Originals Ride: Hellions Motorcycle Club (Hellions Ride Book 8) (18 page)

Riding free, I press on, knowing Claudia will always have my heart, and the future we wished for is right in front of me.

I’ve loved, and I’ve lost. I’ve conquered, I’ve killed, and I’ve barely survived. Everything has been from one up to the next down, but I’ve never done it without my woman in my heart and my brothers at my side.

The Hellions will always ride together with life, love, and the freedom of the road to soothe everything that burdens the soul. Ride until I die, love with all I have until I have no more, and damn sure remember family is a never ending circle of love and loyalty that lasts a lifetime when you get it right.

~Roundman~

The gray stone is damp with morning dew. The flowers droop in the weight of the atmosphere.

Claudia Reklinger

Devoted wife and mother

I trace the letters as I talk to the air around me. “My best friend, my life, my wife, my love, ride until I die. Baby, it’s you.”

Squatting in front of the tombstone, I pinch the bridge of my nose, fighting back emotions. I’m a motherfucking Hellion, yet the minute I let my mind go back to what I once had, I turn to mush.

“Doll, she’s bringing BW to visit. God, he’s a handful. Fearless, baby, fucking fearless. He has your hair and Tripp’s eyes. Doll hasn’t gotten it cut yet, so it frames his chubby face with your blonde curls. He runs our girl ragged. Makes me think of you when Doll was little.”

I smile, thinking back to our tiny girl coming home, all bundled in red because Dia hated pink. My two girls were inseparable. Dia was an amazing mother.

Then the cancer came. Then the cancer won.

“Our time together was cut too short.” Over twenty years later, I want to break shit just thinking about it.

It took time—years to be honest—for me to get the shop and give my girl my last name. We were young and thought we could rule the world. And in the end, I did my best to give that to her. We may not have conquered cancer, but we had the Hellions, and Haywood’s Landing was ours.

“Family isn’t always blood. We taught our daughter that. With Tripp having his club, being with Shooter and his family, along with Rex and his ol’ lady, our girl understands family isn’t always blood.”

I blow out a breath. “Damn, Dia, she’s beautiful. Our Doll is all grown up. She’s as fierce as you and loyal. We should have made it her middle name. It’s a part of who she is.”

I close my eyes and breathe deeply. “You once told me it takes a club. You were right. It has taken a club to get us all this far. I wish you were here to see it, baby. Time’s comin’, Dia. The time for change is here. The legacy of the Hellions needs to be passed on.”

I lay the flowers against the cement tombstone. “I need you to guide me. Is our baby girl ready to be an ol’ lady to the entire club, not just one charter? Tripp can handle it, even if he doesn’t realize it yet. Danza even said so. Getting old isn’t an easy thing to face.”

On a sigh, I touch my fingers to my lips then press them to the D on the stone. “Love you, Dia.” In my mind, I can still hear her voice,
“Love you always, Blaine.”

Climbing on my bike, I ride out. I hit the open road and don’t look back.

After I stop for gas, I keep riding until I find myself at the shack in Deals Gap, North Carolina.

As the sun sets, I make the start of the Dragon’s Tail ride. For a moment, I swear I can feel her arms around me and her hair whipping against my face. I take each curve leisurely as I allow my mind to go back in time. All the years I took this ride with my wife behind me flash through like a movie playing on repeat. The many times I took this ride to patch another man into the club I created.

One by one, each of us has made this same ride before calling ourselves a true brother to the Hellions MC. Today, I take this ride before I go see my daughter and her man to pass on the legacy to the next generation.

From beginning to end, this is how the Hellions ride, and this is how the legacy will survive. With a twist of my throttle, I ride on, knowing what’s to come with complete clarity for the first time in a long time.

The End…

Until the next ride.

Final Ride
will be the last book in the Hellions Ride series, coming November 22, 2016.

About the Author

USA Today
bestselling author Chelsea Camaron is a small town Carolina girl with a big imagination. She’s a wife and mom, chasing her dreams. She writes contemporary romance, erotic suspense, and psychological thrillers. She loves to write about blue-collar men who have real problems with a fictional twist. From mechanics to bikers to oil riggers to smokejumpers, bar owners, and beyond she loves a strong hero who works hard and plays harder.

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Other works by Chelsea Camaron

Love and Repair Series:

Crash and Burn

Restore My Heart

Salvaged

Full Throttle

Beyond Repair

Stalled

Box Set Available

Hellions Ride Series
:

One Ride

Forever Ride

Merciless Ride

Eternal Ride

Innocent Ride

Simple Ride

Heated Ride

Ride with Me (Hellions MC and Ravage MC Duel with Ryan Michele)

Originals Ride

Final Ride (coming late 2016)

Roughneck Series:

Maverick

Heath

Lance

Box Set Available

Stand Alone Thriller – Stay

Devil’s Due MC Series:

In The Red

Below The Line (coming 2016)

The following series are co-written

The Fire Inside Series:

(co-written by Theresa Marguerite Hewitt)

Kale

Regulators MC Series:

(co-written by Jessie Lane)

Ice

Hammer

Coal (coming late 2016)

Caldwell Brothers Series

(co-written by USA Today Bestselling Author MJ Fields)

Hendrix

Morrison

Jagger

Stand Alone Romance – (
co-written by USA Today Bestselling Author MJ Fields)

Visibly Broken (coming September 20, 2016)

Everything I have never had is right in front of me. Family, it’s mine for the taking. For the first time in my life, I found stability in the Hellions MC. From the ground up, I’ve been loyal to my brothers.

Now the time has come when I may have to choose between the family I’ve never known or the club I’ve built and given my all to.

Richard ‘Frisco’ Billings is the California kid who rode into Haywood’s Landing when the Hellions were needing an extra man. As an original, he’s been with the club from day one. After growing up with no real place to call home, he’s found solid ground.

All of it crashed around him when secrets were revealed, and he found out he missed all the formative years with his daughter being raised in an enemy’s club.

Amy Mitchell was lost her whole life until she was found by the Hellions MC in a bad situation with Felix Delatorre. She spent years with the club, rebuilding her life and finding a place where she could belong.

When a new young woman comes into the home she has with Frisco, will she still fit into his world? Will Frisco find a way to make everything fit together? Will this be his final ride with the Hellions as life takes him down a different road?

Catch up with all your favorite couples as every secret finds its way out of the dark and new things are revealed, changing the club forever. This is the final ride for the Hellions MC as we know it.

©2016 Chelsea Camaron

The event that shook one small town to its core was never solved. The domino effect of one person’s crime going unpunished is beyond measure.

He’s no saint.

Dover ‘Collector’ Ragnes rides with only five brothers at his back. Nomads with no place to call home, they never stay in one place too long. Together, they are the Devil’s Due MC, and their only purpose is to serve justice their way for unsolved crimes everywhere they go.

She’s not afraid to call herself a sinner.

Emerson Flint still remembers the loss of her elementary school best friend. She is all grown up, but the memories still haunt her of the missing girl. Surrounding herself with men at the tattoo shop, she never questions her safety. Her life is her art. Her canvas is the skin of others.