Ride Or Die #2 Blurb
Love can either destroy you, or bring you back to life.
Dom, Casa & Harlow
1992
Casa only cares for two things in this life: his club—the Devil’s Highwaymen—and sex. That is until he meets Harlow. She’s feisty, passionate, and doesn’t fall for his usual charms. She’s perfect for him…but she belongs to someone else.
Harlow is broken; she has been for a long time. With nowhere to go, and worse, no one to go to, she’s become a clubslut for the West Side Bangers. That is until a chance meeting with her old friend and former lover, Dom, brings their worlds colliding together once more.
Dom is on a one-way train to hell; the guilt of losing his soulmate is killing him—but he can’t tell anyone about it. That is until he finds a brief respite from his suffering in the form of Harlow, the woman whose heart he once broke.
With all three set on their own self-destructive paths, they’ve only got one chance to make things right—but only if they can learn to forgive, and then to love again.
The funny thing about love is, it’s both painless and painful, and not even death can end the suffering.
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“Fine.” I slung my backpack over both shoulders and climbed on behind him, wrapping my arms around his waist tightly so I didn’t fall off. He smelled good, like smoke and oil and something musky. I hadn’t noticed before because I’d been too upset, but I couldn’t miss it now, and my nipples grew hard. I just hoped he couldn’t feel them through the back of his cut. I rested my cheek against his back, breathing him in. Finally feeling safe.
“Gonna have to hold on tighter than that, girl,” Casa breathed out. He reach down and took my hands before pulling my arms tighter around him. “That’s better.”
Was it? I wondered. Because I could hardly breath being this close to him. And not because of how tightly he was forcing me to hold on, but because being this close to Casa was like walking into a room where all the air had been sucked out of. Because Casa, and his beautiful dirty mouth, had stolen the air from it.
Casa was a dangerous man. Not just to the people he chose to cut down for the love and loyalty of his club, but to my heart. It should be frightening; to be this close to someone so dangerous, yet I was not afraid of him. He made me feel alive in the most beautiful way, making my skin prickle with excitement every time he spoke. Or worse, when he touched me.
Because with Casa, there was never an innocent touch.
“Gonna have to say the magic words, H,” Casa said with a chuckle.
“Magic words?” I asked, pulling my face away from his back to peer round and up into his face. “What magic words?”
He tutted. “They wouldn’t be magic if everyone knew them, H.”
“Well then how will I…” An idea came to me and I laughed. “Final call for Mars?” I asked hesitantly.
“There you go,” he said with another chuckle. I felt his stomach muscles move under my grip as he laughed which sent a delicious shiver straight to my core, my nipples hardening even more.
“You know that’s a ridiculous password, right?” I smirked.
“Magic words,” he corrected.
“Whatever.”
He smirked back. “Told you, girl, you’re from Mars or some shit because there ain’t nothing normal about you, or this situation.”
And the way he looked at me, made it clear that this was all new to him too. For a split second, his façade fell away and his gaze spoke more truths than I’d ever been told in my lifetime. I blinked and it was gone.
“Gonna ride now, H.” He winked. “You good?”
I nodded because with Casa, I was more than good. I pressed my face against his back and squeezed him close as he pulled out of the parking lot and the world passed us by in a blur.
© Copyright Claire C. Riley 2017
“Fine.” I slung my backpack over both shoulders and climbed on behind him, wrapping my arms around his waist tightly so I didn’t fall off. He smelled good, like smoke and oil and something musky. I hadn’t noticed before because I’d been too upset, but I couldn’t miss it now, and my nipples grew hard. I just hoped he couldn’t feel them through the back of his cut. I rested my cheek against his back, breathing him in. Finally feeling safe.
“Gonna have to hold on tighter than that, girl,” Casa breathed out. He reach down and took my hands before pulling my arms tighter around him. “That’s better.”
Was it? I wondered. Because I could hardly breath being this close to him. And not because of how tightly he was forcing me to hold on, but because being this close to Casa was like walking into a room where all the air had been sucked out of. Because Casa, and his beautiful dirty mouth, had stolen the air from it.
Casa was a dangerous man. Not just to the people he chose to cut down for the love and loyalty of his club, but to my heart. It should be frightening; to be this close to someone so dangerous, yet I was not afraid of him. He made me feel alive in the most beautiful way, making my skin prickle with excitement every time he spoke. Or worse, when he touched me.
