Along for the Ride (Ride or Die Romances)

by Lauren Biel

“What would you do for something to take the edge off?”

Anything. I’d do fucking anything.

I’ve spent my whole life respecting myself. Hell, my self-respect is what caused such a rift between me and my mother. But I can let that go. It hasn’t gotten me anywhere good so far.

I can still hear the sound of Karson’s voice as he sat in a wooden box and sang like a canary to cover his own ass. I encouraged him to do it, but it still fucking sucked. He’s never been right in the head, and serving time in a cage would have resulted in an implosion of his mind. I still hadn’t forgiven him for fucking my wife, but I had to protect him.

Like grizzlies in the forest, we make contact to get laid or make a kill. You don’t see us until it’s too late. Our way of thinking is unique, and I’ve only met one man whose brain worked like mine and Karson’s. He was my brief cellmate, Lexington Rowe.

“What’d you do, Lex?”

“Good old-fashioned payback,”

“Violence isn’t the...

“Violence is always th...

I’ve never felt such a close understanding like that with anyone...

I don’t have a choice, though. He’s an asshole, a liability, a snake, and a major piece of shit. But he’s also my brother.

I don’t think Karson will ever take anything seriously. Not my life and not his own.

Even if I somehow wanted to belong in some weird, doped-up harem, Mickey would find me and make sure the saying “if I can’t have you, no one can” rings true. Being the sole recipient of someone’s affection isn’t much better, but better the devil I know than the devil I don’t know.

I’m a wild and unhinged thing, and like any wild thing, he has to cut me loose sometimes.

Skim off some of the generational wealth for ourselves since we sure as fuck never had any.

It was either take what you want or do without, and we got sick of doing without real quick.