Rough & Rowdy (Notorious Devils #1) by Hayley Faiman

Author:Hayley Faiman [Faiman, Hayley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Notorious Devils MC #1
Published: 2016-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

Four days later, Mary-Anne is moved in. She’s just as sweet as I remembered, with her long dark hair and light green eyes. Her body is lithe, but curvy where it counts. She hugs me like she’s missed me these past years, and I hug her back.

“Thank you so much, LeeLee,” she whispers in my ear. I take a step back to see tears shining in her eyes.

“Thank you, too, Mary-Anne. We’re a team now,” I say, smiling at her. She takes my hand and grins back.

“We are. The best team,” she murmurs.

I can’t help but feel happy in this moment.

Mary-Anne is in community college, studying graphic design. She wants to open an online business where she designs wedding invitations and cards.

One night over chocolate cake, our very nutritious dinner, she explains her dream to me. It sounds perfect. A business owner, her own boss.

“And the great thing is, if I decide I don’t want to live here anymore, I can pick up and go and not even lose one client,” she says. I nod.

“That’s so awesome, Mary-Anne. I mean, not many people are able to do that kind of stuff. I’m so happy that you found what you wanted so early on in life,” I sigh.

“What did you want to do?” she asks tentatively. I smile.

“I never had a plan. When we were little and we had to come up with an occupation for career day, my mother wouldn’t hear of it. She hated those assignments. She told Brentlee and I that the best thing we could do for ourselves was to marry a man who could support and care for us. We were to be his wife, the mother of his children, his backbone. I wasn’t ever really allowed to dream,” I confess. Mary-Anne takes my hand in hers.

“You can dream now, LeeLee,” she encourages. I scoff.

“Dreams are for people who have the capability to actually make their dreams a reality. I have a baby coming in just about a month. I have rent to pay, and apparently a new waitressing job as soon as my maternity leave is over. I have a man who won’t claim me—a man who is in prison and refuses to see or speak to me; a man I am so head over heels in love with, I make myself sick; a man who doesn’t feel the same way. No, Mary-Anne, I can’t dream now,” I lay it out. All of it, and Mary-Anne doesn’t hide her sympathy for me.

“Its okay to dream, LeeLee. Your dream doesn’t have to be something unattainable. It can be having a healthy and happy baby. It can be working shit out with Fury. It can be whatever you want it to be,” she says. I take a deep breath, letting it cleanse me.

“I want that. A healthy, happy baby, and Fury. I want it all, marriage and happiness and a family,” I whisper wiping the tears that begin to fall as I stand up to head to bed.

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