My Perfect Drug (Reapers MC: Ellsberg Chapter Book 2)
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I don’t know if Pop will ever get too old to chase his younger siblings while threatening to beat their asses. Of course, Bailey could refuse to run, but what would be the fun in that?
Motherhood brings me closer to my sisters. Our first babies are close enough in age that we always have something to share. Keith, Thisbe, and Byron grow up playing together a couple times a month, and I hope they’re as good of friends as adults as they prove to be as babies.
Audrey plans for two more so she can keep up the Hayes family symmetry, but she’s in no rush. MJ claims she might have another kid at a time and place to be disclosed later, but I suspect her family’s complete with Thisbe.
Though MJ refuses to visit Conroe in the winter, she drives to town often in the warmer months because she claims we have better hiking trails. Quaid, Thisbe, and MJ frequently go camping and regularly bring along Haydee and Hart. Dash claims my dumb sister recognizes her own kind with his niece and nephew.
“The dumb are a subspecies that must stick together,” he claims while I’m forced to get angry at him for calling MJ dumb since it’s a Johansson family tradition to overreact to such accusations.
“She’s just different,” I demand.
“Fine, and Hart and Haydee are the same kind of different. Sissy is the queen of different. Just this morning she asked me if we can smoke the weeds in our front yard.”
“And what did you say?”
“I just curtsied since, you know, she’s royalty, and then I walked away.”
Dash always defuses my anger with his humor, but there are a few things he no longer jokes about.
Mainly, he no longer calls our kids mutts. As soon as Byron is born, that word disappears from Dash’s vocabulary. Our baby is beautiful, perfect, and full of promise. Dash refuses to assume the worst about his kid. He doesn’t talk about Byron being a loser or shit running downhill. Dash never assumes Eugenie will be an idiot because all Mullen women are. In fact, he no longer uses the name “Mullen” as an insult. Dash finds value in himself from knowing he helped make these incredible creatures. Topher’s death began the self-improvement process, and Byron’s birth seals the deal.
I used to worry Dash Mullen never intended to be mine. Back then, he viewed himself as a loser chasing an out-of-his-league princess. He refused to fight for me because I deserved more.
No longer a loser, Dash embraces a new outlook on life, and I’m the prize he’ll never let go.
THE END
PROMISE ME HEAVEN QUICKIE
BOOK 3 FROM THE REAPERS MC: ELLSBERG CHAPTER SERIES
Colton Johansson is the heir to the local motorcycle club’s top spot. Unfortunately, his father is nowhere near ready to hand over the leadership reins to his only son. Purposeless and bored with endless hookups, Colton is desperate for something big to happen in his life.
Enter a bat-wielding blonde nursing a grudge against his club brother. Can the spoiled bad boy get his act together in time to save a girl whose only dream is to be loved?
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