I had known Knox long enough to know that he wasn’t into the random hook-ups. So when I saw him doting on Ani like he was, I knew that it was the real thing. I smile looking back, watching as Ani came into the room, flustered and blushing. She was the same girl I once was when I first came out of the hotel doors in Ireland and saw Jameson for the first time. Sometimes you just know when something is right. It doesn’t always have to be love, it just has to be right and if it is, love will come later.
We all fight our battles, its part of living in the club life. You have to be strong enough to not let it get you down. If I had given in every time the shit got deep, I wouldn’t be standing where I am right now, surrounded by three beautiful children and a husband who has supported me in ways I could never have imagined. The demons get us all. They aren’t prejudice, they don’t pick and choose, if you’re breathing, you’re fair game. But you have to look inside of you and figure out what kind of person you are. I stand here now, surrounded by my friends and family as one of our own lays in a casket in the next room. I have watched Ani every day for the past week, watching the demons eating away at her. She is carrying a weight on her shoulders that would break any other person. But I see that same fighting spirit in her eyes that are in my own. It’s going to be hard, and there will be times that she wants to give up, but we won’t let her. We will stand united with her as a family and help her through it until the end.
The day I was picked to do a report on Ireland, was the day that changed my life. I met the man I would love until the day I die, became family to people I had never imagined I would be close with, I’ve held the hand of my husband when we thought we would lose our first born child, and laid some good people to rest, but having been through all that I know that there is nothing that this world can put me through that I can’t overcome. When you have good people by your side, people who will always pick you up when you fall down, you can make it through anything. And though these next few months may look dark, I know that if we stick together, we will find the light at the end of the tunnel.
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.” – Richard Bach
Want more of the Ladies of Karnage?
Stay tuned for the upcoming release of the following Ladies of Karnage Novellas:
Starla
Johanna
LuLu
Quinn
Chloe
Kate
Also coming this Spring:
Tame Heart
Book Two of the Wild Heart series.
Starla (The Ladies of Karnage Novella Series) Page 7
