The Price of Mike's Lies

lood. Mike's face, twisted with a rage I'd never seen, loomed over me. His boot

upright in bed,

quilt. Sunlight streamed t

round. The baby

It was a memory. A

t t

y. The day the Vultures MC descended

et hitting the cold wooden floor.

For her. For Lila. Bec

t this

y jeans and a shir

m. I had to s

ool, the desert sunrise painting the sky in

he center of our small, dusty town. I ran

e crank and

rning quiet, a piercing shriek that echo

creaked. Sleepy, con

rs. Henderson called from h

yelled, my voice hoarse. "We have

evacuation. It was always parked by the old gene

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ground where it a

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town, stumbled towards me, her

it's gone! M

ha

Jake, and most of the Vigilance Committee

t me like ph

I managed to ask, dre

. Out at the old Devil's Canyon mine. He said... he said you were

n. Miles out.

e'd left us all

he was just out on a joyride. This time, he

ces gathering around me – wo

gh last time. This time, he'd made sure

in the distance, I thought I hea

ust the blood pou