Caution to the Wind: An Age Gap MC Romance by Giana Darling

Author:Giana Darling [Darling, Giana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Giana Darling Publishing
Published: 2023-11-27T08:00:00+00:00

AXE-MAN

Entrance Bay Marina occupied the entire right side of the bay and was filled year-round with an assortment of fishin’ boats, small and large sailin’ vessels, and big to enormous yachts. It was a hodgepodge like Entrance was a hodgepodge, different social-economic groups co-existin’ but rarely minglin’. It made the marina quaint, and the shingled, faded red and navy-blue buildings clustered at its mouth added to the aesthetic. Eugene, Z’s cousin, had a huge fishin’ boat docked in the shadowy pier near the sheer cliffside overlookin’ the ocean.

It was the perfect place to meet Jiang and his lot. Public enough to discourage violence, but private enough to discourage noisy passersby from stickin’ their noses in.

Zeus, Bat, King, and Wrath were with me on the boat while Priest and Nova waited at the top of the rampway to pat down our guests when they arrived.

Curtains was hidden in the captain’s hold on the ship with his computer, ready to start trackin’ the bastards as soon as one of us could slip a trackin’ device on them.

“You look rough, brother,” King pointed out without lookin’ up from his leather-bound notebook. Kid was always writin’ in it, cover folded back, book propped on his knee as he scribbled with a stubby pencil he often wore behind one ear. “Somethin’ stop you from gettin’ a good sleep? ’Cause I’m the one with a baby, and I look a helluva lot better than you.”

“You’re just better lookin’,” I deadpanned.

King flashed me his movie-star smile. “Ain’t that the truth. Still, you gotta take care’a yourself, man. For Cleo’s sake at least.”

“You don’t think I’m tryin’?” I demanded. “Triad comes to town on the heels of that fuckin’ psychopath, and you think I can get a wink of sleep?”

It was that and more. Not that I’d reveal anythin’ to King, but my altercation with Mei the night before had left me feelin’ outta step.

I tried not to let myself think about Mei. If I did, my thoughts splintered along the divide of our past—the girl I’d known before prison and the girl who put me there.

The girl from before had been a fixture in my daily life for years. We’d been bonded by the trauma of losin’ Kate and by the loneliness we both felt bein’ different than the people we tried so hard to fit in with. There’d always been this fundamental, elemental understandin’ between us. Like we had the same language written in our blood and bones.

I loved Cleo more than anythin’ in this world, and I’d loved Kate and Lin, felt that I owed them everythin’. But I’d never felt so understood as I had in those late-night hours sketchin’ and shootin’ the shit with Mei in my little kitchen.

But that was gone.

Now, eight years and a shit ton of wrongdoin’ separated us irrevocably. Mentally, I knew she couldn’t be trusted. I’d gone to fuckin’ prison for her, done it, if not happily, then righteously, proudly, ’cause I’d valued her and her future more than my own.

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