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“No, he left yesterday on some mission I don’t knohen he’ll be back”

Well, that explained a lot There was no way Crankshaft would’ve been okay with leaving the clubhouse unguarded Heads were going to roll when the guys came back

“Hold on, if you didn’t burn down the Dark Tribe’s clubhouse, then why are you here?” Becca asks, pulling away fro cautiously up at , and I can tell that the shock of seeing so to really hit her

Oh, speaking of, we have a dead body to dispose of My eyes flick over to Devil and then to Butch I jerkblood around his body Butch nods and heads toward the body to take care of it

That worry dealt with, I can finally focus on the one and only reason I had come to Manhattan: Becca

“I’m here because I love you,” I say “I've lived this last ithout you, and it’s been hell on earth Becca, I never want to be without you again Will you irls as they listen to nore theoddess

“I would love to,” Becca says, throwing her ar Island!”

I start laughing and begin swinging her around and around,her squeal loudly in my ear I love every sound, but then I hear the best sound of all—a happy sigh

“I love you too, Harlan,” she whispers into my ear, and I know that there’s no better sound in the world

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Becca

"Harlan, get ht "I love you too, and I wanna show you just how much far, far from here"

His arms wrap around me and the ht after I saw hi short of shootingbad biker There are things about his life I don't understand, but I know that Harlan is ht now His lips are onin the world His wet tongue sliding overup to let him in, how he breathes in my ht to hih of this man My man

Still holding his hand, he takes me to his bike, hands ht, for dear life, as he starts upto vibrateonto hi on to hi that's ever happened to me

I don't knohere he's driving to, and I don't kno long it is going to take, but I digharder because I want to wrapto do of course so I resist, but that's what's on ainst his back, listening to the sound of the road and feeling so free with hi earlier fro the man I love kill so on; he didn't burn down the clubhouse, but he did kill Devil But I don't want to think about it I don't need to That's all behind us and we're going forward Harlan and I started so before, but that's finished and we're at the start of so to start, in Long Island, far away from the shit stor to Harlan with every turn in the road and know I'ht, I'll sleep with his arms wrapped around me Perfection That's the only way to describe this I'm so safe when I'm with him, so happy, and it's like I'm more myself than I've ever been Harlan sets me free