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She rarely used it, or at least had rarely used it until she ht herself a se of town Just a sarden A space for her to enjoy and relax After all the drah, she wanted it

At thirty years old, she kneas lame to just want peace and quiet, but she was done with men Done with all the drama they seemed to entail

Ryan calass with more tequila, and she thanked him She didn’t even know if Fort Clover had a cab company She ay past her limit

When the bar suddenly went silent, she frowned and turned around to see what the problem was In the doorway stood not one, but six, orbikers She ht to her head

The realtor had warned her there was a localaround There had been one close by in the last town she lived in, and that hadn’t been much of a problem

Spinning back to the bar, she stared down at her shot, wondering why the hell she was even celebrating anyway Yes, she was finally rid of Derek, but why celebrate that? He’d been wrong for her from the start

Before he’d entered her life, she had friends, a great job, fun Her ex had turned her into a wo out, and just lived for his approval, only to never get it He’d chipped away at her arht in their bedrooone off inside her head, and she’d flipped right back to who she was Only now, she was all alone and ten years older No kids No e Fuck all but a nice house, her bakery, and her parents’to her

A large, sexy-looking ht beside her The leather cut didn’t have any sleeves and his heavily inked, ht of his knuckles Hell’s ritten across them with the apostrophe in the divot between the l and the s

She’d never gotten any tattoos It was on her bucket list

Thank you, la loser

She lifted her glass into the air and knocked it back, nearly choking on it

“Wohat are we drinking to, pretty lady?”

His gruff voice went straight to her core No man should ever be able to turn a woman on with just the sound of his voice She turned her head to her little neighbor and stared at hilanced fro for a few seconds on her tits

She wasn’t a slender woive a flying fuck about it either After ten years of being told how ugly she was and how she didn’t measure up to Derek, she’d made a vow to never allow a le iteht herself a whole neardrobe