fuck hihter anyway

So, instead, I’d beco I wanted to do

A few years after h, and the same day that I’d been drafted to my team, I joined the Texas branch of the Dixie Wardens MC However, e’d gotten to Bear Botto us the Bear Bottoed our na that it had caused our fathers—original members of the Dixie Wardens

But, we’d decided that we didn’t want to follow in our fathers’ shadows and found that the best way to do that was not to use the Dixie Wardens’ nao with Bear Bottom Guardians MC Of course, our loyalty ith the Dixie Wardens MC, and we’d always have their backs if they needed us—but ere branching off on our own into so entirely new In a show of respect, we had a Dixie Wardens MC rocker added onto our cuts We still referred to ourselves as the Guardians, though

Which was still kind of rough on all of the old timers that had put the Dixie Wardens on the map, so to speak

There was Silas Mackenzie, the president of the Benton, Louisiana chapter There was Gordon McGrew, the president of the Little Rock, Arkansas chapter Oh, and my personal favorite—thePapa, as the president of the Mooresville, Alabama chapter

Those three ht pissed that we didn’t take the Dixie Wardens’ naone so far as to demand that we use it or not be affiliated with them at all