I left Harlan Creek at eighteen with a duffel bag, forty-seven dollars, and the taste of a girl I didn't deserve.
I didn't say goodbye. I pressed my hand against her window in the dark and walked to the highway and told myself I'd come back.
I didn't. Not for ten years.
Now the club's sent me home. She's still here — running her grandmother's diner on stubbornness and seventeen-hour days. She pours my coffee like I'm a stranger. Greets me like I'm nobody. Looks at me with those steady brown eyes and gives me nothing.
She's the strongest woman I've ever known. And someone is trying to take everything she's built.
I came back to earn my patch. I stayed because she's the only thing that ever felt like home.
She hasn't forgiven me. I haven't earned it.
But I'm not leaving again — even if she never lets me back in.
Genre: New Adult Romance
I didn't say goodbye. I pressed my hand against her window in the dark and walked to the highway and told myself I'd come back.
I didn't. Not for ten years.
Now the club's sent me home. She's still here — running her grandmother's diner on stubbornness and seventeen-hour days. She pours my coffee like I'm a stranger. Greets me like I'm nobody. Looks at me with those steady brown eyes and gives me nothing.
She's the strongest woman I've ever known. And someone is trying to take everything she's built.
I came back to earn my patch. I stayed because she's the only thing that ever felt like home.
She hasn't forgiven me. I haven't earned it.
But I'm not leaving again — even if she never lets me back in.
Genre: New Adult Romance