JUSTIFIED (Motorcycle Club Romance)

by Bekkwith, Brynn

  The three of us ran up the wooden steps and flew out the back door. It all felt like slow motion and we couldn’t move fast enough. I climbed in the backseat of the Ford and buckled Tuck and I together as Ash peeled out and got us the hell out of there.

  I spun my head around to see that awful house growing smaller in the distance. “How’d you find us?”

  “You gave me that information about the businesses and the streets. I did a search, and then I pinged your phone,” he said, his eyes meeting mine in the rearview mirror. “Lead me straight to you.”

  “I thought it was a Trac Fone?” I asked. “Untraceable?”

  “It was a Trac Fone,” he said. “I put a tracking device into it. And thank God I did.”

  “But LeRoy smashed my phone into pieces,” I said.

  “I pinged it the minute I knew you were taken,” he replied. “Led me to that warehouse. Got there just in time to see them moving you and Tuck to another location.”

  I covered my mouth with my hands. Had he been a minute later, he might not have found us.

  “Is it all over now?” I asked. I stared up at Ash, my hero, as I raked my fingers through my sleeping Tuck’s hair.

  “I think so,” he said. “I think we sent our message loud and clear.”

  “What’d you do to those men?” I asked. “Wait, maybe I don’t want to know…”

  Ash’s fierce eyes squared. “I’m sure you can imagine, Marina.”

  EPILOGUE

  “Mom! Dad!” I yelled as I burst through the doors of my parents’ home.

  “Marina!” my mother came running and wrapped her warm arms around me tight. “Oh, my goodness. I was worried sick.”

  My father stepped out from behind her and placed one strong hand on my shoulder, giving me a half smile. He rarely showed emotion, but I knew he was glad to see us.

  “You did good, kid,” my father said to Ash. “You saved my daughter and my grandson. For that I owe you everything.”

  “Nah,” Ash said. “I just had to protect the two people I love the most in this world.”

  He wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me into him.

  “You mean the three people you love most,” I said to him as I patted my belly.

  “What?” he asked, his eyes wild with excitement. “You’re…?”

  “Yep,” I said with a reserved smile. “Number two is due in May.”

  I patted my belly as Ash pulled me in tight for an enormous bear hug.

  “I’m so happy, Marina,” he said as he cupped my face in his hands and kissed my lips. “For the first time, I feel like we can finally move forward from everything that’s happened. We can live our lives happy and free.”

  I nodded and kissed his delicious lips once more. “I can’t wait for our lives to truly begin.”

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Brynn Bekkwith is a writer with a love of all things romance. She can’t get enough of otherworldly love stories involving protective alpha males, brave heroes, and crazy in love couples.

  When she’s not thinking up crazy stories and slinging words onto pages, she loves to bake (tarts and pies are her specialty), sew, paint, sculpt, scrapbook, and anything else that involves using her hands.

  She lives in New York State on a century farm with her husband, twin tornadoes, and various cute and quirky animals.