Because with Casa, there was never an innocent touch.
“Gonna have to say the magic words, H,” Casa said with a chuckle.
“Magic words?” I asked, pulling my face away from his back to peer round and up into his face. “What magic words?”
He tutted. “They wouldn’t be magic if everyone knew them, H.”
“Well then how will I…” An idea came to me and I laughed. “Final call for Mars?” I asked hesitantly.
“There you go,” he said with another chuckle. I felt his stomach muscles move under my grip as he laughed which sent a delicious shiver straight to my core, my nipples hardening even more.
“You know that’s a ridiculous password, right?” I smirked.
“Magic words,” he corrected.
“Whatever.”
He smirked back. “Told you, girl, you’re from Mars or some shit because there ain’t nothing normal about you, or this situation.”
And the way he looked at me, made it clear that this was all new to him too. For a split second, his façade fell away and his gaze spoke more truths than I’d ever been told in my lifetime. I blinked and it was gone.
“Gonna ride now, H.” He winked. “You good?”
I nodded because with Casa, I was more than good. I pressed my face against his back and squeezed him close as he pulled out of the parking lot and the world passed us by in a blur.
© Copyright Claire C. Riley 2017
Meet the characters
Harlow Bernadette McQueen aka 'Red' or 'H'
Had her heart broken by Dom when
she was younger & then kicked out of her home by her parents, she wandered for a while until she ended up at the West Side Bangers Club House working as a club slut... until she bumped into Dom again. She's shy yet mouthy and wilful when she's nervous and is desperate to be loved. But she's done being walked all over by the men in her life. |
Casanovah Hale
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Dominique Andre' Durrand aka 'Dom'
Is in a very bad place when he bumps into Harlow again. Full of guilt and remorse for his actions he tries to help her, in the hopes that maybe she can help ease some of his own suffering.
It's not long before he remembers the relationship that they used to have and he yearns for that kind of life again. Is Harlow is his second chance at happiness? |
'Butch' Cassidy Hardy
Lived for three things; his brother, his club and his best friend Dom.
Always calm under pressure and someone you could really on. Held his cards very close to his chest. Charlie
Riders Old Lady. Wild with a furious temper and a heart of gold. Most men are afraid of her harsh tongue and sharp wit. She'd do anything for the other Old Ladies.
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Jesse James Hardy
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Axle
Used to be in a band playing guitar, that's where he met his old lady - River. He quit the band when River got pregnant and settled into club life so that he could be closer to home for his family.
Taught Shooter how to fight when he was a kid and even now they still spar together. 'Sketch'
Nomad wanting to settle down and make some roots. Has gotten himself an Old Lady and now she's pregnant. Dedicated to the club and his president 100% dedicated to his old lady 110%
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Ride or Die #2 playlist
Playlist can also be found ready to download on Apple Music!
Small Things - Ben Howard
Holocene - Bon Iver
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
Green Light - Lorde
Way Down We Go - Kaleo
Love & Hate - Arrow Benjamin
Slip Kid (feat Franky Perez) - Anvil
I Only Lie When I love You - Royal Blood
A Violent Noise - The XX
Tell Me How - Paramore
Wolves of Winter - Biffy Clyro
Amsterdam - Nothing But Thieves
ON & On - Longpigs
(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano - Sampha
Still Breathing - Green day
Shelter From the Storm - Bob Dylan
Crash This Train - Joshua James
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Fire Away - Chris Stapleton
Beam Me Up - Pink
The One That Got Away - The Civil Wars
Carry you - Jeffrey James
Orange Sky - Alexi Murdoch
Small Things - Ben Howard
Holocene - Bon Iver
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
Green Light - Lorde
Way Down We Go - Kaleo
Love & Hate - Arrow Benjamin
Slip Kid (feat Franky Perez) - Anvil
I Only Lie When I love You - Royal Blood
A Violent Noise - The XX
Tell Me How - Paramore
Wolves of Winter - Biffy Clyro
Amsterdam - Nothing But Thieves
ON & On - Longpigs
(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano - Sampha
Still Breathing - Green day
Shelter From the Storm - Bob Dylan
Crash This Train - Joshua James
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Fire Away - Chris Stapleton
Beam Me Up - Pink
The One That Got Away - The Civil Wars
Carry you - Jeffrey James
Orange Sky - Alexi Murdoch